Thank God Starbucks don’t dominate here
I am back in New Orleans again only after 2 weeks. After sending some friends off to Houston and not really ready to turn in I visited a popular coffee spot in the city called CC’s which stands for Community Coffee. Community Coffee has a manufacturing plant here and imports its famous coffee that is probably well over 100 years old.
This joint is located on Esplanade St. in the By-Water area, a part of the city I really like. It was opened when I arrived and I had cappuccino and a biscotti (with pistachios). Read a paper checked my messages on the blackberry and enjoyed the place throughly.
I overhead an African American lady talking about show biz in LA, the ins and outs. Yes I was listening. She was so loud the entire place could hear her. I think she was interviewing someone for a camera position. She might be a producer, wasn’t sure. When I saw the DV camera neatly placed on the table, as if to tell everyone walking by ” look at me I am important.” I decided two could play that game so I went to the car and got my camera. Not to show off, but to go through the shots of the day to delete the ones that I didn’t like so I wouldn’t waste time doing it later.
I wanted so badly to take a photograph indoors, but I didn’t want to draw any attention to myself. This place has an interesting shape. It is like a shotgun house in an odd shape that seems to get smaller towards the back of the coffee shop.
This is a really hot spot for all sorts of people from the police the the previous mayor. It is usually crowded on the outside, but it had been extremely windy that day. I didn’t have a tripod, but decided to take a photograph from outside. A fisheye / wide angle lens would have been so great at that moment. I just couldn’t get angle I needed.
CC’s is located in a historical part of the city. Very close to the first American French Impressionist Degas’s house. You will find the same style of homes found Uptown. You won’t find Starbucks on this block or the next one.
