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re: Baton Rouge nostalgia thread: Florida Boulevard businesses edition
Posted on 5/19/20 at 2:31 pm to Mark Makers
Posted on 5/19/20 at 2:31 pm to Mark Makers
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How about the haunted house? Not sure if it had a name...
Al Azar Grotto is who put it on IIRC
From their FB page:
About
Al Azar Grotto is a social club in Baton Rouge for Master Masons. We wear black fezzes, support dental treatments for children and the McMains Center, and regularly get together for good fun and fellowship. We meet on third Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
I haven’t thought about that place in years
My moms boss was one of the members & we always went
Mid 80’s
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Posted on 5/19/20 at 2:33 pm to fallguy_1978
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You almost had to know that place was back there or you'd never see it from the street. They had like 3 tables
Like many people here, I grew up on Florida Blvd. Somewhere around 2003-5 one of my coworkers said he wanted a meatball poboy from Anthony's. Drove by this place from childhood until that point thousands of times, never knew it was there. In the next 5 years, I think we ate there almost every week.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 2:35 pm to The Korean
There used to be a pharmacy in that same strip mall that my dad's buddy ran so that's how i knew it was there. I worked on Florida from 2003-2013 and we used to go eat lunch there fairly often.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 2:53 pm to fallguy_1978
Globe
Pitts Grill
The skateboard park behind Sherwood Vet Clinic. It was open a very short time, but we rode our bikes for years out there.
Pitts Grill
The skateboard park behind Sherwood Vet Clinic. It was open a very short time, but we rode our bikes for years out there.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 2:56 pm to Auburntiger
BMX track behind Capitol Schwinn Cyclery
Posted on 5/19/20 at 3:02 pm to Auburntiger
Anyone remember Danvers across from BonMarche’? Loved their roast beef sandwiches
Posted on 5/19/20 at 3:07 pm to JW
quote:
PUTT PUTT
I was about 4 when I hauled off and whacked my old man in the head on the backswing there one night. Can't remember if that was before or after the Fun Fair Park trip next door.
Rax was great, but don't forget about Danvers, which had killer ham sandwiches. That Rax chocolate shake, though, was amazing, as was the roast beef.
A little further up north on Florida was the old Kmart. I remember how big it was when they opened on Sundays, circa 1984, as the blue laws finally went bye-bye.
On the other side of Airline on Florida was the Broadmoor and Wesley's Pizza was tucked right next door to it. That family that owned it now runs Pastime. New Generation and Godfather's Pizza were a little further down, too.
Godfather's was the best pizza chain around, and I miss it. I always hit it up in Mobile on the way back from Orange Beach or at the Love's truck stop right outside of Beaumont coming back from Houston.
This post was edited on 5/19/20 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 5/19/20 at 3:14 pm to Stretch Suba
Matthews Awning on Madeleine Court
Broadmoor Gulf
IH Rubenstein dept. store
688 Auto Parts
Broadmoor Gulf
IH Rubenstein dept. store
688 Auto Parts
Posted on 5/19/20 at 3:15 pm to Stretch Suba
Loupe's RC track and store.
This post was edited on 5/19/20 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 5/19/20 at 3:18 pm to Stretch Suba
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Godfather's was the best pizza chain around, and I miss it.
Yes it was and I do too
Posted on 5/19/20 at 3:26 pm to The Godfather
checks out
Posted on 5/19/20 at 3:32 pm to RealityTiger
Steak & Ale was about a block off Florida
Posted on 5/19/20 at 3:39 pm to Paul Allen
Skate City FTW (my first real job)
ETA: Bert's Camera & Records (my dad was the manager), the Squirrels Nest (our neighbor owned it) and Baskins & Robbins were all in Sherwood Plaza shopping center right off of Sherwood Forest Boulevard.
ETA: Bert's Camera & Records (my dad was the manager), the Squirrels Nest (our neighbor owned it) and Baskins & Robbins were all in Sherwood Plaza shopping center right off of Sherwood Forest Boulevard.
This post was edited on 5/19/20 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 5/19/20 at 3:39 pm to Auburntiger
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The son of the original owner opened up a Location in Prairieville - and yes, you can get a John White Special
He posts here, or did. BigJake I think
Posted on 5/19/20 at 3:45 pm to Paul Allen
quote:Originally Skate City (I worked there in the late 70s early 80s as a skate guard). Later it was bought out and renamed Roller City.
Wasn’t it called Skate City?
That’s the one close to Denham
Posted on 5/19/20 at 4:01 pm to Wolfhound45
Yep
Posted on 5/19/20 at 4:03 pm to LSUGrad00
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My grandfather built up a trip to New Generation like we were going to Disney World
My dad loved going there and looking around but not buying shite because he was cheap so, for me, it would be like going to Disney World and looking at it through the gates.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 4:05 pm to Paul Allen
How about this store next to the current La Morenita?
What a name
What a name
Posted on 5/19/20 at 4:34 pm to Hangit
quote:When you’re eight years old you can tolerate just about anything
The food was bland and not good.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 4:47 pm to Auburntiger
quote:
BMX track behind Capitol Schwinn Cyclery
In the 80s the start gate would randomly snap back and throw everyone over the handle bars.
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