Six cop cars are surrounding a beat-up Chevy with a couple tattooed crackers sitting in the front seats. Coppers have tactical weapons out and are yelling at the car’s occupants. My lunch spot, where the rumpus is taking place, has lost its appeal so I motor on downriver, and deeper into the lower 9th Ward.
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Telly Hankton
His prisoner number is #589293.
Mr. Hankton became public enemy number one when New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a press conference decrying the murder of bar manager Curtis Matthews at Jazz Daiquiri bar on South Claiborne Avenue in October of 2011.
The mayor staged the presser on the neutral ground of Claiborne Avenue, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city.

Pableaux Johnson hard at work shooting a second line in Central City, New Orleans.

Shanghai Jimmy James Skaliski in 1976
“There was this beer sop Meskin food place called Shanghai Jimmy’s, and if we didn’t eat there two night a week our faces would break out…” said Sherrod.
Sherrod’s words became part of the lore of Shanghai Jimmy’s Texas Chili Rice.
Editor’s note: This post is from the ‘before-times.’ Orange Store is now a head shop that sells giant bluetooth speakers and dabbles in nearly-inedible po boys.

I was trying to save this report for much later in my 500 po boys series.
It’s ungodly how much bacon we eat at the Scrumptious house. We’ve been on a pork belly-curing tear for the last few months, and not coincidentally have been cooking and eating rashers of bacon on a daily basis.
We’re all going to die soon.

rl reeves jr’s frito pie recipe

Volunteer Fire Department Chili Con Carne Recipe

Village De ‘Lest neighborhood. New Orleans East.
They come to party.
How many neighborhood churches in New Orleans are vending $5 po boys, chargrilled oysters, and quarts of goat meat stew alongside raucous gambling booths?
Chef Larry G. Thompson Jr authors the finest shrimp po boy in New Orleans. Bear in mind, there are over 1000 places in our city selling shrimp po boys. Mr Shrimp rules them all.
