re: Really cool facebook page with lots of historic Louisiana Photos

"My PawPaw had some pictures of him and his brother with a pirogue full of ducks..... Probably 2-300. He lost them to a flood in Hurricane Juan."

My Mom had a ton of pics from long ago. One I remember was taken of two of her brothers with a ton of mallards in the back of a truck. Can't remember how many. I was in the picture with them. I was about 4 years old.
They hunted behind our house on Lake Pearl in Avoyelles Parish. I went a few times as a kid when they would cut a "ring out of the cypress trees and build a blind.
As your Pawpaw did., Mom lost a ton of historical stuff in Katrina down in St. Bernard Parish.

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Bob Scearce, the old beachcomber....Photo taken at Old River....
In 1949 a young columnist named Robert “Bob” Scearce temporarily lost his fulltime job at the Morning Advocate and started working part time at Steinberg’s. Bob Scearce was an impassioned outdoorsman in fishing and hunting and after seeing how prominently the surplus items connected to hunting and fishing, he convinced Joseph Lipsey into adding fishing gear and outdoors supplies which included rods and reels, hunting guns, and sporting goods items to the store. And that‘s how the sporting goods store began. Thus Bob Scearce played a major role in Steinberg’s entry into the sporting goods business.The name Steinberg’s Hide and Fur Company remained and about 1953 Bob Scearce was hired by the fledgling WAFB TV as the first sports announcer. Subsequent to that Steinberg’s sponsored a television program The Great Outdoors hosted by Bob Scearce that aired every Friday on WAFB TV. With the introduction of Beachcomber Bob Scearce’s program, Joseph Lipsey, Sr. changed the name of the outdoor section of the store to Steinberg’s Sports Center. From that point on, the sports center operated in one part of the building while the hide and fur department continued in another part.

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