[BITList] Name of Landry

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mike
port sulphur to rotterdam ! - how long did you take to load in port sulphur?
and yet another landry. walter must have gone because freeport closed port 
sulphur some years ago.
Port Sulphur was an out-an-out company town. Today, the same buildings are 
present; although in the 1990s Freeport shut down operations, as the price 
of sulfur dropped too low, mainly to the by-product of sulfur obtained in 
petroleum production. With the closing of Freeport (McMoran) Sulfur, the 
town has been seeking another economic identity.
The town is 8 feet (2.4 m) above sea level and had not flooded during 
Hurricanes Betsy and Camille. Nevertheless, in Hurricane Katrina, the 
federal levees failed and around 22 feet (6.7 m)[citation needed] of water 
engulfed the town. Almost all single family homes in the town were 
destroyed, many of which were moved off their foundation as many as 100 
feet. In the months following Katrina, some residents moved back to Port 
Sulphur in trailers and modular homes provided by FEMA. But many residents 
relocated to other parts of Louisiana, the Southeast, and Texas.
as far as eating at ziggies - I can't find any reference to the place 
anywhere in the GNO area and I don't know it.
the only ziggy I found was[ 
http://ziggysboutique.homestead.com/neworleans.html], a new orleans dog 
clothing boutique!
my former wife was from port sulphur, she knows the place but says it 
probably never reopened after katrina. in fact, there was little left to 
reopen. an acquaintance was living down there in a trailer - it was never 
found! this cute kitty was in the trailer - never seen again!
you probably know there was little or nothing left in port sulphur after 
katrina - being 5 to 6 m underwater in parts.

ct

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From: "Michael Feltham" <mail at mjfeltham.plus.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 12:32 PM
To: "Colin Taylor" <x50type at cox.net>
Subject: Name of Landry

> Colin,
>
> When I worked for Denholms of Glasgow, I spent a few years, in the early 
> Eighties, on Liquid Sulphur Tankers, running between either Port 
> Sulphur/Beaumont to Rotterdam.  The Port Engineer for Freeport Sulphur at 
> Port Sulphur was a Walter Landry.  I would think he is long gone.  He was 
> a fair man as long as you did your job.  Everytime in Port Sulphur we used 
> to go to Ziggies for a marvellous Steak after half a dozen Oysters 
> Rockerfeller.
>
> Those were the days !
>
> Mike
>
> PS  Ziggies had a branch Restaurant in New Orleans= 
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