re: Pictures from days gone by....

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Yep, went 8-8 the next year in '79. Boy, 7 year old me thought the Saints were making the playoffs. I hung on every game, then came the loss to the Raiders on a Monday Night in December, and I remember crying myself to sleep

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Went to that game (friends dad got last minute tix). Stayed until the end. Quiet ride home.

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How that place didn’t make it idk. It was like Wal Mart. You could get all kinds of stuff in there.

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His son screwed it up, tired to buy National and Canal-Vilere and wound up going bankrupt.

But Yeah, you could pick up a shot gun and a gallon of milk if need be.

[quote]His son screwed it up, tired to buy National and Canal-Vilere and wound up going bankrupt.

But Yeah, you could pick up a shot gun and a gallon of milk if need be.[/quote


Also hit the bank, pharmacy, Dentist and have a few drinks at the bar.

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But Yeah, you could pick up a shot gun and a gallon of milk if need be.[/quote


Also hit the bank, pharmacy, Dentist and have a few drinks at the bar.

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And have your shoes shined. Heck, the one on Airline had a full-time cobbler in it.

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Fishing tackle. Mitchell 300 spinning reels about $13. in the 60’s

The first span of the Causeway Bridge across Lake Pontchartrain opened in 1956, the world's longest continuous bridge over a body of water, stretching 24-miles from shore to shore. It was completed four months ahead of schedule, primarily because all of the sections of the bridge were prefabricated.

Toshiyuki Sakata won a silver medal for the United States at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, lifting a total of 410 kg in the Heavyweight division.



He would later play “Oddjob” in Goldfinger

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