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The old Capital Supermarket looks okay. Here's another Edgewood Park secret for you. Did…

Damaged two-story brick building with a "Capital Supermarket" sign, broken storefront windows, debris, and a Coca-Cola machine behind a chain-link fence.

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Metairie and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina - 10.23.05

The old Capital Supermarket looks okay. Here's another Edgewood Park secret for you. Did many of you know that to the left, in the next block is where Paul McCartney recorded his Venus and Mars album in the 1970s at the old Sea Saint Studio? McCartney used to eat yogurt and would send someone over to this store to get it for him.

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“The old Capital Supermarket looks okay. Here's another Edgewood Park secret for you. Did…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3540.