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Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:03 am to Slippy
Wow. That’s pretty sad. I have said this before( and I live here) but Louisiana is the trashiest state I’ve ever been in.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:04 am to Sput
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Never ever say the shite they call bbq in Louisiana is the best anywhere.
You’ve plainly never been there. I’ve sample BBQ in pretty much every state known for it. Grayson’s is among the very best.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:05 am to Slippy
Graysons, Used to stop there after away games against Natchitoches Central.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:29 am to Slippy
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Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:40 am to Sput
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Other than the BBQ sandwich from Grayson’s in Clarence, which is still the best anywhere,
Never ever say the shite they call bbq in Louisiana is the best anywhere.
A typical Auburn fan, he tasted some packaged BBQ he bought at a gas station in Louisiana somewhere and figured he knew all he needed to. Probably made in Alabama.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:47 am to Slippy
But Louisiana Culture and tasty food.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:21 am to tketaco
Another iconic stop on US 71 was/is Lea's Pies in LeCompte.
If I remember correctly, Mr. Grayson of Grayson's in Clarence and Mr. Lea (may be his first name) were brothers-in-law.
I remember seeing Lea on Johnny Carson bragging about his pies and how many he sold. Heard that a few days later the IRS paid him a visit and nailed him and he had to pay a lot back taxes.
If I remember correctly, Mr. Grayson of Grayson's in Clarence and Mr. Lea (may be his first name) were brothers-in-law.
I remember seeing Lea on Johnny Carson bragging about his pies and how many he sold. Heard that a few days later the IRS paid him a visit and nailed him and he had to pay a lot back taxes.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:44 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Greenville MS, Donaldsonville, Port Allen, all those old farm cities are just shells
Greenville was more of a port city than farm. That town has gotten so bad, the industrial park on the north side of tow. is creepy as frick. There’s a manufacturer of food processing equipment out there that makes stuff for the catfish plants, it’s pretty much all that’s left in business. There are probably a dozen shuttered factories around it overgrown with weeds
Greenville and Clarksdale have gotten bad. So has Yazoo City
Cleveland, Indianola, and Greenwood are still doing ok. Greenwood has Milwaukee tools, Viking appliances, and 2 catfish processors keeping it afloat. Cleveland has Delta State and Baxter pharmaceuticals and a few other manufacturing facilities. Indianola has Gresham Petroleum that owns all the Double Quicks and a lot of farm/catfish money. Also a big dollar general warehouse. Being the intersection of Hwy 82 and 49 helps
Belzoni though is in a sad sad state. It pains me knowing how much of a thriving town it was in the 90s and early 2000s. There’s nothing left there. When the catfish industry hit hard times in 2008 it was hit the hardest. Humphreys county at one time had 100,000 acres of catfish farms and 5 processing plants and produced 80% of the catfish in the nation. Today it has maybe 5,000 acres in production and two processors. It’s really sad
My little town of 900 people (Inverness) has managed to stay nice. 80% of the downtown buildings are occupied with businesses. 2 restaurants, insurance agency, Freemason lodge, 2 barbers, couple farm offices, 2 grocery stores, gas station and a laundromat. At least it’s not vacant and crumbling there was a concerted effort that started 20 years ago to try to prevent the town from befalling the fate of other delta towns by a few wealthy locals buying up vacant homes fixing them up and finding nice families to move into them without them being put on the market. This was done to keep demographics “favorable” for the town. We have a ton of young families and more members in the rotary club than Cleveland has. The people here really care a lot about this town
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:53 am to FreeState
Lea’s is still around! Haven’t been in a while though.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:14 pm to TankBoys32
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Lea’s is still around! Haven’t been in a while though
Yep, his grandson runs it now
Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:33 pm to soccerfüt
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The routing of the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s and NAFTA were the two biggest determinants of winners & losers of towns and cities in the US. Especially in the South & Midwest.
Don’t forget school consolidation and proximity to major metros…
I drove down 71 heading to Bossier for the baseball playoffs once and saw the sign for Hall Summit and thought about all the good class C basketball they must have had
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Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:37 pm to Slippy
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Other than the BBQ sandwich from Grayson’s in Clarence, which is still the best anywhere, I was saddened by the whole experience. It has been over 20 years since I drove that route, and the decay is remarkable. All the little towns that were hanging on 2 decades ago are now done. Montgomery, Clarence, Campti, Coushatta…. All depressing. Abandoned houses, churches with the roofs caved in, nothing left but a few very poor people living in trailers or shanties. No stores, no businesses, no life. Sad.
America traded Main Street for K Street a long time ago
Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:46 pm to deltaland
Greenville had the most millionaires in the country at one point in time I'm told.
That place is the poster child of ruined America. Crime is outrageous, extreme poverty, shuttered and overgrown buildings everywhere. You can tell it used to be spectacular.
That place is the poster child of ruined America. Crime is outrageous, extreme poverty, shuttered and overgrown buildings everywhere. You can tell it used to be spectacular.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:48 pm to Got Blaze
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I would visit the ROM plywood plant in LeMoyen before it shut down years ago.
I used to work there when I was younger. What in the world made you want to visit the plant?
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I believe it is still running. ROM shut it down but another company bought it and re-opened it. I think some outfit out of Texas purchased it.
I will say, when I worked there, the one really interesting thing to watch in action was the OSB press machine. It used heat and wax and would compress several trays of press-wood material that were several inches thick into a single 1/2 or 3/4 inch OSB sheet.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:24 pm to Odysseus32
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Things change. No sense in getting so bent up over it to the point that you ruin your life. Grieve and move on.
Oh don’t worry, I’m not grieving for any of these places. I do feel bad for my elderly parents, though. They grew up in northern Bienville Parish, and there is nothing there anymore. We’ll drive through Gibsland and they’ll point to an overgrown empty lot with trash everywhere and say that’s where so-and-so lived. It’s sad.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:33 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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it was a couple of trailers down that road
"That road" was in sort of a Z pattern going through a cornfield so that you couldn't see the trailers from the highway. Probably around 1978 I dropped a $20 bill in there for a few minutes of pleasure.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:40 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Greenville had the most millionaires in the country at one point in time I'm told.
At the peak of the catfish industry Humphreys county was one of the top 20 wealthiest counties per capita in the U.S. It is now bottom 10 poorest. Thank the govt for letting cheap shitty imports flood the market
We lived in Greenville when I was a toddler my dad ran a catfish operation for Farm Fresh owned by Hormel at the time. Early 90s. I remember my mom leaving me at the arcade in the mall while she shopped and the mall was so nice then. 80% white people. Had a Garfield’s and Piccadilly cafeteria all the storefronts were occupied.
Today it’s a mess. 70% is vacant, no restaurants, the stores all cater to an urban crowd. You best not dare step into that mall if you’re white. TJ Maxx is safe but that’s about it. I’m shocked the mall is even still open tbh
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Posted on 1/28/24 at 2:10 pm to deltaland
First time I ever seent cars painted like m&m’s and Reese’s peanut butter cup.
Doe’s still have a Benghazi sekuritay patrol in the parking lot?
Doe’s still have a Benghazi sekuritay patrol in the parking lot?
Posted on 1/28/24 at 2:43 pm to chalmetteowl
Atlanta HS closed down last year
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