Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Christopher Williams wrote: Kenner and Metairie we created when the "better off" wanted to escape the poor and riff raff of the city of New Orleans. But yet New Orleans was on higher ground. Both suffered severe damage so this man made disaster did not just effect the poor. ------------------- Nah, those are *relatively* low rent upper middle class 'burbs. I'm not concerned with the doctor/dentist working stiff crowd in regrads to my inquiry. I'm talking real wealth - as in, not having to work for a living, ever. Or your children, or their children. I was talking about old (hence my term, "historically"), urban, and hardcore wealthy neighborhoods of the monied classes - places like Back Bay in Boston, Foxhall in DC - stuff like that (fill in your favorite examples). Is the Garden District the equivalent in N.O.? Dunno. I'm curious, how did it fair Katrina? Scott p.s. While the media seems to characterize Harvard as a "lefty" place, it's actually a wonderful place to meet bright young people who are so RICH that they will *NEVER* have to work a day in their lives (like most of their parents before them). I recall 18 to 21 year old boys crying in the Dunster House courtyard the day the market crashed in '87, including Robert Ziff (largest t-shirt collection I ever saw), one of the heirs to the magazine fortune (he and his brothers sold it off - why concern themselves with mere business?). I shacked up with a girl, "Libby," briefly in "Deedee" Danforth's house. She bought a nice G'town townhouse to live in while attending lawschool. Her dad was the Senator, but more signifantly, heir to the Ralston Purina fortune. They had very nice, expensive art on the walls. Another nice 24 year old girl I knew had a townhouse with a *huge*granite fountain - in her kitchen. And less well heeled wives are so proud of their granite counter tops - if they only knew :-) Really, the stories go on an on, I had a friend, Jonathan, who asked if he could miss class for an upcoming out of town board meeting - he was a 19 year old sophmore at the time. Even at my prep school, they got us interested in Edgar Allan Poe with a spoof of "The Raven" where the refrain is "Buy a Ford" instead of "Never More." Like who would actually own a Ford? You get the idea. BTW, Just observations. I'm very much just a poor working class punk at heart, one who luckily liked to read and happened to test very well :-) >Chris > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Scott McLoughlin" >Subject: Re: [Leica] Katrina relief pin-up calendar--Bro Nagin > > > > >>Aside from the color of folk's skin, is it true that in many or most >>cities, the historically nice neighborhoods for the well heeled are on >>higher ground? >> >>This is true in Baltimore and Wash, DC. (lower G'town my be an >>exception), >> >>I was led to believe that this started way back in an attempt to avoid >>mosquito and other insect born illnesses. >> >>BTW, I like your final analysis of the problem. >> >>IMHO, it's very hard to be prepared for low probability, theoretically >>worst case scenarios - and not just hurricanes. If we were so prepared >>and ever vigilant against all such possibilities, we'd probably all go >>crazy. >> >>Scott >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)