On Sun 2008-Sep-28 13:33, Richard Webb (1:116/901) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RW> OUr whole area was well forested.  sO much so that at night, being
 RW> that our area had no street lights on most routes it was virtually 
 RW> pitch dark when you went outside at night.

There was no electric power from the Louisiana coast to Baton Rouge.  One
of my sons was living in Pontchatoula at the time and he ended up buying 6
power generators for his home.  I don't know where he got gasoline for them
unless a nearby service station was running on that kind of power.

 RW> ONe of the first things I did when we moved in was install
 RW> one of those motion lights out front so that as soon as we
 RW> pulled in with the van it came on.

I had to carry a flashlight around because as you already know, it gets
very black at night when no city lights are on, especially in that area.

RN> You were in Slidell at the time, weren't you?

 RW> YEp, had just moved there three weeks before.  wE'd quit managing 
 RW> the apartment complexes we managed in inner city NEw ORleans when 
 RW> the management company that we worked for, (Kathy actually on the 
 RW> payroll, me just assisting maintenance man when need arose and I 
 RW> had time) took away her medical benefits and accrued vacation and 
 RW> were doing some other unethical things.  WE'd moved into a small
 RW> apartment (too small) near WAshington and Broad streets which was 
 RW> totally inadequate and a friend of ours had this place in SLidell 
 RW> available which he'd inherited from his dad.  WE were considering 
 RW> buying it in fact.

Ah, Broad and Washington.  A really nice area at one time.  Businesses
today aren't the way they used to be.  I worked for a car dealership in New
Orleans for 17 years that was run properly, but I noticed since leaving
there, none of the rest of them are.  Employees nowadays are throwaways,
I'm sad to say.

 
Regards,

Roger 
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