re: What were some of your favorite hangout places as a teenager?

New Orleans lakefront and the pizza parlor that was near the end of Elysian Fields. I think it might have been called Luigi's?

Club M, Coffee Call, Cortana, Celebration Station, M's Fine and Mello Cafe.

Forsythe Park in Monroe was the place to be on Friday and Saturday nights in the late 80’s and early 90’s

The Zone

Food World parking lot

Wherever the girl sleepover was. Usually you could hang to a certain time and after that the girls could sneak out the window. Simpler people, simpler times.

Sicily Parking lot Hammond La- early 80’s

The Bulldog Inn, but mostly we rode around town, with frequent loops to and around the Bulldog. Such a small town and so much time riding around that we could recognize our friends cars by the shape of their headlights coming at us on a dark street. Good times.

Blue bayou/dixie Landin at 13-16. Had the summer season passes parents would drop us off at blue bayou and we’d bring a set of clothes to put in a locker and stay at Dixie Landin all night once BB closed. Good times. Also skating rink lock ins around that age

Once we got licenses and got to high school it was a lot of riding around and hanging out in parking lots if we couldn’t find a party. That or the mall or bww

Cucimano's or Chink's Bar in the Lower 9th Ward. Cusimano's was on St. Claude by Flood St. and Chink's was around Royal and Lamanche.

Lots of pool playing even though my cousin and I were well underage to be in bars.


Also Cow Town in Arabi by the river. An old time bar once owned by the Guilliot family with lots of bookmaking and other forms of illegal gambling going on daily back then. Been torn down for decades now.