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re: Hoods that were up-and-coming 10 years ago but are still shitholes
Posted on 7/11/21 at 2:52 am to DiamondDog
Posted on 7/11/21 at 2:52 am to DiamondDog
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I think I got the streets mixed up
I figured as much. Airline runs N/S and Florida runs E/W
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Posted on 7/11/21 at 6:49 am to LSUGrad9295
Bocage will be the next major area to go bad.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 6:50 am to yaboidarrell
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Gardere is still a shithole but hasn't it quieted down recently?
Not really. It may be less gang warfare, but the hood is still raiding homes in the area and searching cars with the occasional shooting
Posted on 7/11/21 at 7:10 am to yaboidarrell
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There's been talk about gentrifying the area in between LSU and downtown (the Bottoms) for years but it's still the same old shithole.
I would call it slightly better than10 years ago
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:01 am to Dire Wolf
St. Roch area. My brother has a friend who is an upscale real estate agent in NOLA and a few years back I run into him at a wedding and he tells me he is living in St.Roch between Claiborne and St. Claude. I told him he was insane. He shoots back that it is a good investment and then tells me with some kind of badge of honor that " I've been mugged 3x in different areas of the city that I have lived " I told him he needed to have his head examined. I went to H.S. in the 9th ward at H.C. I knew the area well as I did St. Roch because I knew Tony Lama and his seafood market....even worked there for a summer it is a shithole. Long and short though, this urban pioneer got his arse to City Park Avenue are about 3 months later as his wife finds out she is pregnant and she is not going to live in a war zone.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:05 am to yaboidarrell
The EBRSO substation opening in Gardere has sent the cockroaches scattering into nearby neighborhoods instead. Ask me how I know.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:32 am to Kafka
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I remember Gardere. The nice Gardere
Yeah, early 1980's I moved back to Baton Rouge to take a job down in Geismar. There was nothing on highway 30 and it was a quick, easy drive. The duplexes on Keel and Skysail were brand new and a bargain for the rent. It was mostly young professionals and some LSU students. Absolutely safe. The only problem was the odor from the sewer plant when the wind was out of the west. It was starting to go downhill some by 1987, owners were desperate to keep tenants and the rent price started coming down but it still wasn't too bad. Flash forward to 2005 when I've been out of state for more than a decade. I decided to drive the old neighborhood just to see. It was absolutely shocking. Boarded up buildings and abandoned cars and trash in the streets. A police car pulled me over and asked what I was doing there. When I told him I'd lived there he looked at me skeptically and told me I shouldn't come back again.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:35 am to Tigris
I just randomly dropped into that Keel / Skysail area in Google Street View and there's a cop there looking around on the ground for shell casings or something.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:36 am to KiwiHead
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. I went to H.S. in the 9th ward at H.C.
Same, and I’ve driven down Claiborne and st Claude enough times in my life to know I don’t want to live anywhere near either street
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:46 am to fallguy_1978
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but I'm pretty sure the Bottoms has been a shithole for a long time.
It was basically built as the original hood for BR because the sort of hilliness of the streets was not seen as desirable. I always thought it looked quite charming the way the streets sloped down the little bluff, though, and sad that it wasn’t likely seen as such by more affluent types back in the day.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:48 am to yaboidarrell
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St. Roch (New Orleans
Need quotation marks on the "up and coming."
Despite any hopeful buzz, St Roch has not ticked in a positive direction in the last 20 years. A few white gutter punks moved in after Katrina. If anything, that made it worse.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:15 am to fallguy_1978
Came to Baton Rouge around 1980 for a h.s. buddy's wedding to a gal who grew up in Broadmoor, we attended a few parties given by friends of her family for two nights before the bachelor party. One was at the home of the owner of the Ford dealership and lived on Sherwood, definitely not poor.
Ranch style brick homes were all the rage in the 50's and 60's.
Ranch style brick homes were all the rage in the 50's and 60's.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:20 am to Kafka
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Is it once more time for my wistfully nostalgic essay on the old Gardere?
Girlfriend then/wife now (no pics, think Audrey Hepburn) lived off Bayou Fountain in late 80s while in undergrad at LSU.
Friends of mine lived in an apartment off GSRI close to the traffic light at Gardere.
You described it perfectly.
Gardere/Bayou Fountai was students and blue collar middle class peeps.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:33 am to yaboidarrell
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:33 am to KiwiHead
St. Roch/St. Claude was a good investment because out of towners from cities like NYC were buying there due dirt cheap even at inflated prices.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:33 am to yaboidarrell
Shreveport has a Bottoms neighborhood. It is largely abandoned now, but was plagued by crime and blight for over 100 years.
That’s the only hope for Baton Rouge’s Bottoms. All the crappy houses and buildings will eventually deteriorate to the point the neighborhood is uninhabitable, and people will abandon the area, then it will become prime real estate.
That’s the only hope for Baton Rouge’s Bottoms. All the crappy houses and buildings will eventually deteriorate to the point the neighborhood is uninhabitable, and people will abandon the area, then it will become prime real estate.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:37 am to fallguy_1978
California developers dropped a lot of money buying up apartment complexes in Gardere right after Katrina. Within a few years they had been stripped of copper wiring, toilets and sinks even if occupied.
Flooded like a mofo in 2001 from an early season tropical storm. Since then, I scratch my head when I see people buying homes anywhere between Highland and the river, especially where there are well known sand boils on years the river is high.
Flooded like a mofo in 2001 from an early season tropical storm. Since then, I scratch my head when I see people buying homes anywhere between Highland and the river, especially where there are well known sand boils on years the river is high.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:42 am to JimmyMcGoo
quote:This is about current shitholes, not 15 years in the future. Keep building apartment complexes and we'll be lamenting the demise of the Northshore in 2035.
Mandeville
Covington
Madisonville
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:46 am to Kafka
quote:Preach
"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.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:47 am to fallguy_1978
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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
Yeah, because he was buying shitty weed and baking soda mixed with exlax in a little baggie.
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