re: Broadmoor Sunday afternoon drive-by

I went there as well. A few years ahead of you. Elementary through high school. Lived right behind the high school. Never had to worry about no drive-bys.

I moved to Sherwood when I was 10 in 1974. It was a great neighborhood to grow up in back then. Graduated from Broadmoor in ‘82.

My parents still live there. Hard to see that area going down so fast these last few years.

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Lived right behind the high school.

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Grandeur Drive.

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Are you going to leave BR and if so are you still going to write for the Sadvocate?

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Yes and hell yes

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Down almost to the end of Marilyn for me.

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Near the swimming pool? We occasionally jumped the fence late at night to get in a swim. Are you familiar with the young boy that supposedly drowned in the canal at the end of Marilyn (I believe during the 70s)?

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The double gates in the chain link fence where Browning makes that 90 are there because of me.

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Suicide turn. Lots of accidents there. People hit the fence (by not making a right) or the side of the house on the corner, 1400 S Woodhaven (by not making the left).

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or the side of the house on the corner,

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A girl your age, named Holly lived there.

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20 years from now, when this city is a shell of it's former self, when violent crime touches every neighborhood in both the inner city and suburbs weekly, when major industries have long since packed up and left for a better work force and quality of life for their employees, I hope most will remember how this started;

Following the summer of '16, local political leaders built their power on villainizing the police and restricting their efforts to hold the simplest criminals accountable.

That will be the moment many look back and recognize that they were sold a lie, the consequences of which this area never recovered from.

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Think about this - Baton Rouge under Mayor Broome was objectively worse in basically every category you can conjure up to judge a municipality after her first four years … every … single …one. She did not have one accomplishment to run on. And she won re-election easily. That should tell you everything you need to know about Baton Rouge.

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A girl your age, named Holly lived there.

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And unless she went to Skate City, she had no idea who I was. I was not enough of a somebody to even be a nobody at BHS back then. Went to my first reunion last October (40th) and only a handful of people even knew who I was. Still had a good time though.

Three houses after us to the pool, I think.
I stayed in that canal and others around there. Like behind the elementary school.

There was a large drainage pipe emptying into the canal (or ditch) on the right side of the road, away from the poolside. It carved out a deep hole there that we swam in when it rained. On the day of the drowning there was a big rain and me and a couple of friends were walking home from farther down the ditch and met my mother outside, frantic, because she had heard someone ( I thought it was a young girl) had drowned in that hole. They put up a small gold cross on a post there, don’t know if the cross is still there or not.

I believe it was in the late 60’s. I do know that they filled in that deep hole with concrete right after the drowning.

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They put up a small gold cross on a post there, don’t know if the cross is still there or not.

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That is what I remember as well. Kind of eerie as a kid to see that. I must have been wrong about it being a boy. All along that canal was my favorite place to play as a kid. Good times. Broadmoor was such a great place back then.