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re: Petitin's Store, Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish in 1938
Posted on 12/28/14 at 9:28 am to TigerTattle
Posted on 12/28/14 at 9:28 am to TigerTattle
My 81 yr old mother in law swears by Vicks to cure all ills. House smells like camphor!
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Posted on 12/28/14 at 9:28 am to TrueTiger
quote:I really wish this was a good coffee because it brands itself as the coffee of "Cajun Land". But, damn, that shite is nasty.
Mello Joy coffee
Posted on 12/28/14 at 9:29 am to Skillet
This is 1938? Wow, that's very impressive for such a rural store to have electricity. Notice the light hanging over the front steps.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 9:34 am to Nativebullet
Also noticed the downspout from the gutter went into the building or maybe it's just hanging freely
There's a sign on the door that says Creole Belle Coffee
There's a sign on the door that says Creole Belle Coffee
This post was edited on 12/28/14 at 9:38 am
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:04 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
She called it Vicks Salve.
Everyone from that era calls it that. My Dad is 77 and calls it that. He said my grandpa used to eat a table spoon of it everyday. I told him that stuff wasn't made to be ingested
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:07 am to SuperSaint
Reminds me of The River Shack when they took siding off to find old signs painted on the original building...
This post was edited on 12/28/14 at 10:10 am
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:07 am to Ponchy Tiger
When we had colds, we got that stuff rubbed all over our chests and a dollop stuffed up our nostrils.
Seemed to help.
LC
Seemed to help.
LC
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:09 am to Hangover Haven
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The River Shack Tavern
Is that what it looks like today? I haven't been there since around 1997 or so, when I moved out of Metairie.
LC
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:10 am to Jim Rockford
I don't want fop God damnit
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:10 am to mamoutiga
quote:
Chicory isn't as common around this part of the state
I grew up on Cane River and never heard of chicory until I went to NO.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:11 am to LongueCarabine
Yes, I think they took the siding off some time around 2000...
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:13 am to Caplewood
quote:
I don't want fop God damnit
"I'm a Dapper Dan man!"
"Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!"
I could watch that movie endlessly.
LC
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:15 am to Lakeboy7
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I grew up on Cane River and never heard of chicory until I went to NO.
New Orleanians had to resort to using chicory as coffee because of the naval blockade of N.O. during the Civil War.
I guess people in the northern and western parts of the state either went without or had some other source for it.
LC
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:15 am to Minnesota Tiger
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Creole Belle is the name of a James Lee Burke novel set in New Iberia.
That book came out in 2013
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:15 am to LSUgusto
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I really wish this was a good coffee because it brands itself as the coffee of "Cajun Land". But, damn, that shite is nasty.
you ain't kidding
I'd never heard of it before my daughter started at sacred heart in grand coteau...figured it must be good if everyone drinks it
it is incredibly awful
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:34 am to SuperSaint
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In the early 19th century, Buzzard Prairie served as a stopping point for travelers between Washington, Louisiana and St. Martinville, Louisiana. The thriving community had two bakeries, a cobbler, millinery, and blacksmith shop, a post office, 6 bars and 9 brothels.
LINK
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:43 am to heypaul
It isn't very well known, but you could travel by steamboat all the way from New Orleans to Washington via the Mississippi River, Bayou Teche and Bayou Courtableau.
Washington was the turnaround point, the bayou was too narrow to navigate further north.
There was also a skirmish fought in the area during the Civil War. My GF lives a bit north of Washington and there is a Union soldier buried in that area.
LC
Washington was the turnaround point, the bayou was too narrow to navigate further north.
There was also a skirmish fought in the area during the Civil War. My GF lives a bit north of Washington and there is a Union soldier buried in that area.
LC
This post was edited on 12/28/14 at 10:46 am
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:58 am to Nativebullet
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This is 1938? Wow, that's very impressive for such a rural store to have electricity. Notice the light hanging over the front steps.
I do know that Rural Electrification was one of the larger undertaking of FDR's New Deal - that would have started in early/mid 1930's - Huey Long also had a lot to do with rural electrification, so maybe even earlier in rural Louisiana? That is an interesting point, and I'd like to know the when's and how's to that process in Louisiana.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:02 pm to LongueCarabine
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It isn't very well known, but you could travel by steamboat all the way from New Orleans to Washington via the Mississippi River, Bayou Teche and Bayou Courtableau.
Washington was the turnaround point, the bayou was too narrow to navigate further north.
There was also a skirmish fought in the area during the Civil War. My GF lives a bit north of Washington and there is a Union soldier buried in that area.
LC
My mother's first cousin owns Magnolia Ridge in Washington.
Posted on 12/29/14 at 3:23 am to Jim Rockford
my dad was born and raised in Washington, in mid 1990's they moved from baton rouge back to Washington - the family still owns land around there and has a plantation home east of Washington off of the grand prairie hwy.
This post was edited on 12/29/14 at 3:32 am
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