Category: Louisiana trips
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The houses of Broadmoor, New Orleans, Feb. 17, 2016
I was looping around New Orleans by bicycle last week. Tootie and I were staying there for a few days. Broadmoor is an area of New Orleans developed in the early part of the 20th century, after a swampy area was drained. For at least the first twenty years of the neighborhood houses built high…
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New Orleans downriver to Braithwaite LA, Dec. 17, 2016
Tootie and I were staying in uptown New Orleans over a long weekend. I took the opportunity to take a day bike ride downriver. While I almost never play golf, first in about 1987 and as recently as about 2003 I had played golf at one of the more unusual municipal golf courses in…
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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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