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23 December 2005 Coleen Perilloux Landry

Ruins of West End at Sunset

West End is a small area of New Orleans on Lake Pontchartrain across the 17th Street Canal from Jefferson Parish.
The wind driven water must have been horrendous here. The Bruning house which sat on the small inlet had been there for 100 years and had withstood many hurricanes. Not a stick of it was found. Seafood restaurants rested on the pilings and on Friday nights families feasted on the bounties of the same sea that destroyed not only the restaurants but thousands of homes and 80 per cent of New Orleans.


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Richard Carriere Jr. 30-Aug-2024 18:46
Amazingly my mother,father and I were the last people to eat at the Bruning restaurant.
My mother had survived a multi week ordeal with health issues and I was making the most of our time on earth together. Litterally. It had been many years since we had eaten at any of the restaurants at West End and so I chose to change that. The former nearby Fitzgerald's was the first place I recall ever eating a boiled blue crab as a young child.
Lisa Thorsen 08-Sep-2006 06:22
This shot makes me want to cry. I was devastated when Bruning's was lost in Georges. Now this. Our lives will never be the same here. May our memories of New Orleans, pre-Katrina, remain with us forever.
Jola Dziubinska25-Dec-2005 13:59
Sad story, but very good your photo. Coleen.
Have a Happy Season.
laine8225-Dec-2005 10:27
A sadly beautiful place. When you looks at that peaceful scene it's hard to imagine how bad that night was.
Elaine (etfitz)25-Dec-2005 05:21
Incredible framing of a very beautiful but sad scene!
Robin Reid25-Dec-2005 03:33
It was an incredible disaster and you are doing an excellent job of documenting in a heartfelt way.