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From: "mclou" <>
Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN-L] Houses on DeSaix Blvd.
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 00:23:30 -0600
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If memory serves me correctly, I believe it was in 1942 that my young
friends and I loitered in the background as they blew up the tree stumps on
the strip of land between Gentilly and Bayou St.John that became Desaix
Blvd. Previously it had been our short cut to City Park. I remember the
construction of the houses because I was madly in love with a 13-year-old
girl who resided in one.

JM


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Riecke" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: [LAORLEAN-L] Houses on DeSaix Blvd.


> Hi Vic and All,
> I have some info on DeSaix Bvd. It was developed before WWII. The reason I
> know this is that my Father (L.P.Smith) and his Father (A.L.Smith) did the
> building of houses on DeSaix. Daddy told me that he had about 15 houses
for
> sale on DeSaix when the was started and the government put a halt to all
> house sales. He was forced to rent the houses. This turned out to be a
> blessing in the long run because after the war he was able to sell the
> property and houses for more than he would be able to before the war. This
> helped pull him out of the trouble he was in during the Depression. He
also
> got a job building some barracks in back of DeSaix. He told me the name
but
> I forgot.
> Karen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maurice Duvic Sr." <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:30 PM
> Subject: [LAORLEAN-L] Re: LAORLEAN-D Digest V02 #39.. Alfred Wild's re
Camp
> Nicholls.
>
>
> > Netters: I BELIEVE, somewhere along Bayou St. John, where Alfred talks
> > about - between Esplanade and the Southern Ry tracks - during WWII the
> > U.S. Navy, I believe, built some barracks-looking apartment buildings
> > for married personnel assigned to the Navy station on the lake-front.
> > (I believe DeSaix Blvd was developed right after WW II.)
> >
>

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