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ELYSIAN FIELDS LOST |
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These are all photos taken in/of New Orleans years before Hurricane Katrina struck.
The place has always been so dirty and dangerous that it should have been declared a federal disaster area way before then!
New Orleans City Hall. |
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Bourbon Street by day |
Bienville - The "Founder" of New Orleans. |
The Louisiana state flag flying in between the Stars & Stripes and the New Orleans city banner. |
Urban blight and decay like this was common place all over the city, long before Katrina flooded everybody out and caused so much property damage. |
Severe urban blight and trash used to be everywhere, just within sight of downtown skyscrapers. |
The St. Thomas Housing Projects! (Hopefully, these will all get bulldozed now.) |
A big ol' pile of tires that sat in this alley not even a mile from downtown for years. Nobody
did anything about it! |
More trash and blight right near downtown. |
Yes, they lived there in the midst of all that trash, and they were trying to scurry out of sight before I could snap this shot of them! |
An average size "Palmetto Bug" |
A city street pot hole (you wouldn't want to lose your keys down there)! |
Brilliant street planning - note the converging "One Way" signs. (You figure it out!) |
The house where I found my cat, Pip. |
Another shot of the place where I found my cat, Pip. |
My cat, Pip, enjoying a cheap beer on the kitchen floor (you can see an actual key to the City of New Orleans hanging on her collar) - Rest In Peace, puss-puss . . . |
You think the smog in Los Angeles or Houston is bad? |
A New Orleans cemetery - people can't be buried underground or they come floating back up! |
How would you like to have a |
And this was a nice day, relatively speaking. |
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You can count on rain like this at least once, |
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January 1990 - Snow all over the BIG EASY! |
The A&P store Max would always get me to take him to. |
A distant view of the city skyline from the University |
My actual invite to the 1992 REX RECEPTION & PARTY. |
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