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re: The Old NOLA East - pictures from the Plaza at Lake Forest
Posted on 5/6/22 at 2:59 pm to TigrrrDad
Posted on 5/6/22 at 2:59 pm to TigrrrDad
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and being afraid to ask girls to dance since I didn’t know how to dance.
Story of my life, and it only got worse one night when a gal dragged me on a dance floor for a "fast" dance. I tried to explain to her I was OK with slow dances, but was gawd awful trying to dance fast dances.
We get off the floor and tells me, "You are right, you suck at dancing". Crushed me into submission.
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Posted on 5/6/22 at 4:36 pm to TigrrrDad
Then you and I probably know each other. Then a few years later you cruise Judge Perez and hit that liquor store up in Arabi because they asked NO questions
Posted on 5/6/22 at 5:17 pm to tsmi136
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So what are the reasons?
what also sunk the east and NO for that matter(in regard to nationwide... even oil companies) The east shitty dangerous schools.... 20 minutes away not the same. I remember a oilfield service company that was one of my customers picking up and moving the whole operation to Houston because living in NO with private school tuition people were refusing to work in NO office.
when a community or area has more than X% of it's available housing in sect. 8 or other hud subsidized program..... it's over...
and the east started a rapid decline in early 80s by 90s it was toast.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 5:28 pm to KiwiHead
Really good history right there. You hit the nail on the head with the redistricting issue and the available housing stock. That was the beginning of the end, for sure. Tulane LSU did a thread about some of the NO East commercial buildings a while back. Those buildings are downright haunted looking now, along with Jazzland. Shame on the city for allowing that blight to be the first thing people see driving into the city.
Being from uptown, we would go to Lakeside mall and, before its demise, Uptown Square, for mall type shopping and movie theaters. I never knew anyone who went out to NO East, but looking at the photos in the OP, it looks like it would have been worth a trip to go to that mall.
Being from uptown, we would go to Lakeside mall and, before its demise, Uptown Square, for mall type shopping and movie theaters. I never knew anyone who went out to NO East, but looking at the photos in the OP, it looks like it would have been worth a trip to go to that mall.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 6:02 pm to KiwiHead
Likewise. Lifelong Chalmation. Grumpy's, club 17, place in the show?, hang at Park Chenier, buy beer at Chateau's or Ponsteins.
As I got older, drank at Nye's bar, Brewster and Treasures. Daiquiri's by Schwegmann. Bar across the street.
As I got older, drank at Nye's bar, Brewster and Treasures. Daiquiri's by Schwegmann. Bar across the street.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 6:43 pm to Tall Tiger
quote:there was a time when the Mall in da east was happy hunting grounds...
Being from uptown, we would go to Lakeside mall and, before its demise, Uptown Square, for mall type shopping and movie theaters. I never knew anyone who went out to NO East, but looking at the photos in the OP, it looks like it would have been worth a trip to go to that mall.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 6:56 pm to choupiquesushi
The east probably has the worst roads in the country
Posted on 5/6/22 at 7:14 pm to TDsngumbo
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Gee, what happened?
Surely you jest. CULTCHA
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:26 pm to LSUFanHouston
I loved ice skating out there in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
And eating afterwards at the Flame n’ Burger in the food court.
And eating afterwards at the Flame n’ Burger in the food court.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:44 pm to geauxpurple
I remember going to the midnight movie, and walking halfway around the parking lot at 2am to get to my car.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 9:53 pm to pjab
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The east was fine through the 90s.
No. No it wasn't. I respectfully disagree. When HUD started subsidizing the housing there in the mid-80's, the demise was swift and certain. The last time I entered Lake Forest mall was Christmas '88, and I witnessed a near riot of kids in their late teens from a couple of different high schools.
I worked in the East until '94. I was robbed a gunpoint and witnessed two shootings.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 9:56 pm to BoudreauxsCousin
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When HUD started subsidizing the housing there in the mid-80's, the demise was swift and certain.
Sounds a lot like Greenspoint
Posted on 5/6/22 at 9:58 pm to KiwiHead
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Hey bruh!!!! Ever spend a night at Grumpy's in the 8 th grade?
