re: The Good Old Days in Baton Rouge

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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

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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.