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re: LTI (reform school) Stories
Posted on 4/16/21 at 12:30 am to GasMan
Posted on 4/16/21 at 12:30 am to GasMan
I don't know anything about it except in school they'd always threaten us with LTI when we pulled any tomfoolery. The one in Monroe has a really cool art deco archway over the entrance from the 1930s. They call it something else now and I'm not sure if it's still actually in use. Back in the day, like 40s and 50s, they had outstanding sports teams.
This post was edited on 4/16/21 at 12:32 am
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Posted on 4/16/21 at 2:05 pm to Jim Rockford
My dad was the warden there. Had an apt there. I was young so I don’t much. Just know my brothers went allowed to play outside. They snuck out one day and had cops come try to get them till they called the warden. Mom got a good fussin
Posted on 4/16/21 at 2:28 pm to Jim Rockford
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they had outstanding sports teams.
My granddad was also the head football coach
Posted on 4/16/21 at 3:28 pm to Jim Rockford
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tomfoolery
What about monkey shines?
Chicanery?
Bally-hoo?
Don't even think about pulling any buffoonery, hijinks, or shenanigans.
Posted on 4/16/21 at 3:53 pm to Jim Rockford
LTI Monroe, Southside High School. My dad was a teacher, coach and eventually Superintendent there after Coach A. E. ‘Red’ Swanson retired. It’s now named after Coach Swanson. Swanson played football at LSU and was on the first LSU football team to play ‘under the lights’ at night in Tiger Stadium.
There was a time when they tried to make the place as much as a family situation as possible - no walls, razor wire and the like. This meant a lot of runaways and the male staff spent many a night looking for them. The place went really prison like a few years after my dad retired from there in mid ‘70’s.
LTI had a true working farm and grew most of the food served in the dining hall. They raised beef and had a dairy. They had a wood shop, taught welding, plumbing and several trades. Every boy had to go to school which was on site, there were several teachers on staff.
They had football, baseball and basketball teams and would compete with local schools.
The goal was to reform the boys when they were sent there. At my dad’s funeral, there were a couple of men who came up to me saying he had made a big difference in their life.
There was a time when they tried to make the place as much as a family situation as possible - no walls, razor wire and the like. This meant a lot of runaways and the male staff spent many a night looking for them. The place went really prison like a few years after my dad retired from there in mid ‘70’s.
LTI had a true working farm and grew most of the food served in the dining hall. They raised beef and had a dairy. They had a wood shop, taught welding, plumbing and several trades. Every boy had to go to school which was on site, there were several teachers on staff.
They had football, baseball and basketball teams and would compete with local schools.
The goal was to reform the boys when they were sent there. At my dad’s funeral, there were a couple of men who came up to me saying he had made a big difference in their life.
Posted on 4/16/21 at 9:58 pm to Jim Rockford
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I don't know anything about it except in school they'd always threaten us with LTI when we pulled any tomfoolery. The one in Monroe has a really cool art deco archway over the entrance from the 1930s.
I drove past it several times at night amd it just had a sinister feel to itZ. Like a 1940’s horror film could be shot there perfectly. I never knew much about the history of it and always intended to look it up. May do that tonight.
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