Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/26/2006 9:19:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time, don.dory@gmail.com writes: I do have the memories, the smells, the textures, the sounds so it is all still alive for me. ------------ That's kind of why I have not gone to visit New Orleans, so I can still feel that way. The thing I'm told by people who have gone back, is that you stand somewhere that once was vibrant and alive, and now you turn 360 degrees and see destruction; Miles of cars waiting their turn to go to the crushers, it goes on and on. I too have lost individual buildings and people that are still part of my memory, but the loss of the New Orleans I knew and loved is a different thing. Jeff says Liuzza's is back. That is a relief. It stands on the corner of Bienville and Telemachus, right next door to where Kathy lived when we first started dating. Beer and Soft drinks are served in large frozen schooners. I can't eat all of one of their catfish po-boys. Wonderful place where the waitress calls everyone "Darlin' " That's just one place, but since my haunts were in Lakeview and Mid-city, most of my New Orleans is a long way from coming back in any form. Not that they are not trying. The owner of Liedenheimer's French Bakery cleaned up, bought trailers for his staff to live in, and got back to baking their remarkable french bread, Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish