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re: The Good Old Days in Baton Rouge
Posted on 4/28/24 at 9:21 pm to Icansee4miles
Posted on 4/28/24 at 9:21 pm to Icansee4miles
Riding go cart up and down our street in mag woods
Riding my bike to school and then to Perkins park Eagles football practice, BREC league had teams that wore colors of the high school in their neighborhood
Got your pads on Tom drive Athletes corner
Appliances came from a trip to sears warehouse
Hunting/fishing stuff from Fred Parnells
Going to camp Avondale with Boy Scout troop camping
Fun Fair park Birthday parties
Original Star Wars at Broadmoor Theatre
Piccadilly at Westmoreland on a special occasion
Bottle Rocket wars
Ralph and Kacoos
Mid south wrestling at centroplex
Collecting green stamps and going shopping
Young Fashions for back to school clothes
Pediatric clinic on Tare
Riding my bike to school and then to Perkins park Eagles football practice, BREC league had teams that wore colors of the high school in their neighborhood
Got your pads on Tom drive Athletes corner
Appliances came from a trip to sears warehouse
Hunting/fishing stuff from Fred Parnells
Going to camp Avondale with Boy Scout troop camping
Fun Fair park Birthday parties
Original Star Wars at Broadmoor Theatre
Piccadilly at Westmoreland on a special occasion
Bottle Rocket wars
Ralph and Kacoos
Mid south wrestling at centroplex
Collecting green stamps and going shopping
Young Fashions for back to school clothes
Pediatric clinic on Tare
This post was edited on 4/28/24 at 9:41 pm
Posted on 4/28/24 at 10:44 pm to lctiger
in the 60's time was told........kids were home when the street lights came on
coke bottle deposits were 1 cent, a full bottle 5
a spanking at school, followed up by spanking at home
book mobile was summer fun
baseballs covered in black tape
bicycles were repaired by 6th graders
power steering and seat belts not required
coke bottle deposits were 1 cent, a full bottle 5
a spanking at school, followed up by spanking at home
book mobile was summer fun
baseballs covered in black tape
bicycles were repaired by 6th graders
power steering and seat belts not required
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:17 pm to lctiger
quote:holy shite LOL
Appliances came from a trip to sears warehouse Hunting/fishing stuff from Fred Parnells Going to camp Avondale with Boy Scout troop camping Fun Fair park Birthday parties Original Star Wars at Broadmoor Theatre Piccadilly at Westmoreland on a special occasion Bottle Rocket wars Ralph and Kacoos Mid south wrestling at centroplex Collecting green stamps and going shopping Young Fashions for back to school clothes Pediatric clinic on Tare
we had the same childhood
Posted on 4/30/24 at 5:02 pm to lctiger
This thread has brought back similar memories for me, but not of Baton Rouge, but Metairie and Biloxi. Very similar.
Growing up in the suburbs of Metairie in the 1970s wasn’t bad at all. Bikes brought us everywhere-- the lakefront’s linear park was always cool to ride to and there always seemed to be something new to find along there: lagoons, new parks, a rope swing on a tree. In 1970’s Metairie there was still a lot of undeveloped land and empty overgrown lots to ‘explore’ and make tree forts in, where we hid the Playboy and Penthouse magazines we sometimes found. Schools were okay -- elementary schools actually taught us things, and although middle school/junior high covers a generally traumatic time of life-- the start of cliques and being ‘cool’, physical maturity, discovering the opposite sex, etc.-- all in all, it was an okay time.
And then when school was over, then it was a GREAT time. As soon as school was over I'd turn all my Toughskins blue jeans into cut-offs and go spend probably two months in Biloxi shuttling between my two grandparents’ homes. One set lived down near The Point about a couple of blocks from the beach, the other set lived near Keesler about three blocks from Back Bay, so I was almost always on the water: fishing, sailing in a little sunfish sailboat, swimming off a pier, flying kites. Had a lot of cousins to hang with as well as two teenage uncles on my dad's side. I rarely wore shoes and often was shirtless. I got tanned as hell and my feet were well-callused and almost black on the bottom most of the time. About the only time I got dressed or cleaned up (which only meant throwing on a t-shirt and those old tire-tread sandals) was if we went out to eat at Baricev's or Rosetti's, or went to the mall, or more likely when we went and saw all those 70s summer movies (often with my cousins at the Surfside)-- Star Wars, The Deep, Grease, Orca, The Spy who Loved Me, Moonraker, etc.
