Algiers

No, New Orleans, Mississippi.

Algiers.

New Orleans? And then you say your great-grandparents are from Mississippi?

Yeah.

And this isn't part of the official record, but, uh, there's a book that came out called A, A Mother in History, allegedly by Marguerite Oswald.

And there's one line in that book, uh, where she says that she worked at the naval base in Algiers, Louisiana in the summer of 1942.

And that, that opens up a huge can of worms because if you were a naval ...

Uh, if you worked on a naval base in 1942, and you're a woman, and, um, th- that obviously means that you went to the Navy WAVES training program.

It's 6:00 PM.

And I have another event on November 17th at the Hubbell Library in Algiers.

It's 6:30, and that will, tho- both of those will be a book discussion and a signing.

Nice.

Yes, we're putting on the Ritz.

Where? With Concerned Citizens for Better Algiers.

That's in Algiers.

Right there off of Mardi Gras World on the West Bank.

That's right.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But anyway, we talked about so many different things and we're mixing issues, but I just want to make sure people understand putting on the Ritz is concerned citizens for a better Algiers annual gala.

should buy a table.

It's a great place for you to come and show your support for concerned citizens for a better Algiers.

Hobnob with all the people in the room.

That's correct.

So I'm very, very excited about the growth and where we're going with the agency.

I am preparing myself for whatever happens with government.

We also have 56 affordable rental units in Algiers.

We have four new constructions, and we have 26 undeveloped lots.

They assume that these are in New Orleans.

So they go and they find these addresses, one in New Orleans, the Broadway in New Orleans, and the Atlantic Avenue in Algiers, which is right across the river.

I guess there's a little river there.

I'm not too up on New Orleans geography.

And so it started out as a civilian thing.

And after a couple of years, you had the option of moving over to the real Navy once they started to let women in, I think in 46.

And so Marguerite Oswald, well, this woman who we say is Marguerite Oswald, writes in her book, A Mother in History, that she was a switchboard operator on the naval base in Algiers, Louisiana in 42, right? And once you come to comprehend the can of worms that that one sentence spills, it's like, oh my God, Marguerite Oswald joined the Navy.

She joined the WAVES program.

They come across two addresses in 1941 and 1942, 2136 Broadway and 227 Atlantic Avenue.

They assume that these are in New Orleans, so they go and they find these addresses, one in New Orleans, the Broadway in New Orleans, and the Atlantic Avenue in Algiers, which is right across the river.

I guess there's a little river there.

I'm not too up on New Orleans geography.

Um, and after a couple years, you had the option of moving over to the real Navy once they started to let women in, I think in '46.

Um, and so Marguerite Oswald alleged...

Well, this woman who we say is Marguerite Oswald, writes in her book, A Wo- A Mother in History, that she was a switchboard operator on the naval base in Algiers, Louisiana, in '42.

And once you, once you come to comprehend the can of worms that that one sentence spills, it's like, oh, my God, Marguerite Oswald joined the Navy.

I think my first memories of food were like kind of traveling around with my Italian stepdad.

And we were a lot on the West Bank or in old Algiers of New Orleans.

And he had an affinity for just divey strip malls where we would get, you know, crab on newspaper or the Vietnamese place that was next to the hair salon or the place where people got their nails done.

And the expectation, I think, down in New Orleans was that It's a pretty high standard, I guess, for food being delicious and everybody being able to cook.