re: TulaneLSU’s top 50 New Orleanians of the 20th and 21st centuries

Come on, Friend…..
Archie 100 times over Peyton. He raised his family and lived in the city. He was and is way more ambassador for Nola than Peyton.

And, Paul Prudhomme, although not born in Nola, put New Orleans and Louisiana on the map worldwide with blackened redfish. He tremendously boosted the restaurant scene in Nola!

What about Frogman Henry?

You write some great
List,
But
You got dem shoes on the wrong street here.

Do you even Buddy Stall or Buddy Diliberto bro?

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No Paul Morphy?? C’mon man you are better than this

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Someone needs to learn their centuries

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Mac Rebennack, aka Dr John, should be considered

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Absolutely.

No Nash Roberts?
Morgus?

Too busy to read through the list. Someone tell me where I placed?

Let em have it!

Where tf is Roop Raj???

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Paul Prudhomme is from Opelousas baw

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Where did he make his name? Who put New Orleans cuisine at the forefront in the early 1980s?

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Louis Armstrong dumped New Orleans for Chicago when he was 21 and never looked back but he’s treated like a God. Fats was New Orleans tried and true.

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In armstrong’s defense . . . would you rather make a living as a black performer in New Orleans or in New York/Chicago circa 1920-1950?