A flood protection project under way in New Orleans will come at the expense of Bucktown, a neighborhood that was home to both the well-known Sid-Mar restaurant and to commercial fishermen. The Army Corps of Engineers plans to build floodgates where Bucktown once stood. The Sid-Mar and other landmarks of the neighborhood were washed away by the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina.
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![Roland Mollere stands at the bar of R&O's, a restaurant he owns in Bucktown.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/663a1e0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/420x300+0+0/resize/880x629!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fprograms%2Fatc%2Ffeatures%2F2006%2Ffeb%2Fbucktown%2Froland420-9dde2944876f668ce5a3e8fdb5692eb134ca97fe.jpg)
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![The 17th St. Canal, with its footbridge, was a Bucktown landmark. Fisherman tied their boats to the wooden pilings in the foreground.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7a7e296/2147483647/strip/true/crop/420x350+0+0/resize/880x733!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fprograms%2Fatc%2Ffeatures%2F2006%2Ffeb%2Fbucktown%2Fcanal420-748438aea1fd42111951342360aa95f878cc0839.jpg)
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![Frank Wooley. "All I want," he says, "Is a place to put my boat."](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/02d4a5b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/420x335+0+0/resize/880x702!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fprograms%2Fatc%2Ffeatures%2F2006%2Ffeb%2Fbucktown%2Ffrank420-277e5324a6fdb161c61a2a87b9427d07739ed5ac.jpg)
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