GetBackToWork

It’s a shame to see. New Orleans once featured numerous local high end stores. Luxury department stores are struggling, with fewer chains left, and Saks is on the ropes.

Nothing today, even with black seats, feels hot like the old cars with vinyl interiors. Maybe they have more insulation and tinted/treated windows reflect better. Even the old “light” interiors would get hot. The old metal seatbelt latches would burn your leg off as a kid.

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Even after the Athletic used the football helmet. Should be a fun victory lap.

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Those fools will probably be even more convinced it’s something about football.

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wholesale stadium renovations

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Maybe they could just fix the two or three urinals in the concourse bathrooms that have been leaking all over the last 5 years.

Melting Pot Redux

There are two ways of looking at yesterday. Yes, there was a situation at the bank (first reported as robbery, then said to be a fraudulent check) on Jefferson. However, the police responded quickly, which prompted the suspects to shoot each other when apparently attempting to shoot the policeman. I'd be more concerned if they were robbing the bank, shooting people, and getting away with it.

ETA: So the updated news reports states the suspect shot his counterpart while trying to hide the gun. What I wrote above was what I heard yesterday from someone. The responding officer may not have known initially whether the suspect was attempting to target him or if the suspect accidentally shot himself. Either way, sounds like the police responded quickly.

Absolutely no more Monday night championship games for college football. It’s stupid trick to drive revenue, I don’t care what they say about the NFL. Baring games around holidays, college games should be on Saturday.

The girl on the end has really grown up

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When I was a kid in the late 60’s early 70’s, on Friday night we’d go to dinner. Either Phil’s on Government or Ruby’s under the Perkins Road Overpass. It wasn’t just the shrimp basket or steak burger, it was also the community gathering that made it special, and both were always lit when an LSU game was involved.

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BR takes a lot of flak, and much of it deserved, but if you live here, you can go places and always see friends. Ruby’s was like that and Phil’s still remains that way. Most cities you don’t have that sense of community. Started going to Phil’s on Government when I was a kid, now take mine to the new one. We always enjoy it.

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Next to the apartments? I think it was a convenience store.

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Believe it had a Fill a Sac in the corner when there was last something open. Over the years that building held a lot of things, though, and people remember it differently. IIRC, at one time or another it held a VW dealer, a night club, and some other operation. Billy Cannon ran his operation and the surveillance van was supposedly parked on the back street in College Town during the investigation.