Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Two kids in a stolen car who were evading the police slammed into that sandwich shop, setting it ablaze. Amazingly, the burned shell of it stood through Katrina and Rita without collapsing! Last week, when I blinked, it was transformed into a dirt lot. My favorite coffee shop, Coffee and Company, reopened last week...as a Starbucks. Does anyone really *like* Starbucks coffee? In a three-way shootout among Starbucks, McDonalds, and Burger King, Starbucks coffee came in at #3 on coffee quality. On 7/8/07, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/8/07, Christopher Williams <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > > > > I'm sure Sonny and Jeff would notice where some photographs were taken > > more than me since I'm a 70's child. > > > > Chris > > N'awlins > > > > I got to New Orleans in the late sixties, just before the hippy invasion, > brought on by 1969's Easy Rider. It was a helluva news town, a great > place for a young photographer to carve out a career. > > Big things gone are Ponchatrain Beach with the Zephyr Roller coaster, one > of > the best wooden rides in the world. > > The loss of all the little produce wholesalers in the buildings across from > the French Market. > > Street Vendors selling shrimp, crawfish and vegetables . > > Acy's pool hall, right where magazine goes one way. Wonderful po-boys. > > Avenue sandwich shop across from Delgado, where a hamburger was a half a > pound of meat hand formed, cooked on the grill and on a half french loaf. > They sliced the tomatoes and lettuce for each sandwich. > > Minty's plate lunches on the ground floor of the building where Cosimo > Matassa recorded so many great records including "Walking to New Orleans" > with Fats. The garlicky gravy made Liver and Onions a special treat. The > rough looking characters that frequented the place looked dangerous, and if > your were a drug dealer, you should fear, because this was the hangout for > the narcotics squad. > > There was a furniture store uptown that had a snowball machine, and the > most > complete menu of flavors in town. They had the window set up at a window, > I > think on Freret Street. > > Out in Avondale, there was and I think it is still there, Mosca's, a > little > Italian Restaurant that looked like a roadhouse, and they had fabulous > food. Usually at night, Crime Boss Carlos Marcello sat at the front table. > > I may remember more. > > Regards, > > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > Natchitoches, Louisiana > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, LA