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Hoods that were up-and-coming 10 years ago but are still shitholes
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:21 pm
St. Roch (New Orleans)
The Bottom (Baton Rouge)
Highland/Stoner Hill (Shreveport)
The Bottom (Baton Rouge)
Highland/Stoner Hill (Shreveport)
This post was edited on 7/11/21 at 12:35 pm
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Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:23 pm to yaboidarrell
Baton Rouge
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:25 pm to yaboidarrell
Louisiana
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:29 pm to yaboidarrell
When was the Bottoms ever up and coming? My mom lived in mall city in the 60s and she said it was fine but I'm pretty sure the Bottoms has been a shithole for a long time.
Gardere wasn't that bad in the early /mid 90s.
Gardere wasn't that bad in the early /mid 90s.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:32 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:
Gardere
My buddy and I were looking for an apartment right after college in 2007. We had a line on a place that was two bedrooms and all utilities included. It was newly remodeled. All in $580 a month. Money.
Call up my mom to tell her we found the place. It’s down Gardere and hang a left.
She told me right quick not to sign anything and come home. Come to find out the remodel was because the place got shot up.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:33 pm to fallguy_1978
There's been talk about gentrifying the area in between LSU and downtown (the Bottom) for years but it's still the same old shithole.
This post was edited on 7/11/21 at 5:23 pm
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:34 pm to DiamondDog
Gardere is still a shithole but hasn't it quieted down recently?
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:36 pm to DiamondDog
I had friends I used to hang out with that lived on GSRI and Blvd de Province in the 90s. They were on the decline then but seeing a 19 yr old white boy wasn't that usual either
This post was edited on 7/10/21 at 11:37 pm
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:37 pm to yaboidarrell
Graduated McKinley in the early 90s. Locals there call it The Bottom, not Bottoms. While it is a pretty run down looking place, there are FAR worse places in BR than there. Pretty much anything in 70805 zip, the avenues in scotlandville, Mall City, Belaire, Sherwood commons, and Gardere are much worse. Gentrification is steadily taking care of the Bottom.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:37 pm to DiamondDog
Is it once more time for my wistfully nostalgic essay on the old Gardere?
Usually, it takes a grass roots mandate to make me overcome my innate modesty and repost it. But just this once I will make an exception:
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I remember Gardere. The nice Gardere, with affordable housing for LSU students and young married couples in a well-maintained, safe neighborhood.
In the late '80s I lived near Gardere. It was perfect for students -- on the bus line to LSU, and there was a Piggly Wiggly grocery store at the corner of Gardere and Burbank. It was especially good for student couples struggling to work and attend school. I visited people there a few times -- I don't recall any complaints. And of course any time I went there I always felt perfectly SAFE.
In the early 90s I left BR and didn't return for about 10 years. When I came back I was talking with a friend and the subject of Gardere came up. Remembering it from my student days, I talked about what a nice student area it was.
"Are you kidding?", he said, and proceeded to tell me what had happened to the area, including a friend of his from church going there to minister -- and getting stabbed.
Later we were driving around and came to the intersection of Burbank and Gardere.
What had been a great place -- affordable, safe, on the LSU bus line and with a Piggly Wiggly for convenient shopping -- was now a slum. The Piggly Wiggly was gone and the shopping center deserted.
I couldn't believe my eyes. I asked my friend what the hell had happened.
He replied simply, "Section 8".
Usually, it takes a grass roots mandate to make me overcome my innate modesty and repost it. But just this once I will make an exception:
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I remember Gardere. The nice Gardere, with affordable housing for LSU students and young married couples in a well-maintained, safe neighborhood.
In the late '80s I lived near Gardere. It was perfect for students -- on the bus line to LSU, and there was a Piggly Wiggly grocery store at the corner of Gardere and Burbank. It was especially good for student couples struggling to work and attend school. I visited people there a few times -- I don't recall any complaints. And of course any time I went there I always felt perfectly SAFE.
In the early 90s I left BR and didn't return for about 10 years. When I came back I was talking with a friend and the subject of Gardere came up. Remembering it from my student days, I talked about what a nice student area it was.
"Are you kidding?", he said, and proceeded to tell me what had happened to the area, including a friend of his from church going there to minister -- and getting stabbed.
Later we were driving around and came to the intersection of Burbank and Gardere.
What had been a great place -- affordable, safe, on the LSU bus line and with a Piggly Wiggly for convenient shopping -- was now a slum. The Piggly Wiggly was gone and the shopping center deserted.
I couldn't believe my eyes. I asked my friend what the hell had happened.
He replied simply, "Section 8".
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:45 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:
GSRI
This is exact where the apt was. I think Gardere is just the area.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:46 pm to Kafka
That section of Sherwood between I-12 and Old Hammond was a wonderful area of BR commerce in the 80s. Looks like Beirut now
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:50 pm to fallguy_1978
I always enjoyed driving North on Florida Blvd at night to see some sketch crap. Went to an old bar out there once. Weird vibe. No street lights.
Texas Club is the only thing I remember being on Florida we ever went to. It was where all my friends who didn’t go to college hung out when they went to BR.
Texas Club is the only thing I remember being on Florida we ever went to. It was where all my friends who didn’t go to college hung out when they went to BR.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:54 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:I remember visiting the house of a friend's brother in Broadmoor when I was at LSU c. '88. I thought I was in Beverly Hills.
That section of Sherwood between I-12 and Old Hammond was a wonderful area of BR commerce in the 80s.
This post was edited on 7/10/21 at 11:56 pm
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:57 pm to yaboidarrell
Mandeville
Covington
Madisonville
Covington
Madisonville
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:58 pm to DiamondDog
quote:
I always enjoyed driving North on Florida Blvd
My compass tells me this never happened.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:58 pm to JimmyMcGoo
quote:.5/10
Mandeville
Covington
Madisonville
Posted on 7/10/21 at 11:58 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:
That section of Sherwood between I-12 and Old Hammond was a wonderful area of BR commerce in the 80s. Looks like Beirut now
It’s awful how rundown it looks these days. It was looking rough a decade ago but it has exponentially gotten more rundown the past couple of years.
Coursey and Jones Creek area are also showing their age and look rundown
This post was edited on 7/11/21 at 12:00 am
Posted on 7/11/21 at 12:22 am to LSUGrad9295
I think I got the streets mixed up
This post was edited on 7/11/21 at 12:24 am
Posted on 7/11/21 at 12:45 am to DiamondDog
quote:
Texas Club is the only thing I remember being on Florida we ever went to.
Where are you from and/or how old are you? Florida Blvd was everything in BR.
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