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BREC opens new park, but can’t operate old one.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:35 pm
Liberty Lagoon:
Howell Park;
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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - That sweltering southern heat is returning, and spending some time soaking in the pool is a great way to cool off.
Unfortunately, lifeguard shortages have one of Baton Rouge’s most enjoyable summer attractions sitting empty.
Howell Park;
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Friday’s event at the park begins at 6 p.m. with the ribbon cutting, followed by a Late Night Hype event from 7 to 10 p.m. Late Night Hype will include late swim hours, a DJ, and inflatables.
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Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:36 pm to doubleb
I hear you meet the most interesting people at Industriplex park.
BREC sure shits the bed a lot for an organization with such a generous budget.
BREC sure shits the bed a lot for an organization with such a generous budget.
This post was edited on 6/10/25 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:39 pm to doubleb
Brec has a 600 million dollar surplus meaning that if they refunded the money, every taxpayer in Baton Rouge would get a check for 1 million dollars
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:39 pm to doubleb
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opens new park
What's the new park?
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This park is located in the mid-west part of East Baton Rouge Parish. Howell Community Park serves a larger geographic area than a neighborhood park and is designed to engage the entire family for a whole day. Higher levels of maintenance, security, and recreational opportunities are offered at community parks. This is one of BREC's oldest parks.
ETA: Looks like they did some improvements at Howell Park and built a swimming pool for North BR Residents.
Swimming pool - one lifeguard
Water park - many lifeguards
This post was edited on 6/10/25 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:41 pm to doubleb
quote:Once it opens soon to be known as "Fjungle Fjord" due to all the miscreant Scandinavian local utes misbehaving there.
Liberty Lagoon:
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:45 pm to doubleb
If you are of the demographic that has a kid with the ability to swim well enough to qualify to be hired as a lifeguard, would you want that kid dealing with the demographic that pays $12 to drop their kids for 8 hours of baby sitting at a city run waterpark?
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:47 pm to doubleb
As a terrible golfer with no money i used to love playing golf there. Not crowded. Cheap to play
Still pissed they closed it
Still pissed they closed it
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:49 pm to Shexter
I posted Howell Park
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:50 pm to el Gaucho
So there are only 600 taxpayers?
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:51 pm to LSUMJ
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As a terrible golfer with no money i used to love playing golf there. Not crowded. Cheap to play Still pissed they closed it
It was a tricky little layout, but they didn’t keep it up.
We played baseball there also. Legion and High School.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:51 pm to LSUMJ
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As a terrible golfer with no money i used to love playing golf there. Not crowded. Cheap to play
Still pissed they closed it
I hated that course with it's concrete ditch on every hole.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:53 pm to doubleb
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Friday’s event at the park begins at 6 p.m. with the ribbon cutting, followed by a Late Night Hype event from 7 to 10 p.m. Late Night Hype will include late swim hours, a DJ, and inflatables.
Forgot shootings
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:53 pm to doubleb
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Late Night Hype event from 7 to 10 p.m. Late Night Hype will include late swim hours, a DJ, and inflatables.
Midnight basketball returns!
Posted on 6/10/25 at 3:57 pm to Shexter
I am almost positive Howell Park had a pool originally,
Posted on 6/10/25 at 4:05 pm to doubleb
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I am almost positive Howell Park had a pool originally,
It might have years ago. Many parks filled in their pool with segregation in the 60's.
BREC closed all pools indefinitely in May of 1964, two days before a court ruling on segregation.
City Park had a pool at one time.
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Ultimately refiled and ruled on by U.S. District Court on May 18, 1964, the ruling stated that there was, “There is no legal obligation or duty on the part of the City-Parish to provide or operate recreational facilities, but if they do, they cannot provide and maintain them on a racially segregated basis.”
BREC closed City Park and 9 other public pools in the area shortly after the resolution of the case, citing declining revenues and damage caused by an Alaskan earthquake. While other facilities eventually restarted operation in the following few years, City Park Pool never reopened. Left to stagnate, it was finally filled in 1990.
I know the Gus Young pool was filled in about 10 years ago.
Brooks Park was one of the first pools to allow blacks to swim.
If you want to read all about it - https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-baton-rouge-swim-in-east-baton-rouge-parish-library/yAXBMWwNlIjDJw?hl=en
This post was edited on 6/10/25 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 6/10/25 at 4:17 pm to Shexter
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I hated that course with it's concrete ditch on every hole.
And the old troll that would walk those ditches collecting the lost balls. He had a good collection of them.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 4:22 pm to doubleb
It did. As late as the early to mid seventies for sure.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 4:43 pm to doubleb
They built a nice new pool at Howell Park?! They can't swim!
Posted on 6/10/25 at 4:46 pm to Shexter
Wow. I always wondered why other cities had community pools and BR did not. Had no idea they were closed down.
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