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Who remembers the LSU building on Stanford?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:58 pm
Years ago across from the lakes. All I remember was it being painted purple and gold with LSU and the helmet painted on the side.
Anyone have a picture of it?
What was it originally?
Anyone have a picture of it?
What was it originally?
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 10:59 pm
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:59 pm to King of New Orleans
It was abandoned when I was at LSU, but wasn’t it a car dealership?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:12 pm to King of New Orleans
Are you talking about the one that was a rug manufacturer in the 70s and used by Billy Cannon to print money in the 80s?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:16 pm to King of New Orleans
Next to the apartments?
I think it was a convenience store.
I think it was a convenience store.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 2:03 am to Red Stick Tigress
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Next to the apartments? I think it was a convenience store.
Believe it had a Fill a Sac in the corner when there was last something open. Over the years that building held a lot of things, though, and people remember it differently. IIRC, at one time or another it held a VW dealer, a night club, and some other operation. Billy Cannon ran his operation and the surveillance van was supposedly parked on the back street in College Town during the investigation.
This post was edited on 12/17/25 at 2:05 am
Posted on 12/17/25 at 3:05 am to King of New Orleans
Late 60's there was a nightclub there....remember seeing Steppenwolf & Grand Funk together!
Posted on 12/17/25 at 4:32 am to King of New Orleans
I think it was a car dealership years ago - like in the 1970-1980’s ?
This post was edited on 12/17/25 at 4:33 am
Posted on 12/17/25 at 4:42 am to GetBackToWork
I remember stopping there as a kid post LSU games.
There was a store there.
There was a store there.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 5:54 am to King of New Orleans
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What was it originally?
A grocery store, but was a bar called "The Speakeasy" when I was a kid.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 7:17 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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A grocery store, but was a bar called "The Speakeasy" when I was a kid.
It was way before my time, but that is what it was called. OP calling it the “LSU Building” I presume was because it had a big mural painted on the side after I think the 2003 NC. But I heard it was once a bar and tons of amazing bands played there in the 70’s.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 7:21 am to King of New Orleans
I always wanted to open up a restaurant/bar in that building and call it the Yacht Club. Have a rooftop bar looking over at the lake. Live music. It would have lost a ton of money but been a helluva time.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 7:44 am to King of New Orleans
The Speakeasy
Posted on 12/17/25 at 8:02 am to Giantkiller
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But I heard it was once a bar and tons of amazing bands played there in the 70’s.
Mainly the late 1960's when I was a wee lad. Somebody in this thread said they saw Steppenwolf and Grand Funk Railroad there in the late 60's. How cool is that? The building was a c-store when I was in junior high and high school that was, shall we say, lax on checking identification for smokes and beer. However, because of its relative isolation, it was a popular "Stop 'n' Rob."
This post was edited on 12/17/25 at 8:38 am
Posted on 12/17/25 at 8:34 am to fuppedduck
It was called the Speakeasy if I remember correctly.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 9:12 am to TigerBR1111
All I ever knew of Billy Cannon was his glory days. I remember my dad several years ago about Billy Cannon in prison. That was the first I heard of this. I'm going to have to read up on this. This sounds fascinating.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 10:18 am to fuppedduck
Unreal!
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:11 pm to MrBobDobalina
i was a student when the place was a Voivo dealership early 70's
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:38 pm to King of New Orleans
The Speakeasy
I remember ZZ Top playing there regularly. They played two sets a night both Friday and Saturday. Five dollars admission for you and your date and all the draft beer you could drink.
ZZ Top ran everyone out of their dressing room a half hour before each performance to do Transcendental Meditation. They were also clean shaven back then.
I know. I know. Hard to believe in today’s world, but there it is.
I remember ZZ Top playing there regularly. They played two sets a night both Friday and Saturday. Five dollars admission for you and your date and all the draft beer you could drink.
ZZ Top ran everyone out of their dressing room a half hour before each performance to do Transcendental Meditation. They were also clean shaven back then.
I know. I know. Hard to believe in today’s world, but there it is.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:44 pm to MidCityTiger
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The Speakeasy
my sister lived in the Atruim? across the street from there one year at LSU, there was a monkey that lived in the "jungle" inside the Atrium, never knew how it got there
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Posted on 12/17/25 at 1:56 pm to fuppedduck
Speakeasy night club was owned by a guy named Jim Brown (not the football player) in the late '60s. A now deceased friend of mine was the lead singer for a band named Potliquor that got its name from a "Name that band" contest that Brown held.
I'll never forget my friend telling me how one night between sets, he went outside and found Chuck Berry, who was also performing at the club that night, sitting down by the lake crying. Sad story, but that place must have been something because everybody played there.
I'll never forget my friend telling me how one night between sets, he went outside and found Chuck Berry, who was also performing at the club that night, sitting down by the lake crying. Sad story, but that place must have been something because everybody played there.
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