Category: Louisiana trips
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The burbs of New Orleans, January 25, 2016
For years, smug liberals in New Orleans have been making fun of Metairie and Kenner, mostly built in the nineteen fifties and sixties; the principal suburbs of New Orleans. Just like all over America, starting after the Second World War, and accelerating in the sixties, middle class whites fled the city limits of New Orleans…
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The New Orleans of 2015, bike rides around the city, 9/29-10/3, 2015
Tootie and I just spent four nights in New Orleans. We keep bicycles there at our friend’s house. Much has been written about New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A lot has changed in the ten years since the devastating flood caused by the failure of the levies. The population declined when over a…
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Street Names of New Orleans, January 29-31, 2015
Tootie and I went to New Orleans recently. We now have our own bicycles stored at our friend’s place there, where we also rent her backyard apartment. I had the opportunity to bike around New Orleans, looking for interesting street names. In Bywater and its immediate vicinity, we find pleasures of the flesh.…
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Prytania Street, New Orleans LA, 10/5/2014
If I was writing this ten years ago, I would have said that even though I loved New Orleans, there was a long list of reasons why New Orleans, at least on paper, might have been the worst city in America. Crime was terrible, public education was a mess, the streets were filled with potholes. …
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