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The Good Old Days in Baton Rouge
Posted on 4/27/24 at 4:19 pm
Posted on 4/27/24 at 4:19 pm
My first grand baby is a boy and is now 8 and asked me what it was like when I was 12 or so, his words not mine.
My answer to him in bullet point lists sort of,
We rode our bikes anywhere we wanted
Stayed outside till mom called us in for supper
Went to something we called Fun Fair Park
Roller skating at Leo’s roller rink
Ate big hamburgers and drank thick shakes at Hoppers
Played Putt Putt Golf
Bon Marche Western Auto
Montgomery Wards
New Schwinn StingRay Bike
Real Great Smelling Christmas Trees
GI Joe and all his accessories
Wall mounted phone with a very long coiled up cord
Muffuletta’s Tamales
Kick the Can at night
Cards with clothes pins in spokes of our bikes
Playing in wards creek canal with my friends
Hot outside mom says play outside with the sprinkler or water wiggle
on and on and,
Ahhhh, the good old days…..
What say you?
My answer to him in bullet point lists sort of,
We rode our bikes anywhere we wanted
Stayed outside till mom called us in for supper
Went to something we called Fun Fair Park
Roller skating at Leo’s roller rink
Ate big hamburgers and drank thick shakes at Hoppers
Played Putt Putt Golf
Bon Marche Western Auto
Montgomery Wards
New Schwinn StingRay Bike
Real Great Smelling Christmas Trees
GI Joe and all his accessories
Wall mounted phone with a very long coiled up cord
Muffuletta’s Tamales
Kick the Can at night
Cards with clothes pins in spokes of our bikes
Playing in wards creek canal with my friends
Hot outside mom says play outside with the sprinkler or water wiggle
on and on and,
Ahhhh, the good old days…..
What say you?
This post was edited on 4/27/24 at 4:21 pm
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 4:55 pm to Oneulus
Very few tv channels, no internet, no social media, no cell phone. It was much easier then to be a kid.
Posted on 4/27/24 at 5:11 pm to Oneulus
I grew up in a neighborhood off Highland that backed up to Bayou Fountain. We were always frickin around in the mud and woods. BR was a good place to grow up and then Katrina happened.
Posted on 4/27/24 at 5:18 pm to Oneulus
Rode the bike about 2 miles to swim in the Ouachita River, went anywhere we wanted (if Mom had only known), neighborhood baseball game every day, ran in the fog after the skeeter fogger went by, BB guns, collecting coke bottles for enough to buy a coke, spending a week at Grandparents on 320 acres in the middle of nowhere, fishing every day, and the list goes on for a 10yo in the early 70's
Posted on 4/27/24 at 7:28 pm to Oneulus
quote:that’s been a good minute ago. They had really good muffulettas.
Muffuletta’s Tamales
Posted on 4/27/24 at 9:36 pm to Oneulus
"camping out" with the gang... 
Posted on 4/27/24 at 9:48 pm to Oneulus
Steinberg’s downtown with the big bear when you walked in. I got Roland Martin’s autograph there.
Wasn’t there an ice skating rink…maybe on Airline?
Wasn’t there an ice skating rink…maybe on Airline?
Posted on 4/28/24 at 8:09 am to Oneulus
Pickup baseball, football and basketball games.
Tackle football in the lot next door.
Sit on the front porch swing and just swing.
Grab fishing pole, ride bike to the Miss River levee, set a line.
Roller skate on the side walks in the subdivision.
Grab an ice cream cone from the drug store on mains street and look at and read their magazines until someone ran us off.
Climb the sycamore trees in the yard.
Build dirt forts and layouts for our army men.
Target said army men with our BB guns.
Play cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians.
Cut up some wood scraps and try to make something…..anything.
Each of us siblings helped mom cook something when weather was crappy outside so we all learned how to be really good cooks. So happy for that.
Tackle football in the lot next door.
Sit on the front porch swing and just swing.
Grab fishing pole, ride bike to the Miss River levee, set a line.
Roller skate on the side walks in the subdivision.
Grab an ice cream cone from the drug store on mains street and look at and read their magazines until someone ran us off.
Climb the sycamore trees in the yard.
Build dirt forts and layouts for our army men.
Target said army men with our BB guns.
Play cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians.
Cut up some wood scraps and try to make something…..anything.
Each of us siblings helped mom cook something when weather was crappy outside so we all learned how to be really good cooks. So happy for that.
Posted on 4/28/24 at 10:18 am to Oneulus
Grew up in the mid 60's in LC. Had family that were rice farmers in Holmwood and Bel City. Some of my fondest memories were being the "retriever" for my dad and uncles during duck and goose hunting. Running through the cut fields while the men ran the combines. Hanging out by the dryers and shooting doves. Kicking up quail and woodcock along old hedgerows and fence lines. My only grandson just turned 3 and will never get to experience the sheer fun I had as a kid.
Posted on 4/28/24 at 3:53 pm to Oneulus
Grew up in N. BTR, weekends were full. Camping out, sneaking in Tiger Drive Inn, swimming at the KC hall on the Airline, hunting and fishing, building car engines, racing motorcycles. Best times when my friends parents would drop us off at their camp in S. La. We could hunt and fish. Best part, they had food and beer at the camp!
Posted on 4/28/24 at 5:59 pm to Oneulus
We must be from the same era, those are all part of my childhood. To think, I used to ride my bike down Highland Road regularly to reach other subdivisions that were separated by woods. Those are all bulldozed down and covered in concrete now, and some days, I’m terrified driving an SUV down Highland. I went to Lee when our mascot was a Rebel and Dixie was our fight song.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:26 am to Oneulus
I used to tell momma I’m thuggin outside and we don’t need no cable
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:01 pm to Oneulus
Treehouses....we buit many, many treehouses in the woods. Funny how the woods have completely vanished over the years.
