{"id":3666,"date":"2009-08-03T12:20:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T17:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:16:06","slug":"no-more-waiting-for-the-robert-e-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=3666","title":{"rendered":"No more waiting for the Robert E. Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Orleans landmark, dating back to 1965, is scheduled for demolition. I know, 1965 can hardly be called historical, but if you grew up in the lakefront area, the Robert E. Lee Theater was a major part of your life. Even more so for me, as I worked at the Robert E. Lee as a cashier in the late 70&#8217;s. The Robert E. Lee was a luxurious single screen theater located in a neighborhood strip mall. The theater closed in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>From nola.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/movies\/index.ssf\/2009\/08\/eighteen_years_after_its_last.html\">Eighteen years after its last picture show, the Robert E. Lee Theatre, a Lakeview landmark, gets ready for the wrecking ball.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/hsg\/blogart\/no\/theatre.jpg\" alt=\"robert e lee\" width=\"299\" height=\"202\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/hsg\/blogart\/no\/me.jpg\" alt=\"me\" width=\"204\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This shot of the theatre was taken after hurricane Katrina. Here I am in the 70&#8217;s working as cashier. Remember when someone actually answered the phone at movie theatres? That was me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Orleans landmark, dating back to 1965, is scheduled for demolition. I know, 1965 can hardly be called historical, but if you grew up in the lakefront&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,149],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-orleans","tag-robert-e-lee-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}