Some hat-wearin' fools.

[RedPop4]

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
Had a bunch of my cigar friends here in town this past weekend. It's an annual event we have, with guys from another board on which I post and moderate.

One of our friends owned a "camp" out on Lake Pontchartrain, within the city limits of New Orleans. Well, Hurricane Katrina took care of The Camp, so now all we have are our memories and photographs of the good times, good food, good cigars and fishing.

We went out there on Saturday afternoon to lift a glass, and toast a cigar to what was a wonderful time in all of our lives, and those of our families.

Spiridon, of this board and our other board (Cigar Weekly) is kneeling in the front, I'm standing in the back. The Little Hairy One had on a huge brim straw hat as well, just had it on his back for this photo.

This one is from the four New Orleanians. The guy in the CAO hat, is now settled in St. Mary's Georgia, but he travels back once a month to run his business, but wishes to return one day. The guy in the straw lives north of the lake in Slidell.

If you wish to see ALL the photos, you can visit over at Cigar Weekly, only one other photo has hat content, and it's just me in the same New York fedora and my LSU shirt.

http://galleries.cigarweekly.com/flipflop/Farewell-to-Camp-Herf

Edit. You can see the pilings and one or two pieces of framing. That's all that's left. The Camp floor and runs were twelve (12) feet above the Lake. The top of the house was about another 15 or so feet. That means that the ENTIRE BUILDING was TOPPED by the 28 foot storm surge.

 

[Brad Bowers]

What a jovial-looking bunch! When are the rest of them going to get some hats?

Tell me about the rail line in the background. It looks like really light rail and small ties, though the roadbed is beautifully groomed. Is it a miniature railroad?

Brad

 

[Marc Chevalier]

A narrow-gauge railway?

 

[RedPop4]

No.
I think it's just the angle of the photograph. I've hauled enough over and back, trust me. They come through there, at times at 50 mph
It's a CSX double track. It's the main line out of New Orleans to all points northeast.

Some of them probably will not gravitate. The hatless gentleman in the LSU t-shirt is my good friend. He lost his home in Lakeview, and now lives in a rental two doors down from me. He gives me quite a bit of stick about my hats.

The young gentleman, is the teenaged son of the Little Hairy One. He'll grow up one day