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Nola’s post on da Schegmann’s jogged many memories. I started to share one in a comment, but it grew out of hand, so it’s now a post.
When I worked at Martin Wine Cellar on Baronne Street while I was at UNO, I once went to the Schwegmann’s on Annunciation on my lunch hour to cash my paycheck. I remember they had these funky machines at the check cashing windows that would simultaneously take your picture and a picture of the check and your ID. While in line, I overheard a conversation between two black guys in the line for the window next to the one I was in. It went something like this:
Hey-what you doin’ here?
I gots my check, gonna cash it.
Oh yeah, check money is O.K., but dey ain’t no money like dat cash money!
Yeah you rite!
At the time I just thought it was kind of funny, a redundancy-based colloquialism, that a part of society saw fit to categorize wealth into “check money” and “cash money.&...
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As Maitri , Karen Gadbois and NolaNotes and many others have pointed out, Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes sustained major damage from Hurricane Gustav. Everyone in the small fishing and shrimping communities, like Dulac, Pointe Aux Chene and Chauvin are severely affected, most are now homeless. Hard-hit were the Houma indians, many of whom lived close or in the marsh were storm surge and wind were greatest.
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It was quite the strange trip yesterday, Labor Day 2008. Gustav beat the odds and made landfall at the exact spot the models had it going to 18 hours before, and within 50 miles or so of the models from 48 hours before. It was not nearly as strong as predicted, which was the reason we ultimately decided to stay after vacillating all day Sunday and keeping an eye on things. Once it became clear it was not a Cat 4 and it was not headed straight for us, we decided to stay put.
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Well, it’s two days since the Katrina Anniversary date and here we are expecting another hurricane, Gustav. The storm’s birth and slow growth and progress in the Caribbean have been torturing us for over a week now. It’s certainly distracted me from keeping up with my promised picture-a-day Katrina memorial.
The Twitter is all a-twitter; even a reporter from the Chicago Tribune who came down to cover the storm used Twitter to quickly connect with NOLA area sources. He... more
One effect of the storm that couldn’t go away quickly enough for some was the proliferation of signs. In the grand scheme of things—like the large pile of debris in the background, flooded homes, lost lives—the temporary signs advertising demolition and construction services that sprouted up and covered every available inch of neutral ground weren’t that big a deal. But civilization demands a clean neutral ground, so after a while the powers that be began screaming about them.
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