A New Orleans Lexicon - rare 1980 views of New Orleans

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  • Опубліковано 21 лют 2008
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  • @gretchenrieth5248
    @gretchenrieth5248 5 років тому +96

    The guy by himself in the grey suit is MY DAD! In a million years, I never thought I would see this again. I'd love to know where it came from. I do remember when they would play it on WYES...almost 40 years ago. My sisters and I would get so excited to see it. What a blast from the past. Thanks for posting!

    • @cnam2000
      @cnam2000  5 років тому +14

      Hi, Gretchen - so happy to hear this! Email us at mail@cnam.com and we can get you the full footage of your dad from 1980!

    • @frankishrebellion9479
      @frankishrebellion9479 4 роки тому +1

      liar lol

    • @Gambino_Crime_Family
      @Gambino_Crime_Family 4 роки тому +6

      Staltrim not everyone is a online troll. He could be speaking the truth.

    • @frankishrebellion9479
      @frankishrebellion9479 4 роки тому

      @@Gambino_Crime_Family most old people are pathological liars to get a kick online. you don't understand.

    • @Gambino_Crime_Family
      @Gambino_Crime_Family 4 роки тому

      Staltrim “you don’t understand”, i doubt you know me kid.

  • @yes4albert
    @yes4albert 16 років тому +53

    I'm really loving all this. Thank God our country is full of such diversity and differences in languages, dialects and expressions. I hope this doesn't change. God bless New Orleans.

  • @alison2649
    @alison2649 4 роки тому +15

    Fascinating! I’m not sure what year this was filmed but I think we all can agree that bell-pepper caught on for the rest of the country. I’m in So-Cal and we call them bell peppers.

  • @dapunkof1975
    @dapunkof1975 16 років тому +19

    I love your accents, greetings from Houston.

  • @joshuapigott6267
    @joshuapigott6267 Рік тому +3

    Days that’s long gone. ❤

  • @mchii6633
    @mchii6633 Рік тому +2

    We used to sneak in to the Do Drive In when I was a kid. It's a shopping center and condos now.

  • @Pippi-Longstocking
    @Pippi-Longstocking Рік тому +3

    Who’s here because this was just posted on Imgur? I loved this! I’d love to see more videos like this.

  • @zoesdada8923
    @zoesdada8923 4 роки тому +36

    This New Orleans, the New Orleans we grew up in is not there anymore. The flavor and soul is gone from our city.

    • @quietlabour491
      @quietlabour491 Рік тому +3

      Just wrote a comment about that before reading yours.Yes it's heart breaking what has been lost.

    • @suziewhattley3917
      @suziewhattley3917 Рік тому +5

      Yep. The tourism industry really ruined it when AirBNB came in. RIP NOLA.

    • @angelwishes3213
      @angelwishes3213 8 місяців тому

      That's for sure, slowly dying out

    • @brianmurphy1000
      @brianmurphy1000 3 місяці тому

      Just got to move across Jackson

    • @CreoleLadyMarmalade
      @CreoleLadyMarmalade 3 місяці тому

      You not even lying 😫😫

  • @jslack8973
    @jslack8973 4 роки тому +11

    the middle is the neutral ground . We make groceries and make sure to get a cold drink and po boy. I wish my city wasn’t dying 😒

    • @jalenjohnson9705
      @jalenjohnson9705 3 роки тому +1

      We gotta make home black again and teach the youth our foods and traditions

  • @Alien_Nukes
    @Alien_Nukes 9 місяців тому +1

    This video is gold , respect from Chicago. Love these retro videos

  • @fqexpat
    @fqexpat 4 роки тому +5

    Yeah, you rite. Ain't many of us left.

  • @jordanthomas3346
    @jordanthomas3346 3 роки тому +7

    When he asked, "if you wanted everything on a poboy how would you ask for it?" I paused the video and said to myself, "dressed." When I played the video and the guy said dressed I damn near fell over laughing. NOLA.

  • @venom5610
    @venom5610 11 років тому +5

    this is awesome. a look into the past.

  • @nola305
    @nola305 3 роки тому +6

    New Orleans is the only place that calls a water hose or garden hose a "hose pipe", if you go to any other city and call it that, they'll look at you funny, lol. 😂

  • @Chipper6811
    @Chipper6811 4 роки тому +17

    Glad that my husband's family still has the Yat sound, but every time we go into New Orleans, the dialect is not as strong. Instead, we hear more of the dull monotonous tone that is used in TV so much. Don't forget the overuse and abuse of the word "like", which is used after every single word.

    • @IslenoGutierrez
      @IslenoGutierrez 3 роки тому +5

      Because the yat accent is the native-born local white New Orleans accent and New Orleans had a white flight happen and by the 1990’s most of the local whites left for the surrounding suburbs so now the yat accent is strong in the suburbs but weak in the city where it was born because local whites went from being the majority to now a minority in the city and since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, there has been an influx wave of out-of-town whites that has settled the city and they sure don’t have yat accents.

    • @jalenjohnson9705
      @jalenjohnson9705 3 роки тому +2

      The new orleans accent has changed but it also depends on where you at in the city somebody from the garden district will not sound like somebody from 9th ward

    • @IslenoGutierrez
      @IslenoGutierrez 3 роки тому +2

      @@jalenjohnson9705 especially now...because this video was taken during a time when New a Orleans was going through a demographic change...

    • @Nullybk
      @Nullybk Рік тому

      @@IslenoGutierrez whites started to move out

  • @comment3711
    @comment3711 4 роки тому +4

    Charming series!

  • @thomasward00
    @thomasward00 15 років тому +2

    My grandpa used to take me to Parsols when I was a little kid, those were the best in the city

  • @MarkusDarkscribe
    @MarkusDarkscribe 4 роки тому +2

    I remember when this aired.

