I’m talking late 60s. Wasn’t bad then- Elysian Fields and Rampart
John Kennedy Toole lived on the block. Warzone now. Creeps me out. Wouldn’t set foot there if they paid me.
I hear the late 60s was a great time there, I was there from 1989 to 2005. Even though it was pretty bad by then, I miss it terribly. Hubig’s bakery was right down the street, every morning we could smell the fried pies. Also the green coffee beans stacked in the warehouses. We were at St. Ferdinand and Dauphine. Bywater was just a few blocks away after the railroad tracks. It totally went into the toilet after Katrina. It’ll never be the same.