re: Anybody here from Lake Providence?

Posted by financetiger38

Member since Nov 2022

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:13 pm to BabyTac

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Used to drive through there from Ruston to Baton Rouge. Pretty lake, nice camp houses. Always figured it was a hidden gem. At least it was nicer than Transylvania.

Why were you taking 2 hour detours on your way to BR?

Posted by tiger2180

Member since Nov 2015

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:15 pm to Jim Rockford

Hung out with some of the local talent at Sweet Peas a time or two in my younger days.

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Posted by Havoc

Member since Nov 2015

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:18 pm to Jim Rockford

Good friend from undergrad was from there. Iirc he grew up pretty middle class but went to med school and he’s a gosh dang brain surgeon now.

Posted by jeffsdad

Member since Mar 2007

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:18 pm to financetiger38

I think his is thinking of Caney Lake.

Posted by Obtuse1

Westside Bodymore Yo

Member since Sep 2016

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:19 pm to Terbulance69

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Either you had money and had house on lake, or below poverty line

Just looked at it on Google maps and if they hadn't put 65 so close to the west shoreline there would be a lot of land worth a lot more. Of course when they cut the road in farmers would have been pissed, at the time anyway.

Posted by whatiknowsofar

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:20 pm to Jim Rockford

I have family there. Several last names I ain't saying haha

Posted by MSTiger33

Member since Oct 2007

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:20 pm to The Boat

I grew up with a bunch of Melville folks. There are some good people from there. Only knew one girl from LP. She was interesting.

Posted by soccerfüt

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:22 pm to Jim Rockford

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A kid from Lake Providence was at the other end of the hall in my freshman dorm at LSU. Chinese dude whose parents fled after the communists took over and landed in Lake Providence, of all places. The family ran a grocery store. I never got to talk to him much but I bet he had some stories.

The first Chinese in the Mississippi Delta settled around Greenville, MS and were merchants. That was over 100 years ago.

I’ve met some of their descendants who are 100% Chinese DNA and have accents like Shelby Foote.

It was a trip to meet them originally.

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Posted by EF Hutton

Member since Jan 2018

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:24 pm to soccerfüt

You can here the dobros playing when riding thru there. Old dude rocking on a chair in front of an abandoned boarded up Napa store.

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Posted by pbro62

Baton Rouge

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:24 pm to BabyTac

Go figure your dumbass driving through there to get to BR

Posted by biohzrd

Central City

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Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:30 pm to tiger2180

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Hung out with some of the local talent at Sweet Peas a time or two in my younger days.

Would this be the Sweet Peas near Oak Grove and Forrest La? If so I’ve been there a time or two. Up there you truely feel like the world ends at the Parrish lines. Very secluded, and very shut off from the rest of the world