re: Baton Rouge nostalgia: TG&Y and McCrory stores…

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We had a TG&Y in east Houma. My mom would let me get a pack of 1989 Donruss baseball cards every time we went shopping there. It was connected to a Winn Dixie and a K&B in the shopping center, I think.

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You are correct.

That shopping center was hit by a tornado in 2000 and the TG&Y was badly damaged and never reopened as TG&Y. McCorys split up the space and put a smaller McCorys there, along with a few other stores. McCorys finally closed in 2002. The TG&Y space is now occupied by an Ollies and other stores including a Dollar Store.

Winn Dixie built a newer store down Prospect near the bridge, but that didn’t last. Winn Dixie exited the Houma market by 2003 or 04. Cannatas moved in part of the WinnDixie space, but Hurricane Ida forced it to close and never reopened. Roses is now in the space.

The K&B moved across the street on Grand Caillou and eventually moved up the corporate name change from Rite Aid to now Walgreens.

As a south Lafourchian, I remember the TG&Y in Larose. It was in a shopping center with a National Grocery Store. There was also a fancy clothing store chain there too, maybe Beal’s. I can’t remember the name, but you could get your Girbeaud jeans there. For you party animals, the Greenhouse and the Greenhouse II were in that shopping center. Mr. Cook was also there in an outparcel by the road. Eventually, Callais Cable moved offices into the TG&Y space. Frank’s supermarket moved into the National space, and the whole shopping center declined in the 2000’s. Callais was purchased by Latelco and Frank’s built a new store on 3235 in Larose. Hurricane Ida finished what was left in that shopping center and has been the process of being demolished.

RIP TG&Y, the Waltons and Chicoms put them out of business