We lived in New Orleans when I was a child. I remember the wooden roller coaster at Ponchatrain as well as the the big Walgreens on canal with upstairs soda shop and restaurant. School clothes and Christmas shopping at Maison Blanche department store. What was the name of the drug store with the purple front, I remember there was one on Napoleon Ave.?
Maison Blanche (that’s French for White House for those of you in Rio Linda). Damn. That brings back memories, too. Don’t recall the purple front drug store, though. I’m 73. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
KB had purple logo and I think was all over Louisiana but New Orleans based
Maybe that was it
Katz and somebody
I remember the observation deck on the trade mart end of canal by the river which is four seasons now
The “beach “ at ponchatrain
Spinnakers
The HoJo shooter I think they bagged him from a chopper
Christians on canal I think in an old church
Things have changed
The zombies and Amish own the quarters at night
It’s an Amish time now whereas metro is still white
Im down there twice a year
It’s just different and less safe and more hipsters and DuMonde closes at 11 which really sucks
I could live there even now uptown on garden district but you’d have to watch it
Most freeper type folks live on the north shore or Mississippi
You can live in bay St. Louis cheap and still be in the CBD in 45 minutes if traffic is lite
That’s nothing to me
Caveat
Id be leery my wife driving around Orleans parish at nite without me