We wore heavy jackets in the winter time and played war games with our Daisy BB guns. Of course, head shots were not allowed!
Swimming in large ditches after or during a heavy rainfalls. Built gokarts that you steered with your feet while the smaller kids pushed you from behind.
Collected soft drink bottles for cash from Winn Dixie. I remember getting a whopping 3 cents per bottle. Cans weren't being used much back then.
Roy Rogers early Saturday morning, then double feature westerns with Audie Murphy, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, etc.
We wore heavy jackets in the winter time and played war games with our Daisy BB guns. Of course, head shots were not allowed!
Swimming in large ditches after or during a heavy rainfalls. Built gokarts that you steered with your feet while the smaller kids pushed you from behind.
Collected soft drink bottles for cash from Winn Dixie. I remember getting a whopping 3 cents per bottle. Cans weren't being used much back then.
Roy Rogers early Saturday morning, then double feature westerns with Audie Murphy, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, etc.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:33 pm to Oneulus
Grandmother lived around Jefferson Terrace... Some of the best days of my life were spent riding bikes from sun rise to sunset. Fishing BCBS lake, Ramers and french quarter.
Went by not long ago, as both grandparents have passed. Huge homes going up, hardly recognize it now.
Went by not long ago, as both grandparents have passed. Huge homes going up, hardly recognize it now.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 9:24 pm to Oneulus
Judge Parker’s ruling…. The end
Posted on 4/30/24 at 11:29 am to Oneulus
That list is pretty accurate for someone over 50, like me.
One thing I do remember that doesn't happen at all these days is if you were at your friends and we got in trouble for something we were doing, you got the same whippin as they did by their mom or dad... and vice versa when they were at your house..
Could you imagine the shitstorm it would cause if someone else whipped your kid these days?
One thing I do remember that doesn't happen at all these days is if you were at your friends and we got in trouble for something we were doing, you got the same whippin as they did by their mom or dad... and vice versa when they were at your house..
Could you imagine the shitstorm it would cause if someone else whipped your kid these days?
This post was edited on 4/30/24 at 11:31 am
Posted on 4/30/24 at 1:05 pm to Oneulus
Anyone remember when you could use RC Cola caps to get in the movie theater?
Remember when Fun Fair Park had an Ice Skating Rink?
Paying to swim at the Shades Motel?
The Killowatt Klub on Strumburg Lane?
Baton Rouge International Speedway, in Prairieville?
Remember when Fun Fair Park had an Ice Skating Rink?
Paying to swim at the Shades Motel?
The Killowatt Klub on Strumburg Lane?
Baton Rouge International Speedway, in Prairieville?
Posted on 4/30/24 at 4:16 pm to Oneulus
This thread makes me feel sorry for the kids growing up today. So many memories.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 5:01 pm to Oneulus
We used to make forts in the woods. When one of our dads got a gas weedeater, you would have thought they gave us a skid loader with a mulching head- the trail network got MASSIVE!
Posted on 5/2/24 at 2:52 pm to Oneulus
Not BR area, but Mom and Dad built a house and moved us out in the country when I was 10 and my brother was 8. Didn't go out to eat much so when we did it was a special treat. Went to the Mall in Alex to watch movies. Got in trouble with Mom for "wasting" $5 in the video arcade.
Helped Dad in the garden and work cattle during the summer. Got Honda 80s so we could ride the dirt roads and go squirrel or deer hunting after school. Dad would honk his truck horn when it was time for us to ride home. Travel baseball didn't exist, so we just played Dixie Baseball in the summer against teams in our Parish and then onto the All-Star tournaments in Alex or Pineville.
Showed steers, breeding cattle and hogs for 4-H so we had to tend to them throughout the year. Spent a week at 4-H Camp each summer. Was able to wander freely at the State Fair & Livestock show in Shreveport each fall and the LSU Livestock Show & Rodeo each Spring. Wandered throughout Parker Coliseum during the livestock shows and went to each night of the rodeo. We'd always end up getting pizza from Past Time and might go to Mike Anderson's if we could get a reservation.
Would spend a week in the Summer with my grandparents (around Pitkin or in Kinder). We were either picking Sugartown watermelons with my dad's parents or swimming in the irrigation ditches with the neighborhood kids in Kinder. My grandmother hated when we did that.
Helped Dad in the garden and work cattle during the summer. Got Honda 80s so we could ride the dirt roads and go squirrel or deer hunting after school. Dad would honk his truck horn when it was time for us to ride home. Travel baseball didn't exist, so we just played Dixie Baseball in the summer against teams in our Parish and then onto the All-Star tournaments in Alex or Pineville.
Showed steers, breeding cattle and hogs for 4-H so we had to tend to them throughout the year. Spent a week at 4-H Camp each summer. Was able to wander freely at the State Fair & Livestock show in Shreveport each fall and the LSU Livestock Show & Rodeo each Spring. Wandered throughout Parker Coliseum during the livestock shows and went to each night of the rodeo. We'd always end up getting pizza from Past Time and might go to Mike Anderson's if we could get a reservation.
Would spend a week in the Summer with my grandparents (around Pitkin or in Kinder). We were either picking Sugartown watermelons with my dad's parents or swimming in the irrigation ditches with the neighborhood kids in Kinder. My grandmother hated when we did that.
This post was edited on 5/2/24 at 3:27 pm
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