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Posted on 6/28/25 at 11:04 pm to Disco Ball
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And how come no one has mentioned the late great Silver Moon Cafe?
Man that place was awesome, and they had one on Chimes for a bit. How are we this old?
YT
Posted on 6/28/25 at 11:19 pm to fallguy_1978
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Man that place was awesome, and they had one on Chimes for a bit. How are we this old?
The original one was all I remember. Fitty cent canned beer and all the sweet tea you could drink. I owned a bar on Gardere and after morning cleanup I'd take everyone there for lunch. She knew us well so it was basically all you can eat. It required a 2 hour nap just to recover.
A few years back I found the Silver Moon cookbook for fitty cents at a Goodwill Store. .
Posted on 6/28/25 at 11:22 pm to Cosmo
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Guaranteed section 8 income slumlord apartments can also be gold mines
Usually not.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 11:30 pm to R11
Katrina ruined Tigerland
Posted on 6/28/25 at 11:30 pm to Disco Ball
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Silver Moon Cafe
Didn’t even have fountain drinks. She poured it straight from the 2 liter.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 11:41 pm to fallguy_1978
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It's right next to where LSU is considering building a new basketball arena. It's walkable from campus, and historically a student area that went ghetto, and it's bad ghetto, like regular murders and shootings ghetto.
I met my husband there. We both lived in Bengal. When I started college in the late 90s that area was 95% broke arse college students. It was safe, and there were lots of parties. The northern side of campus was considered the seedy side of campus, believe it or not. Katrina changed everything.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 11:47 pm to Thecoz
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Tigerland … Got old— kids got spoiled- parents got subsidized with tops —- Nola flooded…lots of empty old apartments got filled—- got dangerous.
It was Katrina. I lived there before and after, and it was completely different. Maybe it was inevitable, but Katrina definitely sped it up.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 7:51 am to RichJ
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R11
40yrs ago I lived on Brightside. Not sure I’d drive down that way without a fully armed HMMWV nowadays…
Lol what? I lived on Brightside from 04-09 and it was perfectly fine. Haven't been lately but I can't imagine it's Gardere level at this point.
Buddies lived in Tigerland during the same period and it was OK. Definitely sketchy areas but still plenty of students living there around that time.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:31 am to Disco Ball
My 1st impressions of LSU in the 80's was of how run down most of the surrounding neighborhoods were except for a strip between Highland and Perkins which remains a decent enough neighborhood. The decay has accelerated since then.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:35 am to fr33manator
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American Market Poboys with a drink and a bag of Zapp's Spicy Crawgators
That combo meal is $10.50 now.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:41 am to R11
Two words:
Section 8
Section 8
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:49 am to GeauxPanthers2
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That combo meal is $10.50 now.
Crazy, you could get lunch and a flat of 16oz's for about $15 when I was there.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:51 am to GeauxPanthers2
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That combo meal is $10.50 now
Frick. It was 4.99 when I lived on brightside.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:56 am to fr33manator
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There was still the concept of the poor college kid eating American Market Poboys with a drink and a bag of Zapp's Spicy Crawgators
Rabbit trail- there was a convenience store on Gardere in the 90s that had a fantastic shrimp poboy. Anybody remember it? Was the name Rainbow market? Anyone know if they are still serving good shrimp poboys?
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:57 am to fallguy_1978
quote:Ok. Question answered. Thanks
It's right next to where LSU is considering building a new basketball arena
Posted on 6/29/25 at 9:02 am to pelicanpride
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was Katrina. I lived there before and after, and it was completely different. Maybe it was inevitable, but Katrina definitely sped it up.
I don’t think it was inevitable without Katrina. I think that investors would have bought properties next to each other and razed them to create the newer apartment complexes everyone was looking for. The location is great and the infrastructure is there. I would guess maybe that side of campus would have seen something like what they did with the north side on Nicholson.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 9:14 am to fallguy_1978
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When I was a student, I lived in Tigerland. There was still the concept of the poor college kid eating Totinos pizzas and living in $350/mo apartments.
I will say I think I caught the end of this era and it does make me kind of sad that college has completely moved away from this these days.
The whole "poor college kid" experience was a legit foundational building block, IMHO. Thinking about how corporatized LSU and the options have become is just gross. If I had kids of the age, if they didn't have grades to go to a real school I'd just tell them to go to a lesser school like McNeese or ULL
Also, the biggest reason for that area (I'm talking Tigerland and Sharlo and probably Brightside now) to change was Katrina. After Katrina the government created the GO Zone tax policy, which permitted an insane 50% depreciation in year 1.
LINK
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The Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005 (“GO Zone”) created a number of business incentives to help Louisiana and the other areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina. One of the key elements of the GO Zone legislation is the 50 percent bonus depreciation provision. This provision has been getting a great deal of coverage in the media and among the various investment circles. However, until guidance is issued by the IRS, there are some areas of uncertainty in this legislation.
The bonus depreciation provision allows a taxpayer to depreciate 50 percent of the cost of certain qualified GO Zone property.
This started the rabid building of new apartment complexes. I was in undergrad 01-05 and I can't remember the names of the "nice" apartments but there were only a couple. By the time I left law school in 2008 that had all flipped and a few years later (following on here) the standard apartment/townhome was on a different scale.
This led to all the older options going down in status. Sharlo was decimated and almost fully Section 8 by the time I left. I was living in Brightside and it hadn't really started there from what I could tell, but I wasn't exactly hanging out at neighborhood functions either so I could be wrong.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 9:15 am to pelicanpride
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It was Katrina. I lived there before and after, and it was completely different. Maybe it was inevitable, but Katrina definitely sped it up.
It was Katrina but not because of the hurricane or population moving as much as the tax incentives that led to the apartment boom
Posted on 6/29/25 at 9:24 am to DiamondDog
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Overrated
Smh
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