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re: Did Huey P Long block Alexandria from being a major metro?
Posted on 2/4/23 at 5:01 pm to MAXtheTIGER
Posted on 2/4/23 at 5:01 pm to MAXtheTIGER
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This is correct. It’s why 165 runs through Alexandria, but then goes north and crosses the Red river at Fort Buhlow. Pineville’s mayor made Huey mad, and so 165 bypassed Pineville. Even the 167 crossing is south of downtown Pineville.
This is the story my dad told me. The O. K. Allen bridge was built to bypass Pineville.
My dad also said there was a limerick about O. K. Allen who was governor at the time:
Huey had a puppy
And OK was name.
Whatever Huey said,
O. K. Did the same.
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Posted on 2/4/23 at 5:20 pm to Hoodatt
Legend has it that Melville was a town that Huey really hated and vowed to have it destroyed as a municipality. Melville today, no gas station, no school, not much of anything useful to the people. Last grocery store closed down about a year ago or so.
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