re: Tell Me About Chalmette

What's the difference between the trash and a Chalmette woman?


The trash at least gets taken out twice a week.

A place where kings are born.

But for real it wasn't a bad place growing up. Not quite the same anymore it seems.

Just ask ya mom n dem bout it.

Chalmette is a wonderful part of new Orleans history.

The good.
It was where the battle of new Orleans took place.
The pirate Jean Lafitte used it as his smuggling port after he slipped past militia.
It's high in Italian families that used Chalmette as a base of operations in the 1920s till the 1980s..
It's close proximity to great fishing, crabbing, shrimping, and oyster beds.

The bad.
Those Italians are still pretty close knit.. but do legal stuff with small "family deals". Don't know 'em ? Then you ain't shite.
Katrina really hurt the area.. almost everyone that lost something got swindled out of money and there were plenty of reports of "contractors" that walked away with up to $30,000 from good and bad people.
Rocky and Carlos isn't bad.... but it's the best they have.

The ugly.
There really is a shifty group locals. They are mostly hood bullshite groups, or a new generation of privileged young Italians (most aren't, but they claim to be) that think they can run shite like they're grandad did.

Chalmette could use a lot more Italians. Italians are the least of chalmettes problems.

The worst of the trash is Violet but Chalmette does have it's fair share. Heroin is causing the usual problems with theft and property crime.

GOOD
Blue collar.
Only place left to see old, white, NOLA, downriver, yat culture. Its dying out.
Great food.
Some people are really friendly and down-to-earth.

BAD
Some people are your typical ignorant, arrogant middle-class, white d-bags.
St. Bernard Sheriffs Department stood on the bridges*EDIT* train tracks during Katrina and wouldnt let the often times sketchy folks from the 9th cross the canal into their sacred shite hole. Theres a history behind this. See "the Ugly" section.
Rows and rows of hideous, 1960's, one-story, brick ranch, track housing.
Rows and rows of hideous 1980's strip malls and metal pole barns parading as retail shops.

UGLY
St. Bernard is the genetic remnants of old New Orleans. They made up the original population downriver of Canal/FQ in what is now the lower 9th ward. When the black folk started moving into the 9th they got da frick out. Established Chalmette. Invoked an unspoken rule against renting and selling to blacks to keep the riff-raff out and prevent a repeat of what happened in the lower 9th. They refused to continue to be pushed down river by crime and blight.
They(then farmers) were intentionally flooded by the city and the State to save the French Quarter and the rich, blueblood, carpetbagging yankees in the Garden District. Documented dynamiting of the levees, for when your friends roll your eyes at you when you rant about conspiracy theories and our corrupt government. See, "Louisiana 1927"

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However, after Katrina, all of the folks that could afford to move to the north shore did, and the economy suffered. Now, they have a drug and thug problem.

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I can third part of this. I moved to the Northshore from NOLA and there sure are a bunch of people from St. Bernard here.

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And I absolutely love meeting a woman from Chalmette. They all speak like Marisa Tomei from "my cousin vinny"

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No they don't

Ya gonna shoot a deeuh?

I have only one memory of Chalmette and that's Rocky & Carlos. SO GOOD!