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Damn, benson. I know you have an adult daughter, but how old are you? LOL Burning your own garbage? That’s so early 20th century.
The Mississippi river is still a huge route for shipping, especially grains going out.
However, even there New Orleans has been loosing out. More and more grain shipments leave out of Baton Rouge or other ports between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Baton Rouge is the furthest deep-water port, and exporters tend to want to transfer the grain from barges to ships as soon as they can.
There used to be a lot of oil tankers, but those are being replaced by offshore oil terminals hooked up to pipelines that bypass New Orleans and go straight to the chemical plants upriver.
The combination of 100 winding river miles, high piloting costs, and an overall environment not friendly to business has driven out much of the other shipping from New Orleans.
benson — I remember as well how much dirtier the City used to be. Lots more trash on sidewalks then, dog poop too (pre pooper-scooper law). Soot had many sources — more manufacturing in City back then, less stringent clean air laws, garbage and coal burning as you mentioned, dirtier auto exhaust (particularly buses — just awful before there were trap oxidizers and such).
Funny thing, lech, is that it’s owned by Murdoch who, one would think, is sympathetic to your p.o.v. Gersh has certainly shown feet of clay in his stance on other issues – far less liberal than formerly.
i ate at Peaches last night for the first time. It was yummy. Even the baby stuffed his face. Prices not bad too. And we were able to park right out front. I will definitely return.
this was by far my fav place i went to while in NOLA.
http://www.bacchanalwine.com/
out in the ‘middle of nowhere’ according to our cab driver – food was outstanding (cheaper, less pretentious marlow and sons) and the band playing was great (not some crappy hipster rock band) and you buy wine at the store inside, and they cork it for you and give you glasses to chill outside on the patio. no outrageous markup
Benson, not to mention Times Square in the ’70s versus today (for better or for worse).
No one is even just a little bit surprised that the Brooklyn Paper bans people who disagree with their agenda from commenting?
I thought the American press was supposed to support the free exchange of ideas.
Right, MM? I knew about zydeco music, caijun life, the crazy racially mixed backwater, crime, food, and soulful sadness and the gradual loss of a way of life from those novels way before I ever went to NOLA. Some of the plots were impossibly convoluted but who cares.