Blast from the past! (New Orleans, Chalmette: appointed, school, living)

[Drouzin]

So I'm going thru some totes and lo and behold I found an old Schwegman's bag! There was even part of one with those cut out Halloween masks. I'm gonna frame the sucker and put it on the wall!.

[WestbankNOLA]

I wanted to rep, but I have to spread the love.
Memories.... Good times.

[Drouzin]

Thanks WB, (I'm also rep challenged). Sigh, that bag reminds me of all those times Dad would hang out and talk with Mr. J and his buddies at the bar while the frozen groceries melted and all us kids played hopscotch on the floor tiles. That and the yearly battles with untangling the Christmas lights.

[meemy]

Originally Posted by Drouzin

So I'm going thru some totes and lo and behold I found an old Schwegman's bag! There was even part of one with those cut out Halloween masks. I'm gonna frame the sucker and put it on the wall!.

Wow! Now you just gotta find a K&B bag to go with it!

Does anyone remember how the older yat ladies always used to pronounce it
Schwagg-a-mans? And they invariably called DH Holmes "Home-zez."

It wasn't until I moved Outta Town that I discovered that not all old ladies were sweet nor good cooks. Such a shock!

How wonderfully privileged we were to get to grow up in New Orleans.

[toupsee]

Originally Posted by Drouzin

Thanks WB, (I'm also rep challenged). Sigh, that bag reminds me of all those times Dad would hang out and talk with Mr. J and his buddies at the bar while the frozen groceries melted and all us kids played hopscotch on the floor tiles. That and the yearly battles with untangling the Christmas lights.

Yeah, really! How many grocery stores in America have a bar in them? Schwegmann's was unique. Give a million to go back.

[meemy]

So we got to talking in the family about your post and Schweggmanns (and lots of other "ain't dere no more" things/places/people) and we started arguing about which was the biggest of their supermarkets.

I've got my 5 bucks on Airline Highway...I remember my first visit; all those little street signs for the aisles...granted I was still young, but that place seemed massive to me, much bigger than Annunciation St which became a dangerous place (that's why we had to go further out) but was fine when I was a kid, and much bigger than the Metry one near Fat City.

My daughter insists that Gentilly was the biggest so now we need y'all to settle the bet for us. OK?

[Drouzin]

Originally Posted by meemy

Wow! Now you just gotta find a K&B bag to go with it!

Ooh! Good idea! I've got a book of K&B matches and an empty can of K&B beer that I got in some little junk shop in the Marigny. I'm thinking perhaps the kitchen will be the spot for this stuff.

I also found some really cool perfect attendance McDonough 23 certificates from 1929-1934. Interestingly enough they are labeled, "Orleans Parish School Board Lindbergh Certificate" and there is a picture of Charles Lindbergh at the top center. I'd heard they were ga ga for Lindbergh back then, but wow on perfect attendence certificates?!

I'd vote Gentilly, but then, like Pancho's, I wanted to live in the little offices upstairs so I'm partial. I was so disappointed with the one in Chalmette when we moved. The little office and shops just didn't seem to compare.

Geez I said Home-zez, and I am a year older! Oh man, I'm turning into a little old lady! IYou know if you think about it we add a lot of zez and ess on to store names K& Beez, Wal-Mart's, MBeez, Wool's Worth, (Spuds even says it in "Oh Brother Where Art Thou.")

Oh well, waaayyy past my bed time!

[angerdux]

Originally Posted by Drouzin

Ooh! Good idea! I've got a book of K&B matches and an empty can of K&B beer that I got in some little junk shop in the Marigny. I'm thinking perhaps the kitchen will be the spot for this stuff.

I also found some really cool perfect attendance McDonough 23 certificates from 1929-1934. Interestingly enough they are labeled, "Orleans Parish School Board Lindbergh Certificate" and there is a picture of Charles Lindbergh at the top center. I'd heard they were ga ga for Lindbergh back then, but wow on perfect attendence certificates?!

I'd vote Gentilly, but then, like Pancho's, I wanted to live in the little offices upstairs so I'm partial. I was so disappointed with the one in Chalmette when we moved. The little office and shops just didn't seem to compare.

Geez I said Home-zez, and I am a year older! Oh man, I'm turning into a little old lady! IYou know if you think about it we add a lot of zez and ess on to store names K& Beez, Wal-Mart's, MBeez, Wool's Worth, (Spuds even says it in "Oh Brother Where Art Thou.")

Oh well, waaayyy past my bed time!

That's some great stuff you have! Wow!

When I first moved down here 20 years ago, everyone thought I was from Chalmette. Nope--Brooklyn, NYC. Maybe my beloved rubber Maryjanes and faux leopard coat added to that 'cause now people just assume I was raised in the Irish Channel instead of St. Bernard. We LOVE Chalmette--Rocky and Carlos, oh man..

They trying to turn the A&P on Magazine into Breaux Mart. It's ridiculous. There's never any shopping carts 'cause at night they come and steal them! Now we've got all these women shopping in their diamonds and pearls, who never ever sweat. You wanna talk zombies? It's creepy as hell.

Schwegs on Airline was the first grocery store I ever went to in New Orleans. We were living on Esplanade, Marigny side back then. God, I loved that store. Remember the ladies' undergarment aisle? The girdles?