Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the info. My favorite restaurant used to be in a smallish house somewhere toward or in the Garden District. I always went in a cab after dark for dinner, so I can't place it precisely, but I think it was well known place. I cannot recall the name. Does anything ring a bell? Thanks. Scott I was being somewhat tongue in cheek about the nice 'burbs. I'm sure they were very nice places, and I'm sad to hear that the nice folks living there weren't spared the destruction. Christopher Williams wrote: >Garden District(we lived 3 blocks from it) did just fine during Katrina as >it sit about 6ft above sea level and is on the River side, not the Lake side >of New Orleans. Some oak trees down and sporadic fires did the damage, no >water. Houses there were going for 1 million+. We always said something was >coming since the extreme wealth moved out a year before Katrina. Anne Rice >and Trent Reznor used to call the Garden District home. The Mannings are >still there along with authors, city officials, artists and other family >wealth. I miss walking my dog daily through this neighborhood. > >Further down St Charles and you arrive at the 2 million + homes which saw >Israeli security forces and BlackWater security helicoptered in to guard >these homes. And yet one house burned to the ground. > > >Scott, I meant that the "better off" were just the ones trying to escape >city living and wanted a house, SUV, quietness, etc. > >Chris > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Scott McLoughlin" >Subject: Re: [Leica] Katrina relief pin-up calendar--Bro Nagin > > > > >>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). >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >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)