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To: carranza2 who wrote (71959)	9/20/2004 11:16:46 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

>>There have been some upscale apartments and a controversial Wal-Mart built in the neighborhood. That's good, I guess. I drove around New Orleans a bit during last visit to NO, in June, but not past there. Last time I remember being there was 1985, when I road for an evening with an NOPD cop, set up by Dr. Houck, who was at that time teaching ConCrimPro at Tulane. Anybody who wanted to could ride with a cop for one shift. I pointed out the windows to the apartment I thought we lived in, and she said they had taken some kids out of there a month or two earlier, no adults, no food, no sheets on the beds, no toilet paper in the bathrooms. She said after the kids when to the toilet they wiped with their fingers and then wiped their fingers on the walls. When we lived there, odd as it must seem - it certainly seems odd to me in retrospect - we had a full time maid who watched us while my mother was at work. At one point she was a legal secretary at one of the biggest law firms in the city -- you'd know the name of the firm if I told you. At another point she was a medical secretary for an orthopedic surgeon. Growing up there was just like growing up in any other apartment complex, but the neighborhood was very blue collar.