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I always assumed it was a product of an older neighborhood that has short 1-car driveways in a society where you have a minimum of 2 vehicles per household.

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You have hit the nail on the head on this in terms of Metairie and New Orleans.

First, New Orleans.

So much of New Orleans was built BEFORE the days of automobiles, and homes in many neighborhoods have no allowance for parking a car on the lot, and they HAVE to park on the street:


St. Ann Street near Bayou St. John

During the 20th century, very many New Orleanians moved out to suburban Metairie. So first of all, they were already ACCUSTOMED to parking on the street. But even so, the situation in Metairie (and other suburbs such as Chalmette and the West Bank) made it hard to NOT park on the street sometimes.

Outside of Old Metairie, the rest of Metairie was built post-WW2 (50s, 60s/70s, even 80s) generally as cheap as possible. The math worked like this:

-- Minimum lot size was 50' X 100', so that's what developers subdivided lots into.
-- Minimum setbacks were 20' front, 20' back, 5' feet on each side.
-- Builders built houses one-story (for the most part) to save money. To maximize space, they built out to the above limits, which gave you 2400 sq. ft. under roof-- a decent-sized three bedroom house.
-- Parish requires at least ONE (1) parking space behind the 20 ft. setback. IF you built out to the limits, this could be accomplished 3 ways:
(1) L-shaped front of house with open parking space not under roof;
(2) Parking under roof as a carport;
(3) garage under roof of the house.
-- Number 2 and number 3 were generally used the most. And under No. 3, basically NO ONE used the garage for car parking, just for storage and such.
-- The driveway in the 20' setback is enough to park one (1) car. The idea of having one parking space behind the 20' setback is that each house will have 2 cars, and both can park off-street.

But when people don't use garages for parking, or as their teen-age kids get their own cars, someone is invariably parking on the street, or as we can see in this example (on the left side), squeezing in a 2nd car and blocking the sidewalk:

Ithaca Street in the Bissonet Plaza neighborhood of Metairie

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One season

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Yep, in Primetime 1964-65 on Friday nights.

I was born just after midnight the night the classic "The Robot Spy" episode 1st aired:

Seriously?

It is all explained in the movie, on the beach, when Fletch is disguised as a bearded hippy skater.

Fletch figures out Gummy and Fat Sam are in cahoots with the police (and the police chief) in the drug trade.

That's why he brings them both to the newspaper office to get their statements.

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Minnesota had hosted one before.

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26 years previously. Get in this century bro

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They hosted one in 1992 at the Metrodome (not 26 years previously) and one in 2018 at the current stadium.... "bro" :rolleyes:

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There are a few women who I suspect could kill a man, but she actually could and did.

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SNL - The Claudine Longet Ski Invitational

Hilarious back then...

Need to bring back the Iced Tea flavor from the 80s.

Surprisingly good and refreshing

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Key parties were big in the 60's and early 70's

4 or more couples show up to party. Men's keys in a basket. Women pulled the key out and off they go with that man to contribute their part ...

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Yeah, that's basically a myth that's been overblown by Hollywood:

Did Key Parties Ever Really Happen?

Rick Moody, author of the novel The Ice Storm, was born in 1961. He was too young to know of or participate in any Seventies key parties, even if they really existed. Moody himself acknowledges that he never witnessed or even heard of key parties until he was in his thirties, shortly before he started working on his book. Indeed, at the time, he’d never actually met anyone who’d CLAIMED to have participated in one.

The Namor II:

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There is but ONE answer!

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As per a post a few months ago, he is NOT in good shape and in rapidly declining mental health; he appears to have Parkinson's/Alzheimer's/early onset dementia.

Main reason he has not been in the public eye and will NOT be a guest picker.

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Sounds like the last critic with a pair of balls.

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Yeah, but he also liked balls, if you know what I mean.

Basically his whole career was a being a bitchy gay bully to EVERYONE from Frank Sinatra to Marisa Tomei.