re: Baton Rouge nostalgia thread - old, forgotten businesses

Goudchaux was 1500 Main. Not Florida Street.

Chris' fish bowl beers

Joe Ragusa the bartender at Fleur De Lis was also my ice cream man. Push up in the morning - Cutty Sark with water at night.

Bonapartes Fried Chicken
Danny's Fried Chicken
Wade Lemoines Esso at Old Hammond and Jefferson
Ricca Liquor
Tallawah Lounge with Libby Cevelo and her massive breasts bar tending
Tonga Isle on Wooddale Blvd
Plum Crazy
Rascals
Rip's Huddle
Andrews and Andrews Drugs and Griffons Drugs
T Nincy
Young Fashions
Tic Toc Shoe Repair
A&P Stores
TG&Y had both 5 and Dime and Family Centers
Twin Cedars Shopping Center (now Bocage)
Mushrooms from Whitters pasture
Tony's Donuts
Junior High School-not middle school
Broadmoor High good at football-not basketball
Broadmoor Barber Shop
Soak and Poke at Common Point
Smoking dope at Highland Road or Harrels Ferry parks and kicking hacky sack and frisbee.
Egg salad sandwich at Joe D's on Friday only. In a wax paper sandwich bag for a quarter
Eating dinner with Ms Fannie at the Village or with her son Joe Distanfano at Jack Sabins
Midnight to four Circle Bowl
LaFondas
Black Angus ( same building as LaFonda before them)
Europes and Two Jacks Restaurants by Dons on Airline
Ralph and Kacoos on Airline after they moved from False River

Can't remember the name of the restaurant at Old Hammond and Airline. Seafood with a gravel parking lot
Also can't remember name of restaurant at Highland and Airline that was torn down after Everybody's All American was filmed there. Mike Poppajohn (LSU baseball) was the masked enforcer
that shoved John Goodman through the mirror.

San Souci across the river. White beans on Sunday at Alligator Bar
The Country Place on Nicholson Drive.

Sam Benton She'll at Florida and Wooddale

Payless Cashways
Po Folks
Saturday's at Corporate Square
Mike Andersons in the old grocery store on Highland
Ragusa Superette in McKinley
Hamburgers at Bonaventures on False River