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re: What was Baton Rouge like in the 1970s?
Posted on 3/20/23 at 7:46 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 3/20/23 at 7:46 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I can sum things up quickly: 70805 was safe for kids to play outside until dark when they were called inside by either their mom or dad- who both lived with them in the same home.
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Posted on 3/20/23 at 7:59 am to Vikki
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I was one if the dancers at that GoGo bar. Fond memories of those days!
What was it called? I don't seem to remember this place.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 8:09 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Much better place
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:00 am to SalE
Siegen Lane was a gravel road. I used to ride my bike down Sherwood Forest Blvd. onto Siegen and go to my girlfriend's house near St. George. On the way, I would pick up aluminum cans for recycling (10 cents a pound!). The old Kleinpeter store was at the corner of Siegen and Perkins. We would go there and get a cold drink out of the old-time cooler.
Before the interstate came through there, it was all woods behind the girlfriend's house. We walked for a mile to have picnics in the woods. Good times.
Then they started building the interstate. A friend took her onto the paved but unopened I-10 and taught her how to drive a stick shift vehicle. That's another lost art.
Essentially, BR was safe, except for a few areas around the Bottoms and Scotlandville. We could go just about anywhere and not worry that we would get shot.
Before the interstate came through there, it was all woods behind the girlfriend's house. We walked for a mile to have picnics in the woods. Good times.
Then they started building the interstate. A friend took her onto the paved but unopened I-10 and taught her how to drive a stick shift vehicle. That's another lost art.
Essentially, BR was safe, except for a few areas around the Bottoms and Scotlandville. We could go just about anywhere and not worry that we would get shot.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:02 am to liquid rabbit
What year was the interstate built from College Dr to like Highland Rd?
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:06 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
For some odd reason I went down the YouTube rabbit hole watching old tv commercials for the bon marche mall.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:08 am to LaBR4
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What year was the interstate built from College Dr to like Highland Rd?
I think it was around 1974.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:09 am to sec13rowBBseat28
Our family had acreage on the other side of the river. 6 members of my mom's family lived on it. Parents built a new house early 70s also. Cousins and I all grew up there. Grandparents built a total of 3 houses on the land over the years. Not 1 family member still lives or owns any of it. RIP BR as we knew it in the 70s-90s.
Monticello Christmas lights were the GOAT.
Monticello Christmas lights were the GOAT.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:11 am to madamsquirrel
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The Messengers' Christmas lights were the GOAT.
FIFY
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:11 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Nobody locally wanted bussing, it was all NAACP and the Federal Government that forced it on BR. Yes, I am sill salty
You and me both brother. This is a bitterness and anger that I simply can not let go of, and is the perfect metaphor of why to this day I am incapable of having a rational discussion about race.
And did the integration really improve education for blacks?
Today EBR public schools are mostly black and if you look at their prior LEAP scores you may be disappointed. So then a coverup has started with relabeling schools as 'STEM' schools, 'magnet' schools, and charter schools. It is similar to putting a pretty hat on a mule.
Judge parker and the Naacp enacted a crime on this city.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:20 am to SantaFe
I attended central when half of central went to scotlandville and half of scotlandville went to central. All parents were pissed. No one wanted to go across town if their kid missed the bus, needed to check out, or to pickup from after school sports. It sucked all the way around for everyone.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:24 am to eScott
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this was a baller house in the 70s
Wasn’t that Billy Cannon’s house?
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:27 am to liquid rabbit
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I think it was around 1974.
Would have liked to seen it way back when.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:29 am to theantiquetiger
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but there was a major concert in the late 70’s, where the fans destroyed the place, millions of dollars in damage. It killed the music scene in BR.
The was a thread on the music board a while back about Ozzy playing a show in BR and it got so rowdy that the city banned him from ever playing in the city again. But I think it was the early 80s though
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:31 am to liquid rabbit
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I think it was around 1974.
We have a winner. May 31st 1974.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:32 am to madamsquirrel
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needed to check out, or to pickup from after school sports.
My senior year at Woodlawn two track teammates would need a ride home all the way to Farfields Ave off North Acadian.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:35 am to theantiquetiger
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and basically killed the growing music scene in BR.
Going to college in the early 2000s, Spanish Moon, Chelseas, and The Varsity had a ton of up and coming artists going in and out of shows for a solid 10 years there.
I have no idea why it died out, but it did. But I saw a LOT of indie bands that are huge now.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:40 am to madamsquirrel
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I attended central when half of central went to scotlandville and half of scotlandville went to central. All parents were pissed. No one wanted to go across town if their kid missed the bus, needed to check out, or to pickup from after school sports. It sucked all the way around for everyone.
I was at Baker High when the deseg happened. We got some Central and Scotlandville kids. Lost some to Zachary. We went from a white majority school to a black majority from one year to the next. It wasn't a big deal though. We all got along. Now Baker ISD is last in the state. Everyone I know is long gone from the area now.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:48 am to NBR_Exile
quote:100%. That was not the issue. It was the long arse bus rides and hardships due to parents having to travel so far.
We all got along.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:51 am to liquid rabbit
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Siegen Lane was a gravel road. I used to ride my bike down Sherwood Forest Blvd. onto Siegen and go to my girlfriend's house near St. George. On the way, I would pick up aluminum cans for recycling (10 cents a pound!). The old Kleinpeter store was at the corner of Siegen and Perkins. We would go there and get a cold drink out of the old-time cooler.
I have a picture of 3 yr old me standing in front of that old Store(it had already been closed a few years). I will post it if I can dig the MFer up.
This post was edited on 3/20/23 at 9:52 am
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