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re: What caused the area between downtown and LSU to become so ghetto?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 4:35 pm to el Gaucho
Posted on 3/25/26 at 4:35 pm to el Gaucho
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Y’all are saying the same thing
you're doing your Gaucho thing but back then in the 1930s onward, Italians were maybe one rung higher than blacks.
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Posted on 3/25/26 at 4:55 pm to Rabby
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North Baton Rouge blight took place later and I will not discuss that issue any further. (Artfully dodging the looming specter of a ban.)
People keep referring to a ban in these threads? You aren’t going to get banned. There’s a correlation between crime and race, but that’s because of factors that have been discussed. AA moved into certain neighborhoods because they were affordable. Why were they affordable? That’s been discussed as well. Back then, I think it’s fair to say that under the boot of Jim Crow laws, it was hard to work your way up the socioeconomic ladder. Impoverished areas stayed that way. Criminal activity rose, homes became single parent, and it only exacerbated the existing problems. It’s been a slow ride to the bottom. Those that can get out usually do.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 4:58 pm to TexasTiger08
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, homes became single parent
Blacks has the same divorce rate as whites until LBJ' s War on Poverty where our country uncentivized fatherlessness and $$$ reward for popping out kids.
lBj is right up there as one of the worst presidents this country has ever suffered. Just about NOTHING he / his administration did was good for the USA
Posted on 3/25/26 at 5:34 pm to cgrand
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Park Forest Elementary class of 1975 checking in. We rode our bikes to school from edgemont drive
I grew up on edgemont. We moved there in 66 and there were less than twenty houses . Actually edgemont and Ridgemont to about two houses past sunny cline are in a subdivision originally known as Claremont . Went to sixth grade at park forest elementary school in its first year . Rode my bike to baseball and football practice at the jr high , to Frank And Ferd to get my haircut next to the stop and go at park forest barbershop . Cried like a baby when Angelo’s bbq closed . Damn that place was good. Snowballs at savoys snowball stand. Shopped at Patin’s grocery which later became oak villa supermarket . What a great place to grow up
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 5:45 pm
Posted on 3/25/26 at 5:50 pm to Ihatethiscity
You always used to have poor areas near nice areas. The help had to live close enough by to be able to get to work easily.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 6:57 pm to Ihatethiscity
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Was it always like this?
It's called "the bottoms". Always been the bottoms.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 7:21 pm to 777Tiger
Hey 777, did you know Steve Bonfanti back in the day?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 7:40 pm to BabyTac
quote:Dems in NYC are spending over 80 K per homeless person - they are not tired of it
Dem, people are tired of catering to homeless, uneducated, and fatherless raised people which all come with loads of crime and heartache.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 7:42 pm to Ihatethiscity
NBR was blue collar and white as hell through the late 60s/early 70s.
This post was edited on 3/26/26 at 6:50 am
Posted on 3/25/26 at 7:43 pm to Ihatethiscity
quote:Because Baton Rouge didn't have St Charles Avenue
Was it always like this? It seems to be "prime" real estate for ease of access to LSU and downtown, much the same way the garden district is. I was thinking maybe it was the interstate - but the interstate is also close to some of the nicer areas as well - LSU lakes etc.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 7:48 pm to BabyTac
quote:yet again more of LBJ's children coming home to roost
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Crack created an element that doesn't go away. A lot of bad areas got that way because of crack
Byproduct of bad parenting. Good parents don’t raise crackheads. Good parents don’t raise drug dealers. Bad parents glorify crime. Bad parents support people who glorify crime. What demographic supports the glorification of crime?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 7:48 pm to Ihatethiscity
Are you trying to debate someone if they say red-lining or discrimination had something to do with it?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 7:51 pm to Ihatethiscity
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the area between downtown and LSU
The area known as the taint
Posted on 3/25/26 at 7:56 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
quote:Auburn and Clemson say hello
But I just don't see it ever having become some big college town. I don't really get your point about the Red River or Buhlow Lake. Neither really offers anything regarding a college town. Pineville had no mall, no bars, no movie theater, hell they didn't even sell hard liquor. Not sure if any of that has changed over the years. I don't know, I think Pineville as a major college town would be the equivalent of a red headed stepchild to Starkville
Posted on 3/25/26 at 8:09 pm to Breadcrumbs
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Are you trying to debate someone if they say red-lining or discrimination had something to do with it?
Not really no. Had no idea about the "bottoms". It's not a huge area either. It seems like it could be "reasonably" be fixed up and gentrified fairly quickly if the powers that be gave a shite.
This place is such a shithole it seems the only solution anyone has is to just move further and further away, yet still stay in the State.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 1:17 am to Ihatethiscity
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Didn't read the rest of your post.
Apparently.
You criticized me and rage quit without reading the rest of my post where I answered your question.
But the simple answer is that it was called "the bottoms" due to the low lying land which was swampy and ill suited for most construction, so it started very poor. As time marched on, modern drainage improved the area a bit, but the stigma and low income culture was deeply established. Many of the structures were poorly made, out of style and ill kept. Urban blight on display.
In spite of several urban renewal efforts, there has been minimal success that I have seen. Many businesses tried to make this area viable, but most faced significant crime and took defensive measures such as cameras, fences and guards. I know of many people to include family members and myself who were victims of crime in that area.
But the last of us has departed the "rudge" about a decade ago.
Maybe other TD contributors have more recent information.
And kicking rocks will do me no harm as I generally wear steel toed boots.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 6:21 am to Ihatethiscity
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What caused the area between downtown and LSU to become so ghetto?
democrat voting.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 7:40 am to Ihatethiscity
I lived in a one bedroom appt. on Aster between Nicholson and the river. I was the only white boy there. Never had any issues. The first night I moved to Tigerland my battery was stolen out of my truck.
This was in '85.
This was in '85.
This post was edited on 3/26/26 at 7:43 am
Posted on 3/26/26 at 8:25 am to el Gaucho
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:01 am to TexasTiger08
quote:It was mostly a joke - in light of the recent discussion of unbanning people who disappeared suddenly.
People keep referring to a ban in these threads? You aren’t going to get banned.
Having been a moderator for other online communities, I think the mods are very reasonable here. But there is also value in reminding the herd that the shepherds do have the big stick and do use it.
Besides, alluding to a causal situation can be better technique on multiple levels than directly stating it. You filled in many blanks which I avoided typing.
This post was edited on 3/26/26 at 2:31 pm
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