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re: New Orleans in the past
Posted on 2/22/20 at 10:20 am to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 2/22/20 at 10:20 am to DavidTheGnome
New Orleans looks a lot safer back then
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Posted on 2/22/20 at 10:21 am to el Gaucho
Looks can be deceiving. It really wasn’t that much safe than it is today.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 10:29 am to el Gaucho
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New Orleans looks a lot safer back then
That's because they didn't have the corona virus back then.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 10:33 am to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 2/22/20 at 10:39 am to Crow Pie
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Not sure what you're talkin about. My great-uncle started lucky dog. They were Italian
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Could be my grandfather*..he started a successful career by selling "off a cart" to the vendors in the French Market. In fact my dad, and all the siblings, were born from 1918 to 1925 in their home in the 900 block of Chartres St.
*Legal immigrant from Italy via Ellis Island in 1908
You guys cousins or something?
Posted on 2/22/20 at 12:24 pm to X123F45
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This thread reminds me of how poor my family was only three generations ago.
When those balls were going on, my great grandfathers were struggling to feed 8,11,6,9 kids respectively. Wild to think about. They had no running water.
Not even ten years later, when the country was starving... They started doing alright.
The standard of living was so much different back then and also varied by location. For example, the house my dad and his three siblings were raised in was so freaking tiny, living room, 2 bedrooms and kitchen, and not sure if it had running water, yet my grandfather owned a dairy farm, plenty of land and about 40 head of cattle.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 12:36 pm to nola000
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Not sure what you're talkin about
I was making all of mine up.
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My great-uncle started lucky dog. They were Italian
You're pretty good at this too.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 12:44 pm to nola000
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Not sure what you're talkin about. My great-uncle started lucky dog.
just curious, do you ever wonder “what if” your family never sold the business ? I’m friends with the current owners
Posted on 2/22/20 at 2:10 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 2/22/20 at 2:11 pm to JackieTreehorn
Man that little girl/young woman has some huge feet 
This post was edited on 2/22/20 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 2/22/20 at 2:39 pm to Havoc
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The standard of living was so much different back then and also varied by location. For example, the house my dad and his three siblings were raised in was so freaking tiny, living room, 2 bedrooms and kitchen, and not sure if it had running water, yet my grandfather owned a dairy farm, plenty of land and about 40 head of cattle.
In the late '20s my grandpa bought his first house in Morgan City for $1200. It's still there, in the old part of Morgan City, two streets over from the river.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 6:57 pm to doublecutter
Probably worth a little more now.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 9:15 pm to Hangit
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You're pretty good at this too
Lol.
Nah. I never bullshite.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 9:19 pm to Got Blaze
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just curious, do you ever wonder “what if” your family never sold the business ? I’m friends with the current owners
If you're talking about the money, no. That money would have never reached me. They had owned businesses before. It was just really wasn't for them i guess. They owned a grocery store on Camp Street that kept getting robbed until they finally gave it up and moved out to River Ridge. One of the Loyacanos became a famous screenwriter and move to California. Business ownership isn't for everyone.
Im assuming youre talking about the Talbots?
This post was edited on 2/23/20 at 7:40 am
Posted on 2/22/20 at 9:40 pm to DavidTheGnome
Good stuff.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 11:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
The St. Charles Hotel and the French Opera House were some boss buildings. Nola has lost a lot of great buildings over time. But at least we kept a lot of them, more than most.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 11:34 pm to Tall Tiger
The thing that always jumps out at me with old pics like this is all the overhead wires. They are everywhere.
Posted on 2/23/20 at 5:10 am to Parmen
Democrats
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