re: Who here grow up in BR in the 80s/90s?

70's/80's guy here. Left in 86.

Things I remember:

Hoppers on Florida and one on Plank
Drive inn theatre. Showtown mainly
Robert E Lee theatre and I lived at the Broadmoor as a kid...when they played first run movies
the old two screen Bon Marche
The Goony Golf on Florida
Skateboard Park on Florida both near Flannery
The devil worshippers on Harrells Ferry Rd, near a horse stable
My brother's horse getting loose from our backyard and running free on Sherwood Forest Blvd.
Sherwood Forest being one lane each way to Choctow, where it was closed and only industrious kids like myself could ahem break into the area
K&B on the corner and riding bikes there everyday in the summer.
Bike riding all over Baton Rouge.
Neighborhood schools. I could walk/bike to all of my public school education K through 12
Top of the tower.
Wilson's
New Generation
The Caterie
Rax and Danver's Roast Beef
Kornmeyer's Furniture
Woolco's
D. H. Holmes and Goudchaux's
Sharp Lane summer baseball
Orange Julius and Montgomery Ward


Yeah Baton Rouge was just a different city and a different time then.