New Orleans Phone Books

Added on July 3rd, 2007 by M-3 | Report Post
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The New Orleans Phone Books Before & After Katrina

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Ctrl-Alt-Elite (#294)

16 years ago

+1 LoL to you!

Sticky (#463)

16 years ago

They’re all still there! It’s just smaller print! Honest!

deleted_user (#667)

16 years ago

HA this is great :p And not as offensive as 9-11 jokes!

noodles (#750)

16 years ago

Those are 2 different phone books, one is the white pages (alphabetical list of residential phone numbers), and the other is the yellow pages (advertisements and phone numbers for businesses listed by categories). I know it’s 2007, and nobody uses a phone book anymore, but c’mon…

deleted_user (#667)

16 years ago

noodles, “The New Orleans Phone Books Before & After Katrina”

key words “before and after”

Spac Demon (#223)

16 years ago

Do you really think that the people in New Orleans still have phones?

deleted_user (#667)

16 years ago

That’s why the book is so much smaller now, Spac Demon 😉

Spac Demon (#223)

16 years ago

“hmm lemme just look up Jaspers address here in the good ole phone book… ah yes here it is… 12421 UNDER THE FUCKING WATER road.”

deleted_user (#667)

16 years ago

Only a small portion of New Orleans was affected by the flood, Spac Demon.

Spac Demon (#223)

16 years ago

yes I know… that was me being an ignorant american again.

*continues watching Nascar*

deleted_user (#667)

16 years ago

Your the type of person that other countries look at and think we are stupid. You fail. /wrists.

Spac Demon (#223)

16 years ago

Yup that’s me… worshiping Paris Hilton while listening to my iPod and eating Mcdonalds.

/dignity

Ctrl-Alt-Elite (#294)

16 years ago

lol, thats not the yellow pages, its the white pages that have mildewed after being throughly soaked.

beep beep (#280)

16 years ago

Casemods need to learn the difference between “your” and “you’re” before he can go on bashing other people’s stupidity.

noodles (#750)

16 years ago

I know it says “before and after”, my point is that the yellow pages are always bigger than the white pages. Also, white pages in every city are shrinking due to people giving up their listed land-lines for cell phones.

Point is…those phonebooks illustrate absolutely nothing about Katrina.

deleted_user (#667)

16 years ago

noodles: if it is in fact fake, it’s still shows a point…

Anonymous (#78)

16 years ago

I don’t think those are the yellow pages; I have a white pages that is a year old and is experiencing some yellowing. This book probably was exposed to water and urine and other shit.

Yellow pages are a deeper yellow than that.

bob (#369)

16 years ago

Maybe its because they bussed them all to different cities and they’re not leaving.. Hint hint.

deleted_user (#667)

16 years ago

True, natakumus, plus, you can see the white in the side of the book.

M-3 (#297)

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16 years ago

Bear in mind that the post says “Phone Book” not “White Pages”. There were 1086 pages of residential listings (= above the blue line) in the 2004 directory vs. 765 pages in the new one. Page thickness seems the same as far as I can tell. What’s also interesting is that the 2007 directory has a Lasik surgery banner ad (?!) on the top of every page, reducing the number of listings per page to 250 or so; there’s an everage of about 300 listings per page in the 2004 directory.