  • @hawktalon7890
    @hawktalon7890 2 місяці тому +1

    I can relate to that guy that loved stuffed peppers.

  • @moustachetwirlingvillian616
    @moustachetwirlingvillian616 11 років тому +7

    i love how new orleans people say "make groceries" :)

  • @liuchaquan
    @liuchaquan 14 років тому +8

    I grew up saying I got a hickey when I got hit on the head...never knew about the "passion mark" reference til I got some puberty.

    • @jslack8973
      @jslack8973 4 роки тому +2

      Yes lol me too never knew a hickey was a passion mark til I went to the military 😂

  • @WILLIAMCHANEL
    @WILLIAMCHANEL 15 років тому +12

    Why on earth would people be ugly about the way we speak here? Just don't speak like us if you don't like it. XO

    • @devilred1971
      @devilred1971 5 років тому

      WILLIAMCHANEL ya you Right! Dat’s what I’m talkin about!

  • @liuchaquan
    @liuchaquan 14 років тому +2

    I used to see this all the time on WYES - 12 growing up...what's up w/ this copyright nonsense?!!! Audio has been disabled because there was some un-cleared song?!!! screw yr lawyers! - I want to hear this again!

  • @bthor76
    @bthor76 16 років тому +2

    I love the way the black chick at 5:25 corrects herself about a bump on the head. Her expression is great.

  • @eddenoy321
    @eddenoy321 7 років тому +8

    Lived in France a few years and if "langiappe" ever was a word there, I never heard it used or found anyone who understood it. But it may well have been one a very long time ago.

    • @derlinclaire1778
      @derlinclaire1778 6 років тому +7

      My dear friend from what I read in the dictionary about the word Lagniappe,they describe it as being an American French word.Which means that it probably originated right here in Louisiana,and not France.Furthermore,it stated that in Lagnipe was derived from the American Spanish expression " La Napa";lit,"The Gift".So,being a locally derived term,Lagniappe may never have been widely used overseas in France,friend.It,s original definition wad that it was a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase.Later,it broadly came to mean something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure; in other words,"Something extra",my dear friend.Merci beaucoup,mon Cher a,i,and God bless you,and kindly keep you well & safe.

    • @derlinclaire1778
      @derlinclaire1778 6 років тому +2

      I meant "Mon Cher ami".

  • @microbios8586
    @microbios8586 4 роки тому +2

    God bless my grandparents. They say this same shit.

  • @devilred1971
    @devilred1971 5 років тому +3

    Naturally Nawlins! Making Groceries Schwegmanns style!

  • @philomelodia
    @philomelodia 6 років тому

    Very interesting.

  • @blackninja504
    @blackninja504 8 років тому +6

    my aunt @6:00

  • @marty-bc2cf
    @marty-bc2cf 3 роки тому +4

    Back when the world made sense

    • @joot78
      @joot78 Рік тому +2

      Hon, the world never made a lick of sense, and never will.

  • @Sinjinator
    @Sinjinator 15 років тому +5

    yeah, i thought a Hickey is on yer neck, and gettin hurt on the head is a Bobo.

  • @SauceGoddessCe
    @SauceGoddessCe 2 роки тому

    That was a good time lol

  • @LenoraRoseen
    @LenoraRoseen 2 роки тому

    I cannot discern what the woman is saying at 3:57. Can someone please enlighten me?

    • @theladyniek
      @theladyniek Рік тому +1

      "Sandwiches for Alvarez?" She's trying to find the table to take them to

  • @whoadyyaheardme2751
    @whoadyyaheardme2751 7 років тому +5

    @2:10 boy our women are sensual lemme tell ya!!

    • @derlinclaire1778
      @derlinclaire1778 6 років тому +1

      Yes,the brunette lady st 2:10 was quite pretty,one would say.God bless her.

  • @charjl96
    @charjl96 Рік тому

    The only accent I don't recognize is the narrator's

  • @7thWardCreole
    @7thWardCreole 3 роки тому

    Wait, what? It’s not called a hickey? Then what do you call it?

  • @tonywalton1052
    @tonywalton1052 6 років тому

    Wheyat bra

  • @downsouth420
    @downsouth420 5 років тому +3

    One thing that pisses me off is when people say "poor boy". It's po' boy. My family's been in New Orleans for 150 years, we call it po boy.

    • @Dragoncam13
      @Dragoncam13 5 років тому

      Everyone that lives in SWLA call it a Po'boy too

    • @terryadcock3574
      @terryadcock3574 3 роки тому +1

      My former boss was old money Uptown, and he called them poor boys. The Uptowners have their own, much more proper and refined, dialect.

    • @terryadcock3574
      @terryadcock3574 2 роки тому +1

      @@dannetterousseau4095 he is "not informed" because he called them poor boys? That actually IS the original name. My late grandmother, born in 1905 and definitely not from money or Uptown, called them that.

  • @DNSKansas
    @DNSKansas 4 роки тому +4

    They're called bell peppers in other parts of the United States, not just NOLA.

    • @terryadcock3574
      @terryadcock3574 3 роки тому +1

      Didn't used to be. Years ago (before 1980 or so), they were just peppers, or green peppers, or sometimes 'sweet' peppers. I watched national cooking shows and had cookbooks from outside New Orleans back then, and I remember.

    • @angelwishes3213
      @angelwishes3213 8 місяців тому

      stuff travels quickly like cultural exchanges, i.e. a bunch of stuff probably originated from New Orleans and likewise for other cultures

  • @johnwolf4447
    @johnwolf4447 8 років тому +1

    If you ever go to New Orleans don't bring cash because the police will seize it