Show your fellow LPSG's your hometown!

[b.c.]

This could be my adopted hometown! I love New Orleans so much. There's just so much personality to it! I actually looked at houses in the Garden District! I just wanted to be near Magazine Street! My kind of place!

I'm jealous.

Yes Ellie, Magazine is its own little world (as also are some other parts of town).

Sometime ago there used to be a lot of old furniture shops, old bookstores, and similar curiosities but in the last decade or so, it's seen a lot of development and renovations while trying to remain true to it's original charm. Property along the stretch must be at a premium about now, but there still ought to be a few finds nearby (which reminds me... missus and I are gonna have to get around to trying Chappy's).

Going to the Jazz Fest this year?

 

[EllieP]

Yes Ellie, Magazine is its own little world (as also are some other parts of town).

Sometime ago there used to be a lot of old furniture shops, old bookstores, and similar curiosities (especially at the upper end) but in the last decade or so, it's seen a lot of development and renovations while trying to remain true to it's original charm. Property along the stretch must be at a premium about now, but there still ought to be a few finds nearby (reminds me, missus and I are gonna have to get around to trying Chappy's).

Going to the Jazz Fest this year?

Definitely going to Jazz Fest. We're going the second weekend. Got an airbnb in the Lower Garden District. Very excited! As always.

 

[Oxnard]

Yes Ellie, Magazine is its own little world (as also are some other parts of town).

Sometime ago there used to be a lot of old furniture shops, old bookstores, and similar curiosities but in the last decade or so, it's seen a lot of development and renovations while trying to remain true to it's original charm. Property along the stretch must be at a premium about now, but there still ought to be a few finds nearby (which reminds me... missus and I are gonna have to get around to trying Chappy's).

Going to the Jazz Fest this year?

Gentrification is a bitch.

 

[b.c.]

Gentrification is a bitch.

Well, in our case, perhaps one with a double edged sword.

 

[devairenc]

Southeastern North Carolina Coast

 

[Oxnard]

Well, in our case, perhaps one with a double edged sword.

If cities made more of an effort to make affordable housing available to the people who deliver pizzas and mop the floors, then gentrification would not be an issue at all.

Gentrification is the inevitable result of various demographic changes that are unavoidable in most cities, but because of the problems many cities have with affordable housing, gentrification often results in an overall reduction in the amount of affordable housing available to those who need it. The fact that the bottom end of the pay scale is not keeping up with inflation makes all of this worse.

The case of New Orleans is particular. Here, gentrification was done on a massive scale quite deliberately. The Bush administration shipped large numbers of poor people to other parts of the country in the immediate wake of the flood and did not move them back later.

 

[ozwestcoastboy]

My hometown is Perth, Western Australia . . . the world's most geographically isolated capital city

 

[b.c.]

If cities made more of an effort to make affordable housing available to the people who deliver pizzas and mop the floors, then gentrification would not be an issue at all.

Gentrification is the inevitable result of various demographic changes that are unavoidable in most cities, but because of the problems many cities have with affordable housing, gentrification often results in an overall reduction in the amount of affordable housing available to those who need it. The fact that the bottom end of the pay scale is not keeping up with inflation makes all of this worse.

The case of New Orleans is particular. Here, gentrification was done on a massive scale quite deliberately. The Bush administration shipped large numbers of poor people to other parts of the country in the immediate wake of the flood and did not move them back later.

And a topic BETTER suited for the POLITICS section, I would think.

Definitely going to Jazz Fest. We're going the second weekend. Got an airbnb in the Lower Garden District. Very excited! As always.

Good to hear, Ellie. We have not yet acquired our tickets yet... hoping to go the first weekend.