I spent many nights at Grumpy's in 8th grade.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 10:03 pm to KiwiHead
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Then you and I probably know each other. Then a few years later you cruise Judge Perez and hit that liquor store up in Arabi because they asked NO questions
Chateau Food Store. Jason sold to everyone until StBSO stepped in and ruined the fun.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 10:06 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
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I loved ice skating out there in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
And eating afterwards at the Flame n’ Burger in the food court.
We would hit Pavone's Pizza in the corner next to the arcade. Pizza by the slice.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 10:09 pm to KiwiHead
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Then a few years later you cruise Judge Perez and hit that liquor store up in Arabi because they asked NO questions
Truth.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 10:24 pm to bad93ex
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When HUD started subsidizing the housing there in the mid-80's, the demise was swift and certain.
Sounds a lot like Greenspoint
Subsidized housing destroys every community it touches. Yet our beloved federal government keeps doing it. Keeps destroying our country. Our current president promised to expand subsidized housing to suburbs that don’t have enough diversity. fricking treason.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 10:50 pm to LSUFanHouston
Morrison's Cafeteria
Posted on 5/6/22 at 11:27 pm to zztop1234
The Wendy’s across the street from the Plaza had square burgers we had never seen before.
That was our introduction to a more expensive burger that tasted better than anything we had eaten to date.
That was our introduction to a more expensive burger that tasted better than anything we had eaten to date.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 8:05 am to Tall Tiger
It was the place to be at if you lived anywhere from say the UNO area to Chalmette. From a shopping perspective there was nothing you could not get. It had Maison Blanche, Dillards/ Holmes and Sears...then later added a Mervyns. We had a Perlis, Rubinstein Bros, Gus Mayer and Godcheaux's as well as a 4 screen movie theater replete with places to eat as well.
I remember in H.S. in the early 80's, Saturday mornings around 1130 to about 3 pm everyone was there....it was packed.
The East started to go down in 85 due to redistricting of the council. What really started the decline was the indictment of Wayne Babovich the councilman out there for a land deal where everyone made money. He is forced to resign and because this coincides with redistricting, the council places Ulysses Williams to hold the spot until a new election wherein Johnny Jackson who is in the legislature can run and Williams can be the Assessor. Once that happens the Sec8s take off and the ripples of that demographic change is felt by the Plaza until by the early 90's it was a tsunami that had wiped out what it used to be. Shoe stores and sports apparel are the only things that were left.
It affected everything. There was J Todd Diamond Creations on Lake Forest. I knew the the guy who owned it. Threw all of his money into the place in 1982 and by 85 or 86 was doing quite well. By 88 he was done after having his windows broken and one of his employees pistol whipped in a botched robbery. A Giant Schwegmann's had opened on Bullard in 88 or 89. It was great. You could get everything. You wanted a crown roast...they had it. One of the best produce departments even to this day. By 1995 it was ghost town and closed soon after....before the the financial issues hit Schwegmann's at large.
It almost seemed like it was intentional ghettoization of the area. A conquest if you will .
I remember in H.S. in the early 80's, Saturday mornings around 1130 to about 3 pm everyone was there....it was packed.
The East started to go down in 85 due to redistricting of the council. What really started the decline was the indictment of Wayne Babovich the councilman out there for a land deal where everyone made money. He is forced to resign and because this coincides with redistricting, the council places Ulysses Williams to hold the spot until a new election wherein Johnny Jackson who is in the legislature can run and Williams can be the Assessor. Once that happens the Sec8s take off and the ripples of that demographic change is felt by the Plaza until by the early 90's it was a tsunami that had wiped out what it used to be. Shoe stores and sports apparel are the only things that were left.
It affected everything. There was J Todd Diamond Creations on Lake Forest. I knew the the guy who owned it. Threw all of his money into the place in 1982 and by 85 or 86 was doing quite well. By 88 he was done after having his windows broken and one of his employees pistol whipped in a botched robbery. A Giant Schwegmann's had opened on Bullard in 88 or 89. It was great. You could get everything. You wanted a crown roast...they had it. One of the best produce departments even to this day. By 1995 it was ghost town and closed soon after....before the the financial issues hit Schwegmann's at large.
It almost seemed like it was intentional ghettoization of the area. A conquest if you will .
This post was edited on 5/7/22 at 8:07 am
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