LSU calls New Orleans’ charity hospitals unsalvageable
The two public hospitals in New Orleans — Charity and University hospitals — should be torn down because damage from Hurricane Katrina left them “dangerous, dangerous places,” the head of Louisiana’s charity hospital system said Wednesday.
That sucks. Charity Hospital is such a fantastic looking Art Deco building. This picture, taken after it was built, doesn’t really do it justice.
It would have looked a lot better if the Interstate didn’t run 5 feet away from it. As long as i’ve known it, its been covered in soot and dirt.
Notice also that its the public hospital. What public hospital will go up in its place, and where? Charity was just about in the exact center of the city, next to the Superdome, where the Pontchartrain Expressway (Hwy 90) and I-10 meet. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to see the next public hospital go up way out in New Orleans East to make room for a Hooters and a Target, just like the St. Thomas Housing Projects were moved to make room for the Wal-Mart.
To be fair, I really like the placement and style of the Wal-Mart on Tchoupitoulas; its hidden back among the warehouses away from the street, and done it a nice low brick style with New Orleans-style sidewalk posts. I hate what they did to the population, though. By shipping them out to New Orleans East, they further widened the gap between the haves and have-nots. There was even less for those people in NOEast. At least Uptown they had easier access to jobs in the CBD, French Quarter, and Uptown. In New Orleans East, they have the Lower 9th Ward and, er… um… Chalmette, maybe?
how long did you live there for? do you consider it your hometown?
Other than the occasional visit, I’ve been away from Toronto 18 months now and it’s weird to go back and see little changes and say “it USED to be this way it USED to be that way”.. like I’m referring to the olden days or something. If I went back home to something like this though, oh boy. Talk about how it USED to be.
I’m trying to think of something to make you laugh. Maybe I’ll post some naked pics. Of our cat.
I grew up there. I moved away in 1998 and have lived in Poland, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, DC, and Atlanta since then. Its still home to me. It always will be.
Believe me, we laugh a lot about all this. Sometimes its all you can do.
See? Laughing away, under a downed power line.
THIS IS ME FREAKING OUT JESUS GET AWAY FROM THAT!
zap.
that’ll light your cigarette..
I didn’t know you lived in Poland. Knew you’d visited but didn’t know you’d lived there.
I got drunk on a combination of Polish honey vodka and some other Polish vodka mixed with apple juice a couple of weeks back. Kyruptnik or something like that one of them was called. Was out with guys from work and we have a few Poles in our company. Went down nice, but came back up rougher about 6 hours later. lol
Yep, lived there for a year, from 1998-1999. I loved it.
Was the vodka Zubrowka? With a blade of grass in it and a bison on the bottle? Best vodka around. It’s often mixed with apple juice, and the folks I hung out with it called that drink a Tatonka.
now I feel stupid, I thought you meant like Poland, Pennsylvania like Paris, Texas, not the REAL Poland 😀
Ah, we had Zubrowka, yes, that was the apple juice stuff. I think the honey stuff was Kyruptnik or something. I’ll have to ask our resident Pole on Monday. This is the same guy who writes code using the variable name “dupa” all over the place. lol
Krupnik! That’s what it was called. Google is my friend