News Breaks in New Orleans

The corner of North Dourgenois Street and Bayou Road

Maybe it isn't that interesting, but it is interesting to us.  We live in the neighborhood.  They are fixing up that little building on the corner of North Dourgenois Street and Bayou Road.  It had the yellow walls, the party-tile roof, and the tree fallen on its rump end.  

It used to be a record store.  For as long as I have known it, it has been empty.  Before they started fixing it up, I walked in the open back door.  It is surprisingly spacious in there.

They have taken the walls, the floors, and most of the roof all off.  They are going to replace it.  Better.  They are going to rebuild it.  It looks like a skeletal pagoda.  It is a Chinese House.  For no other reason than it is.  It is like yak-a-mein or chow-chows.  

People say, "I'll meet you at that Chinese building on Bayou Road."  You know where they mean.  

I didn't take any pictures to document the carpentry that is happening up the road from us.  I was too busy thinking about something else.

Crawfish house on North Broad Street

The corn on the cob from Broadview Seafood Market, on North Broad Street between Columbus Street and Bayou Road, is the spiciest we have ever tasted.  

A votre sante,
La Belle Esplanade bed and breakfast.