Laplace looks a lot different

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was it ever something more than a place were people stopped to piss going in/out of new orleans?

inb4 culcha.

Tons of description. 10/10 would read again.

You mean there are more black people than you remember?

No Airline Motors, Roussel's, and others. The ups and downs of the petrochemical industry eventually killed a lot of that area's unique identity.

It’s because they closed the shoneys

Don’t do it.

New Orleans West

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The ups and downs of the petrochemical industry eventually killed a lot of that area's unique identity.

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Exactly what happened, as well as people attaining higher education, and moving to cities for work and the surrounding towns in the parish eventually became run down. Of 10 aunts and uncles of mine raised in that area, only one lives there, and they commute to NO for work. It’s sad really. The other family left there work in family run businesses that has been around for a really long time, or at plants. I remember when it was a lot better place to live and raise a family.