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re: 1 dead and another injured at Bogalusa High School Basketball game
Posted on 1/13/24 at 10:12 am to Train is comin
Posted on 1/13/24 at 10:12 am to Train is comin
Would someone with too much time on their hands give me the cliff notes version of the history of this town? Why was it once a nice suburban type town? What happened?
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Posted on 1/13/24 at 10:34 am to Haydo
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What happened?
Even back to the 1960’s, Bogalusa was the butt if jokes because of the smell from the paper mill. There wasn’t a reason anyone from the northshore would want or need to go to Bogalusa. I heard that some powerful locals would find out where a business like McDonald’s was interested in opening, buy the land, and then ask an outrageous price for the property so development was stagnant. One time in the 1990’s (I think) they put Bogalusa’s name on the I-12 exit sign but folks in Mandeville and Covington had the sign replaced. I also have heard some of the Mississippi Burning types of problems were perpetrated by Bogalusa residents.
It just seems like a nice little town that stagnated and anyone who had the resources to move, did.
Posted on 1/13/24 at 10:48 am to purple18
Lemme Google Bogalusa demographics real qu...
Posted on 1/13/24 at 12:16 pm to GRTiger
From Wikipedia:
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Crime: With a crime rate of 60 per one thousand residents, Bogalusa has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes- from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 17. Within Louisiana, more than 92% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Bogalusa.[21]
Posted on 1/13/24 at 12:31 pm to ShoeBang
quote:The apostrophe count will be high.
1 dead and another injured at Bogalusa High School Basketball game
Posted on 1/13/24 at 8:27 pm to BobABooey
Bogalusa used to be a great small town in the 60s -80s. Paper Mill has been the biggest employer and biggest curse to the city. When one company owns all the surrounding land they can control who comes in and who doesn’t. The only place to work there was the paper mill. The young people who could left went to college and never returned so all you have left is the ones who couldn’t leave and the ones working at the Mill. Sad
Posted on 1/13/24 at 10:14 pm to purple18
I’ve met people who grew up there. I’ve never met anyone who still lives there.
Posted on 1/13/24 at 11:17 pm to Gaspasr1
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Gaspasr1
Bogalusa used to be a great small town in the 60s -80s. Paper Mill has been the biggest employer and biggest curse to the city. When one company owns all the surrounding land they can control who comes in and who doesn’t. The only place to work there was the paper mill. The young people who could left went to college and never returned so all you have left is the ones who couldn’t leave and the ones working at the Mill. Sad
I was born in Bogalusa in 1970. My mom's people are from just up the road (Varnado/Angie). Back then it was a decent town with no crime and just a bunch of country folks who wanted to live life and be left alone.
My dad worked at the bag/box plant until it closed circa 1975. That was the best thing that ever happened to us, as it turns out. He found work fairly quickly in BR and we moved there and never looked back.
So yes, that is 100% accurate about people leaving and staying gone.
My mom has a couple of relatives still alive over there and our family cemetery is just outside of town, so my mom and aunts go over there a couple times a year to visit. I went with them once a few years ago. It was the first time I had been in about 20 years. What I saw made me really sad. The educated folks left, the decent old people are all dead now, and what is left is akin to a third-world country.
This post was edited on 1/13/24 at 11:18 pm
Posted on 1/14/24 at 7:44 am to purple18
Hmmm, let me guess.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 7:47 am to Oswald
quote:Umm, it’s the Bogalusa citizens that make the place a shithole
Something tells me this is why citizens used to take matters into their own hands...
It ain’t like a town full of good people being run by a corrupt Brad Wesley
This post was edited on 1/14/24 at 7:49 am
Posted on 1/14/24 at 7:51 am to purple18
Put some respek on my name shorty. Pew, pew, pew.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 7:55 am to purple18
How did this happen, asks the one nation where this always happens.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 8:32 am to Swagga
quote:
he feds need to provide assistance, but these towns need to fix from the inside. To put it on a larger scale NOLA is a great example. The city needs support from the state police, DEA, etc but the root of the issue has to be fixed at the local level. You need local people to do that. Is it painful and slow, of course. But the fed running things is not the answer.
Fatherless / absentee parenting is the root issue, hence it is LBJs fault.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 8:34 am to Macduff
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How did this happen, asks the one nation where this always happens.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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