New Orleans

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 8:40pm

I remember New Orleans when I went cross country by bus in 1974

I loved it but not the oppresive heat (July) . I am reading a novel now (Crusader's Cross) which takes place in & around there. It brings back memories of places I went te. There are a whole series of novels that take place there with the same protagonist. The author is James Lee Burke. They are quite good & I recommend them to all.

I would go back once everything is back to normal. Hopefully, that will be soon but it does look grim now

Updated On: 9/2/05 at 08:40 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 8:44pm

Why, did something happen there?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 8:47pm

It rained, a little.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 9:03pm

Oh, well, I'm sure everything will be back to normal soon. Now I'm climbing back into my warm bath of nostalgia.

Why, I remember when a pickel in the barrel cost 2 cents! I wasn't knee-high to a knuckle bone, but I remember it as if 'twas just the other day.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 9:06pm

What kept you, Namo ?

It is like a shark trolling the waters looking for a swimmer the way you wait for me to post, on any subject , so you can go off on me.

If it makes you happy, knowing I have no idea what you are saying, knock yourself out. Enjoy. If it is therapuetic for you by all means do it

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 9:08pm

I swear back then a jawbreaker was the size of a reg-yee-lation pool ball, not these dag blumb b.b.-sized things the kids are so pleased by today. These kids are sissies today, all there parents worried about choking hazards. In my day we choked and we liiiiiiiiiked it.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 9:09pm

And I bought gas for my old Rambler sedan for 19 cents/gal

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 9:13pm

Now you're talking, Tommyboy. Pull up a rocker and let me hand you a whittlin stick. And speaking of sticks, remember when Pixie Sticks were three sents and six feet long? Not these Irish Curse-sized pieces of crap they sell today.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 9:14pm

Ah the old Nash Rambler

It brings back memories & I do not even drive

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 11:56pm

Lest we forget that New Orleans is also the setting of the hilarious novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" which is so funny and so sad at the same time.