Maybe it’s just me getting older, but it does seem that things were much simpler then. Race relations in particular weren’t so bad -- at least up until the end of disco, there seemed to be no schism between black and white radio or songs -- you could jam on both Stevie Wonder and Steve Miller. Compare that to the almost completely segregated radio scene today. Back then, both black and white kids seemed to realize that we were moving towards a better time, and for the most part, we were ‘coming together’ -- we had all been going to school together since the earliest grades, even if we didn’t live in the same neighborhoods. Nowadays, that doesn’t seem to be the case-- there seems to be nothing at all but separation and divisiveness.
Good '70s remembrances as a kid (in no particular order):
- Riding bikes to Smith’s Records and Tapes in Lakeside Mall, looking at the ganja-smoking Bob Marley albums and cool zodiac posters.
- Putting together model kits of ships, planes, tanks, super-heroes, monsters, cars, spacecraft, and Shogun Warriors, then hanging some of them from my ceiling.
- Riding w/ my dad & sister down from Hattiesburg to Biloxi, pulling over off the highway to swim at Red Creek and then stopping at Lott’s Country Store to get a snack and soda.
- 25¢ comic books: in Metairie at K&B, and in Biloxi 4 blocks down from my grandparents at the Li’l General.
- Football games in Miss Nancy’s empty yard next door w/ other neighborhood kids.
- Fireworks with my cousins at our grandparents' in Biloxi on the 4th and New Year’s Eve -- and plans for all kinds of firework contraptions: exploding blimps, planes, homemade rockets.
- Watching reruns of Gilligan’s Island, Jonny Quest, Speed Racer, Batman, and The Brady Bunch nearly every day after school.
- Weekend crawfish boils at my family's house on the covered back porch, w/ tons of guests coming over, and all the kids running wild and playing ‘blubber monster’ outside in all the front yards.
- Over-abundant Christmases, with bikes, action figures, games, model kits, gas-powered planes, toy railroads, and more.
- Playing frisbee and throwing the football on the one-block street around the corner (less car traffic).
- Junior high dances in the gym, with faux-silk shirts, neck chains, & slacks being the dress of choice; slow-dancing and dancing "The Bump" with various girls.
- Dropping a dollar at The Fun Arcade nearly every day after school in junior high.
- Countless Friday nights at Pelican Bowling Lanes, then later Friday nights alone engaging in mischief (while parents were league bowling).
- Weekend camping trips to Lake Ramsay, Money Hill, Buccaneer State Park, Flint Creek Water Park in Wiggins, & Gulf Shores.
Growing up in the suburbs of Metairie in the 1970s wasn’t bad at all. Bikes brought us everywhere-- the lakefront’s linear park was always cool to ride to and there always seemed to be something new to find along there: lagoons, new parks, a rope swing on a tree. In 1970’s Metairie there was still a lot of undeveloped land and empty overgrown lots to ‘explore’ and make tree forts in, where we hid the Playboy and Penthouse magazines we sometimes found. Schools were okay -- elementary schools actually taught us things, and although middle school/junior high covers a generally traumatic time of life-- the start of cliques and being ‘cool’, physical maturity, discovering the opposite sex, etc.-- all in all, it was an okay time.
And then when school was over, then it was a GREAT time. As soon as school was over I'd turn all my Toughskins blue jeans into cut-offs and go spend probably two months in Biloxi shuttling between my two grandparents’ homes. One set lived down near The Point about a couple of blocks from the beach, the other set lived near Keesler about three blocks from Back Bay, so I was almost always on the water: fishing, sailing in a little sunfish sailboat, swimming off a pier, flying kites. Had a lot of cousins to hang with as well as two teenage uncles on my dad's side. I rarely wore shoes and often was shirtless. I got tanned as hell and my feet were well-callused and almost black on the bottom most of the time. About the only time I got dressed or cleaned up (which only meant throwing on a t-shirt and those old tire-tread sandals) was if we went out to eat at Baricev's or Rosetti's, or went to the mall, or more likely when we went and saw all those 70s summer movies (often with my cousins at the Surfside)-- Star Wars, The Deep, Grease, Orca, The Spy who Loved Me, Moonraker, etc.
