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re: LSU should have chose the bluffs in NBR

Posted on 6/5/19 at 2:38 pm to
Posted by doubleb
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2006
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Posted on 6/5/19 at 2:38 pm to
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I understand the timeline. Point still stands.

I guess you're maybe saying that the ESSO site was the highest natural ground on the riverfront to where it was feasible to build it. Locating that where it was, was such a double edged sword for BR, though


Exxon beat LSU and the state to the best property was my point and it’s location became problematic in some ways but it’s location did provide high and dry neighborhoods close by for the 100s of blue collar workers who worked for ESSO.

BTW Southern University moved to its present location in 1914 so they beat LSU to the spot also.
Posted by RedPop4
Santiago de Compostela
Member since Jan 2005
14600 posts
Posted on 6/5/19 at 3:45 pm to
I am certain that Esso being so close and having the high ground did not sit too well with ol' Huey, either. He hated the oil companies, something fierce, unless they were quietly contributing to the deduct box.
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