 

[alcor972]

About 30 kilometers… 20 miles… northwestward from my home, there is my volcano… la Montagne Pelée… Mount Pelée…

The photo taken one year and a half ago toward the north shows a good contrast between the windward and the leeward slopes of the volcano… relatively to the usual trade winds flow…

To the east… a moist air layer is rounding the mountain and progresses with difficulties toward the west as it must encounter drier conditions… which could explain why it evaporates and why its base become higher…

The summit of Mount Pelée is near 1 397 meters… about 4,000 feet…

So the base of the cumulus clouds in the moist air layer must be near 800 meters… less than 3,000 feet…

I think it’s a little low… and maybe previous recent rainfalls may explain the presence of this layer… Higher in the sky… toward the north… isolated mid-level clouds indeed seem being the remnants of previous more powerful convective clouds…

On the may 8th 1902… during a very active phase of a magmatic eruption… the volcano produced a terrible… devastating pyroclastic flow… nuée ardente… which totally ruined and destroyed one of the two main towns of my island…

About 28,000 people died that day in less than 5 minutes… hundreds were injured at the periphery of the lethal/incandescent cloud… black people… white people… French speaking people… strangers too as several ships of different countries present in the bay have sunk under the cloud…

Wow… what a lesson from nature…

This is by far my preferred spot in my island… and I’m happy to share it with you my LPSG fellows…

I’ve added a photo from June 1902… one month after the disaster… taken by an American man called Angelo Hellprin…

Thanks…

 

[Oxnard]

And a topic BETTER suited for the POLITICS section, I would think.



Good to hear, Ellie. We have not yet acquired our tickets yet... hoping to go the first weekend.

Fair enough.

 

[b.c.]

...yep...

 

[Fanon]

The Kauffman Center. It's an incredibly beautiful building with a auditorium for the city's ballet company on the left and the city's orchestra on the right.

Inside the Kanas City Ballet's Bolender Centre for Dance and Creativity. I tried out for this school years ago and cracked under pressure.

Science City

Kansas City Plaza with it's most iconic fountain at the forefront.

Gates' BBQ. If you come to KC and haven't had our BBQ...then fuck you! lol 'Cause it's literally the best...I personally would recommend Gates.

Winstead Skyscraper. You're not a true Kansas Citian if you haven't tried finishing one of these.

Power and Light District. Great place to get fuck'd up.

But don't get too carried away because the KC po-po don't play. They'll pull you're ass over for bullshit.

The Lincoln Memorial

and Union Station. There's a hell of a lot more, but I ain't got the time.

 

[deleted871301]

This is where I live... Cape Town, South Africa

 

[twoton]

Here are two from my hometown. One is current, the other is a historical photo that's bound to get some attention around here.

 

[desilover]

 

[EllieP]

Yes Ellie, Magazine is its own little world (as also are some other parts of town).

Sometime ago there used to be a lot of old furniture shops, old bookstores, and similar curiosities but in the last decade or so, it's seen a lot of development and renovations while trying to remain true to it's original charm. Property along the stretch must be at a premium about now, but there still ought to be a few finds nearby (which reminds me... missus and I are gonna have to get around to trying Chappy's).

Going to the Jazz Fest this year?

Well, Jazz Fest may be a bust for me this year. I just took on a new project that's killing my calendar! And I'm crying.

 

[b.c.]

Well, Jazz Fest may be a bust for me this year. I just took on a new project that's killing my calendar! And I'm crying.

Oh no Ellie! Sorry to hear that because I know you enjoy going, and so look forward to it. That happened to us one year, oddly, the first time we ever had tickets for two weekends. We ended up having to sell them all because of stuff we had to attend to in Houston.

For this one, we did manage to acquire tickets, if (knock on wood) nothing happens between now and then. Anyway, hope you can find a way to make it down here, Ellie. Good luck.

 

[deleted871301]

Our beautiful Table Mountain and Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was a political prisoner. Taken from Bloubergstrand.

Plane just an added feature as it flew over at that moment... haha!

 

[twoton]

Here's a slightly different view of my hometown:
www.post-gazette.com: Saturday Diary: Pittsburgh ver-n’at-cular

 

[ronin001]