Maybe it’s just me getting older, but it does seem that things were much simpler then. Race relations in particular weren’t so bad -- at least up until the end of disco, there seemed to be no schism between black and white radio or songs -- you could jam on both Stevie Wonder and Steve Miller. Compare that to the almost completely segregated radio scene today. Back then, both black and white kids seemed to realize that we were moving towards a better time, and for the most part, we were ‘coming together’ -- we had all been going to school together since the earliest grades, even if we didn’t live in the same neighborhoods. Nowadays, that doesn’t seem to be the case-- there seems to be nothing at all but separation and divisiveness.
Good '70s remembrances as a kid (in no particular order):
- Riding bikes to Smith’s Records and Tapes in Lakeside Mall, looking at the ganja-smoking Bob Marley albums and cool zodiac posters.
- Putting together model kits of ships, planes, tanks, super-heroes, monsters, cars, spacecraft, and Shogun Warriors, then hanging some of them from my ceiling.
- Riding w/ my dad & sister down from Hattiesburg to Biloxi, pulling over off the highway to swim at Red Creek and then stopping at Lott’s Country Store to get a snack and soda.
- 25¢ comic books: in Metairie at K&B, and in Biloxi 4 blocks down from my grandparents at the Li’l General.
- Football games in Miss Nancy’s empty yard next door w/ other neighborhood kids.
- Fireworks with my cousins at our grandparents' in Biloxi on the 4th and New Year’s Eve -- and plans for all kinds of firework contraptions: exploding blimps, planes, homemade rockets.
- Watching reruns of Gilligan’s Island, Jonny Quest, Speed Racer, Batman, and The Brady Bunch nearly every day after school.
- Weekend crawfish boils at my family's house on the covered back porch, w/ tons of guests coming over, and all the kids running wild and playing ‘blubber monster’ outside in all the front yards.
- Over-abundant Christmases, with bikes, action figures, games, model kits, gas-powered planes, toy railroads, and more.
- Playing frisbee and throwing the football on the one-block street around the corner (less car traffic).
- Junior high dances in the gym, with faux-silk shirts, neck chains, & slacks being the dress of choice; slow-dancing and dancing "The Bump" with various girls.
- Dropping a dollar at The Fun Arcade nearly every day after school in junior high.
- Countless Friday nights at Pelican Bowling Lanes, then later Friday nights alone engaging in mischief (while parents were league bowling).
- Weekend camping trips to Lake Ramsay, Money Hill, Buccaneer State Park, Flint Creek Water Park in Wiggins, & Gulf Shores.
This post was edited on 4/30/24 at 5:04 pm
Posted on 5/2/24 at 6:21 pm to lctiger
quote:
Riding my bike to school and then to Perkins park Eagles football practice, BREC league had teams that wore colors of the high school in their neighborhood
Got your pads on Tom drive Athletes corner
Original Star Wars at Broadmoor Theatre
Piccadilly at Westmoreland on a special occasion
Played for the Uniroyal Bucs (Broadmoor kid)
The Athletic House on Tom Drive. That place had the most glorious smell. It was a combination of new shoes, athletic tape, and spray stick 'em
Original Rocky at Robert E Lee and birthdays at Picadilly in Delmont Village, followed by a trip to Little Folks toy store (we moved to Brownfields by then, and it was a huge culture shock after Broadmoor)
We had the same childhood for awhile everything else was dead on. I will add...
Playing Dixie Youth ball behind Brownfields Elementary (RIP),
A month of Octoberfest weekends at St Isidore with open air card and dice games
Stone Drugs on Plank Rd and fighting the urge to shoplift
Paying 50 cents to swim all day in the trailer park pool on Kleinpeter.
Catching the early of two buses (went in front of Hokie Gajan's house) to get to school early to play football/basketball and walking into classroom a sweaty filthy mess
My Dad buying us a mini-bike and riding the shite out of it until the brake cable failed and we would run into a chain link fence to stop until the fence failed and no more mini-bike.
This post was edited on 5/2/24 at 6:26 pm
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