[Leica] News from Jeffery Smith (New Orleans)

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Jeffery,
Photographic opportunities are limited with 50,000 hormone laden 18-25 year
olds? Get real. Add in a humongous toxic wasted clean up effort and the
photographic possibilities are endless. Now, as to getting paid....
 Don
don.dory@gmail.com

 On 9/30/05, SonC@aol.com <SonC@aol.com> wrote:
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> We've been in a small northwestern Houston motel for 29 days now, and
> on day 30 we are driving back into the city. My house will be little
> different than when I left 4 weeks ago except for no longer having my
> two lab retrievers (rescued, but don't know where to) and possibly
> having electricity. Three people (two of which smoke, and I ain't one
> of them) and three small dogs (one of which snores) in one small room
> is close enough to house arrest to make me never want to do insider
> trading. I doubt that I will have a job in two weeks, so convincing
> my wife that we aren't on a spendthrift vacation is a daily burden.
> I'm not sure what property on the edge of a toxic waste site is, but
> it ain't gonna be good unless they find oil under my property. I
> bought a Bessa R2S a week before the storm. I'll guess we will soon
> see how it fared underwater at my post office.
>
> Things are looking up compared to the past 5 weeks, but looking very
> down compared to 6 weeks ago. We had 17,600 students at the college.
> Most of our student population is from the area that was under 10
> feet of sludge. New Orleans was one of the most college and
> university laden cities in the south. Now there are a lot of
> functional buildings but no students. I think that New Orleans' only
> future is to become "a college town" by being pretty much just
> that...a city with enough housing to house the students, and enough
> bars and clubs to keep them entertained on the weekends. But even
> then, with about ... hmm .. how many colleges and universities???
>
> Delgado Community College
> Dillard University
> Holy Cross College
> Loyola University
> Loyola University Law School
> LSU Dental School
> LSU Health Sciences Center
> LSU Medical School
> Southern University of New Orleans
> Tulane Medical School
> Tulane University
> Tulane Law School
> University of New Orleans
> University of Phoenix (aw, they don't count)
> Xavier University
>
> With 15 colleges and universities, maybe New Orleans can make it as a
> college town.
>
> But the photographic opportunities seem grim at best.
>
> JLS
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