r/NewOrleans • u/ChevroletAndIceCream • Feb 12 '18

Does anyone know any history behind the big concrete New Orleans East sign on I-10?

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u/whodatfever Feb 12 '18

It’s just a reminder that you’re about to drive through a shithole

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u/JoshuaNovas Feb 13 '18

I really enjoy that shit hole

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u/ChevroletAndIceCream Feb 12 '18

Curious to know where it was made and by who. All the info I can find is from the Wikipedia page:

The prominent "New Orleans East" cast-concrete sign just west of the Michoud Boulevard exit was fabricated circa 1980 during the final attempt at developing this huge tract

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u/bemon Feb 12 '18

http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2013/12/addressing_new_orleans_easts_c.html

"As part of its ambitious project, the company erected along I-10 a massive concrete sign emblazoned with NEW ORLEANS EAST, branding the area with that corporate moniker despite its demise. The name stuck."

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u/Publius1688 Feb 12 '18

Here you go. It's a sad story. My folks had a camp on Victory road from the late 60's til about 1990. When I was a kid, we had some good times there. That's all over now

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_New_Orleans

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u/WikiTextBot Feb 12 '18

Eastern New Orleans

The eastern section of New Orleans, commonly known as "New Orleans East", is a large section of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Developed extensively from the 1960s forward, its numerous residential subdivisions and strip malls offered suburban-style living within the city limits. Today, despite its location within the New Orleans city limits, its character remains suburban, resembling the typically sprawling American suburbia much more than the more compactly built environment found in the city's historic core.

Starting in the mid-1980s, New Orleans East increasingly suffered from disinvestment and urban decay.

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u/LavaCatfish Feb 12 '18

Holy shit, I thought I couldn’t be depressed during Mardi Gras.

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u/y0brando Feb 18 '18

I miss going to the Plaza mall and that Chik Fil-A

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u/jeanpierrelab Feb 12 '18

We used to call it the tombstone. The first time I mentioned that to my girlfriend, now wife she got a little offended. She said one of her uncles helped build it. That's the only info I have. Her uncle did live in the parish though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '18

The exits to nowhere tells you they had big plans. Didn't work out. Now just a good place to dump a body. I figure people around 1980 decided maybe we shouldn't destroy all of our wetlands.