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wickowick 
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| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:32 am to southernelite)
Ferriday is king of this list...
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Pectus 
New Orleans Saints Fan
Internet
Member since Apr 2010
38756 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:33 am to CocomoLSU)
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Natchitoches, LA has that same kinda feel to it.
So does Natchez, MS in a lot of parts.
Yeah, but they choose to keep parts of it historical.
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JDM1992
In your head
Member since Dec 2011
15141 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:33 am to southernelite)
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JDM1992
In your head
Member since Dec 2011
15141 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:35 am to JDM1992)
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Kafka
New Orleans Saints Fan
too wrong; didn't lead
Member since Jul 2007
59859 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:36 am to JDM1992)
Once more, that downtown would have been filled with people in the 1950s
People are saying "stuck in the past" to describe towns that are depressed -- that is, stuck in the present
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Hugo Stiglitz 
USA Fan
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Member since Oct 2010
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| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:37 am to southernelite)
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If there is ever a place that feels as though time has stood still, DeRidder, LA is that place. Feels like 1970 still.
Damn straight.
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JDM1992
In your head
Member since Dec 2011
15141 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:37 am to Kafka)
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Kafka
New Orleans Saints Fan
too wrong; didn't lead
Member since Jul 2007
59859 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:41 am to JDM1992)
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That's just the picture, the locals are out and about on a normal day.
So what's the problem? It doesn't have wonderful Big Box architecture?
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teke184
LSU Fan
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
5880 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:43 am to wickowick)
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Ferriday is king of this list...
No joke.
It looks like they hadn't built anything there since Jerry Lee Lewis first hit the charts.
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musick
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the internet
Member since Dec 2008
7425 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:46 am to teke184)
New Iberia and all the towns between it and Breaux Bridge (St Martinsville, etc)
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CoCo311
LSU Fan
Member since Jun 2012
6287 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:46 am to teke184)
Alexandria and Bogalusa, La.
Meridian, Ms.
Pasadena, Tx. (seriously, fix the fricking roads!!!!!!)
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deltaland 
Mississippi St. Fan
Member since Mar 2011
16040 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:48 am to southernelite)
I grew up in one. Greenwood, MS. Also in Indianola.
Huge downtown areas from the early 1900's. Huge old Antebellum mansions still there where all the rich farmers, lawyers, etc live in.
Still basically segregated...all the white kids go to private schools, black kids to public. Walk in a more upscale restaurant and white people will mostly sit on one side, blacks on the other. The farmers are extremely wealthy landowners owning thousands of acres that have been in the family since the 1800s. I know of some whose workers are the descendants of sharecroppers or even slaves that worked on the same farm.
They always say the delta is the most Southern place on earth existing today and it's like a time warp.
The above are shacks that you can rent to stay the night. Located on an old cotton plantation
This post was edited on 12/3 at 12:04 pm
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Hacker
LSU Fan
Eunice
Member since Jan 2009
2459 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:52 am to southernelite)
Go to Washington, LA, it will make Derrider look like Hong Kong
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Count Chocula
Yale Fan
Member since Feb 2009
40295 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:55 am to burgeman)
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Bogalusa is the correct answer here
Correct, and it stinks there to boot.
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BROffshoreTigersWife
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Member since May 2010
2019 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:55 am to southernelite)
Valliant, OK
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jmarto1
LSU Fan
Houma, LA
Member since Mar 2008
10334 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:56 am to southernelite)
Call Houma the land that time forgot. People act like they are exempt from certain ways of acting in public.
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windriver
San Diego State Fan
West Monroe/San Diego
Member since Mar 2006
8656 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 11:57 am to southernelite)
Wetumpka, AL
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FelicianaTigerfan
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2009
10213 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 12:03 pm to LSUcdro)
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St.Francisville
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Hammertime
LSU Fan
Hiding in your back seat
Member since Jan 2012
8875 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 12:03 pm to LSUTygerFan)
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Bogalusa
Lived up there for ~3 months, and used to drive through town pretty regularly with classmates. We drove through the center part of town by the McDonalds one day, and there was a biker guy standing in the middle of the intersection with crotchless, assless chaps and a leather vest swinging around a chain. We sat there through 3 red lights watching him
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ArRazElle 
Alabama Fan
Member since Sep 2012
3862 posts
| re: Ever go to a town that feels like youre stepping into a time machine? (Posted on 12/3/12 at 12:05 pm to southernelite)
I love those kinds of towns. Brings back good memories.
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