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Generic Uptown, NO History, Geology, Saints, Dogs Bruh. Mainly about New Orleans for New Orleanians
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I go by here all the time, seen a guy with a lawnmower on the levee, but never got it till I was looking in GoogleEarth. Algiers
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OMG, they have no idea
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The 2nd District Gerrymander is impressive in its attention to detail
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Atchafalaya Restaurant, 1940s and 2020s. (Hey, Atchafalaya, put the awning back up, TK)
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Famous 1901 photo of 1000 block Royal during Carnival (Rex flag). Buildings and cast iron galleries were the subject in 1901, but...
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@amandadeibert
My dad was cheap; I inherited that. Used to tell me got good deal on my childhood home due to gruesome murder there. Thought he was joking. 50 years on: newspaper internet archives - all true: guy butchered his wife n 2 kids there before killing self
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Guess I should figure out how to post this backwards. Big Boy 4114 backing into the Fly just now
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My landlady (right) made this when we had a joint party. I rented the left side of her dbl shotgun. In 2005, I moved into her side to give flooded out friends a place. Now we’re married
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More old Magazine St - looking uptown from just below State St, 1948 - Drug store on left only recently closed (now Picnic); present Reginelli's on right; Old Shell station on uptown lakeside corner was there until recently; Clement's on uptown riverside corner remains
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Krewe of Carrollton's longest parade (7.5 miles) was in 1973, riding in on Oak from den, to Carrollton, Earhart, NC Francis bridge, Tulane, Canal, St Charles to St Joseph and back to Canal, through the Quarter on Royal and St Ann to the Auditorium
#Bonkers
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Unusual 1930s aerial view down new Airline Hwy towards N.O. from just west of Metairie Rd terminus
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~100 year-old wood block “silent pavement” in good condition below broken asphalt on Hurst St uptown near park
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Krewe of Carrollton parades today starting at noon from Perrier and Napoleon heading downtown on the same route as every other parade. Here's a map showing pre-war routes (1924-1941) when in was in the neighborhood and rode on Mardi Gras Day
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Chep Morrison's City Hall coexisted briefly with Girod St Cemetery
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Just a reminder: New Orleans was offshore when the Giza pyramids were built
@TheGuyN3xtDoor
@TimeOutLondon
Here's a succinct review for lay-persons on recent historical geology of New Orleans area
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Bultman residence (1939), next door to their funeral home, present Fresh Market, Louisiana Avenue. A massive 7-bay center hall still owned by the family
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Hey New Orleans, if you can, try to be outside for a bit. Make a place in your memory for this weather
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Google streetview captures my late father, age 93, at my childhood home that he bought in 1960
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So Chewbacchus isn’t my thing, but city is full on assaulting MG; if 2023 is post pandemmy, all the Krewe’s have to go full subversive Zulu 1923 do what you wanna, try and stop me
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Ok, new diversion for lockdown. Post or DM me your address at an old New Orleans house and I will do a bit of easy online research about the house, highlighting the worst crimes
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I thought Foster was bad, Jindal was a disaster; I have no words looking forward
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Talk about a survivor. This live oak, 3’ from Magazine St measures 6’7” in diameter. Likely late 1700s-earliest 1800s. Every auto ever in the city has thundered over its roots. Healthy AF
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100+ yr old wood block pavement peaking through damaged asphalt on Hurst, way uptown. Cypress or cedar? Appears to be in good shape
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Thor to NolaTwitter: guess you’re wondering why I called you all together this morning
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Send everyone a filled up debit card, give us a week to stock up, enforce full 3 week nationwide strict stay-at-home, treat and isolate the sick and their household, curve crushed
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Pontchartrain Beach 1945 looking all the way down Elysian Fields
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Live Oak consuming an iron fence post from a long gone fence in front of a long gone house. Touro neighborhood
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Here's the 1894 Map of Audubon Park, preserved in the Olmsted Bros archives, georeferenced and made transparent on Google Earth. Many interesting things
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Typical 2020 day: starts with a power outage during a global pandemic lockdown and ends with toxic smoke from a refinery fire. Plus river rising and hurricane season on the way. Oh, also meteor showers and super volcanos and global warming ...
