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Posted on 5/15/18 at 7:35 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Technically, it's in Varnado not Bogalusa. As a teenager, I got to meet Kansas who stayed at the Sportsman Inn where my Mom was a desk clerk. I also remember Stevie Wonder giving a concert while he recorded there as well.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 7:44 pm to Bryno1960
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Technically, it's in Varnado not Bogalusa
actually it's closer to Bogalusa and has a Bogalusa address.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 7:49 pm to PCRammer
My hometown of New Llano, LA, was the largest, the most recent and the most successful Socialist Colony to exist in the USA.
Hard Core Leftist Socialist Colony of Louisiana
Hard Core Leftist Socialist Colony of Louisiana
Posted on 5/15/18 at 7:59 pm to PCRammer
To date, the 10th leading scorer in the NBA, was from mine.
Eta: Also Timmy Smith grew up in the area until he knew his dad's name was Tug
Eta: Also Timmy Smith grew up in the area until he knew his dad's name was Tug
This post was edited on 5/15/18 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:02 pm to PCRammer
I grew up in Marksville, the birth place of Gov. Edwin Edwards.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:18 pm to PCRammer
My hometown is on top of a dormant volcano.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:21 pm to PCRammer
it means "red stick" in french
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:41 pm to White Roach
quote:One of my kid’s grandfather-in-law IS a Bataan Death March survivor.
What are the chances five guys from the area were all captured on the Bataan peninsula AND survived the death march, plus the next 4-1/2 years as slave laborers?
Born in March of 1920, and yes he’s 98 years-old.
He was sent to work as slave labor in a Japanese copper mine on the West Coast of Japan from the Summer of ‘42 to August of ‘45.
Not to nit-pick but they were POWs from March of ‘42 to August of ‘45, a bit less than 3 1/2 years, not 4 1/2 years.
This post was edited on 5/15/18 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:45 pm to AUsteriskPride
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Popeye writer Tom Sims
I thought popeye was from Chester Illinois.
Jerry Lewis, Mickey gilley and Jimmy swaggart are all from my hometown. As well as Howard K Smith.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:47 pm to soccerfüt
I have learned from researching Tigerdroppings that my hometown of Lafayette boasts the largest collection of Affliction shirts in the world.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:53 pm to PCRammer
My home town once had a war college called "Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy"....the war college later moved to Baton Rouge and was renamed LSU.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:01 pm to Spankum
Home of the first Popeyes establishment!
ETA: Dammit Bourre
ETA: Dammit Bourre
This post was edited on 5/15/18 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:05 pm to Spankum
The first attempted hijacking of a plane is the US occurred in Chicot County, California. The would be hijacker pulled a gun when asked for a ticket and said "here's my ticket" and demanded to be flown to Smackover, Ar.
And Smackover is the city with the most people in the college football HOF per capita with 2 and a population of 1763...Clyde "Smackover" Scott and Coach Wayne Hardin. Bill Belichick credits Hardin with influencing his desire to coach and approach to coaching as his dad was an assistant under Hardin at the US Naval Academy.
And Smackover is the city with the most people in the college football HOF per capita with 2 and a population of 1763...Clyde "Smackover" Scott and Coach Wayne Hardin. Bill Belichick credits Hardin with influencing his desire to coach and approach to coaching as his dad was an assistant under Hardin at the US Naval Academy.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:48 pm to PCRammer
The #1 pick in the 1989 MLB draft is from my home town. (Ben McDonald).
The first Guard for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ever from LA is from my home town. We played ball together.
The 1980’s Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was from my hometown.
ETA LINK to Klan Man
The first Guard for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ever from LA is from my home town. We played ball together.
The 1980’s Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was from my hometown.
ETA LINK to Klan Man
This post was edited on 5/16/18 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:51 pm to PCRammer
The Las Vegas Strip is not located in Las Vegas
Posted on 5/15/18 at 10:09 pm to PCRammer
Help put man on the Moon...
Posted on 5/16/18 at 12:19 am to soccerfüt
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Not to nit-pick but they were POWs from March of ‘42 to August of ‘45, a bit less than 3 1/2 years, not 4 1/2 years.
You know what really sucks? I did the math in my head before I typed it. I knew the garrisons held out for a while after Pearl Harbor. I seem to remember Dugout Doug bailing out of Corregidor for Australia around Christmas, 1941 and the garrisons surrendering in early 1942. I knew hostilities (for the most part) in the Pacific Theater ended in August, 1945. (I believe the formal surrender was signed in September.) But you are correct, I fricked up the math.
That's great that your kid's grandfather has lived such a long life after such terrible deprivation. Same as Louis Zamperini. It's amazing that their lives weren't greatly shortened from malnutrition and mistreatment. You'd think time spent as slave labor would age a guy worse than dog years.
The five Bataan vets from Bogalusa is crazy to me. It's not a big place. I bet they don't have 15,000 people living there now. The population might have been larger in the '30s and '40s. There was a huge lumber industry up there, but I can't imagine it ever being over 30,000 or so.
Posted on 5/16/18 at 1:13 am to Aspercel
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The odd history is the only thing known about my town.
1. You can “eat where it all began” at the birthplace of KFC.
2. I think we now have the only reoccurring moonbow left. Go Cumberland falls!
I used to spend a lot of time in your town. Have some great pics of the falls in the snow.
Posted on 5/16/18 at 1:40 am to Evolved Simian
My hometown was a forest owned by a lumber company as recently as the 1960s.
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