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Q: When is the best time to plant a tree?
A: 120 years ago, then a Green Wave comes
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Still thriving section of Magazine looking down from 9th St 1953 and 2023
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One Shell Square, tallest building in La under construction c. 1972. Supported by 210' pre-cast, pre-stressed, concrete friction piles
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TBH, I’m more worried that all these people are routinely carrying guns in their vehicles than they’re getting robbed
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Wait a minute while I anxiously drive my car up the two-foot-high median strip in midtown
Anxiety grips New Orleans as residents flee the city, bracing for heavy rain and hurricane-force winds
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Ventured out by bike this am. First time below Calliope since March. Only locals wearing masks. Too many unmasked tourists.
#UptownBubble
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Looking down Magazine from Louisiana, 1950. Garden Theater is large building on right, still extant, as is "the Orphanage seen in the distance on riverside of Magazine
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1958 - French Market coffee stand begins calling doughnuts "beignets"
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Jaysus, the things people will do to a modest riverside cottage; pony up the $’s
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More Westwego (1950). You could take the Walnut St Ferry from Uptown and get Shrimp right off the boats on the Company Canal. Two restaurants on the batture at the Ferry Landing
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Modest and beautiful garden district sidehall cottage in the golden hour
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OMG, the
@SeanPayton
feed responding to all the current and former Saints players is off-the-hook - great send-off. Thanks Sean
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Hey
@freddiekingiii
, you let daiquiri and t-shirt shops wreck the FQ and it's gone forever, never coming back - it's a legacy that defines the city. Who's paying you?
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Miraculously, St John the Baptist church on OCH survived this attempt to devour it by Pontchartrain Expressway construction in 1957. Curved ramps built then removed decades later
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Brother in law flying into town early tomorrow.
Me: ok, there’s no water or bathrooms at the airport, but the streets will be flooded, so, see you soon
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Looks like multiple historic New Orleans street grids
What happens when two beautiful patterns combine to form a new one? Patterned ground on point bars of a
#meandering
channel in the delta of the Indigirka River, Siberia
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An infamous funeral was held in the front parlor here in 1934 when the disputing heirs got into a scuffle that resulted in overturning the coffin and dumping the decedent on the floor. These gasoliers have seen some stuff
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Long lost batture camps, Greenville just above Audubon Park, 1951
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Children ages 5-11 will be required to show proof of vaccination to enter bars in Orleans Parish after Jan 3rd
#vaxxup
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View up Magazine from Louisiana - all gone except the awning at Poke Loa - Magnolia/Mobilgas station is now CVS - bar on Riverside/Uptown corner is now a parking lot
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Government Wharf in 3d District (between Piety & Desire) 1881 - site of Crescent Park, still with battered wharves. Very little flood protection apparent
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Avenue Pub was a bar by 1907, apartments upstairs. John La Rosa offered oysters, wines, liquors, cigars, and a ladies' parlor
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If you live in an old house in NO, there’s about a 50% chance of one or more murders there. Search address on NOPL portal to Newsbank
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OK, I have to get to know these folks who have recreated c 1870s Russ Block pavement for their driveway way uptown. Including 45 deg setting and mortar less
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I promise not to complain next August when it's eleventy hundred degrees out for 4 weeks
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Completed vaccination by census tract. Central City, NO East, Lower9, Algiers lagging, but look at Chalmette
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Just moved back to generic uptown from way-uptown rental. Got a nice welcome, when I walked down my sidehall and looked out my window to see a dude peeing on the side of my house at 8:30 am; home again
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So, just got news from DPW. They didn't expect RR ties and all work has stopped until they figure out how to remove them. They also don't now how far down Magazine from Leake that they extend
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@th3_clutch
I'm sorry, he will never get his due from national media, but Taysom maybe the absolute best football player in the league. Spectacular highlight reel of all phases
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Reframing parts of this Garden District dbl gallery house. Removed all the weatherboards at once, yikes. Lots of lathe and plaster
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Demario Davis pre-game speech transcript according to
@JeffDuncan_
at The Athletic "When one wolf eats, all the wolves eat"
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