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Did Huey Long build the LSU Lakes so Southern wouldn't be constructed next to LSU?

Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:40 pm
Posted by Hugo Stiglitz
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:40 pm
Anyone ever hear this rumor?

I heard it and I thought, "no way that can be true."

Any local history buffs want to shed some light on this?
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 10:42 pm
Posted by RummelTiger
Texas
Member since Aug 2004
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:40 pm to
quote:

Did Huey Long build the LSU Lakes so Southern wouldn't be built next to LSU?


Posted by USMCTiger03
Member since Sep 2007
71176 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:41 pm to
frick of mother.
Posted by Lou Pai
Member since Dec 2014
29214 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:42 pm to
Strong Safety just texted me back and he said that was the main reason, so there you go.
Posted by Fusaichi Pegasus
Meh He Co
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:42 pm to
Good Ole huey
Posted by Walt OReilly
Poplarville, MS
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:42 pm to


Come on man
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:43 pm to
quote:

I heard it and I thought, "no way that can be true."
you motherfricking prove it isn't true

if you can
Posted by TheIrishFro
Member since Aug 2010
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:44 pm to
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This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 9:13 am
Posted by Bushmaster
19th Hole
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:44 pm to
Could you imagine black pizza girl?
Posted by Ancient Astronaut
Member since May 2015
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:44 pm to
Huey pls
Posted by Artie Rome
Hwy 1
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:46 pm to
I've heard it my entire life.
Posted by LSUfan4444
Member since Mar 2004
55631 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:46 pm to
LINK

quote:

The LSU lakes were developed from swamps in the 1930s as a public works project.


From what I have read it was part of a WPA Project during the Great Depression, but because of it's vagueness it leaves itself open for rumors
Posted by soccerfüt
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Member since May 2013
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:47 pm to
When Huey lived Huey worried about Huey, not anybody or anything else.

Huey child, things are gonna get easier.
Posted by dagrippa
Saigon
Member since Nov 2004
11759 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:47 pm to
Yea, they fired the original planner for southern because he insisted on putting the campus in the middle of a cypress swamp. Actually, his first choice was the middle of the fricking Mississippi River but those racist bastards flooded the area with muddy water and they had to search for alternative sites.
Posted by lsu480
Downtown Scottsdale
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:48 pm to
Yes
Posted by Tactical1
Denham Springs
Member since May 2010
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:48 pm to
quote:

Anyone ever hear this rumor?


I have heard it,

I don't know anything about it though, but I have heard the story.
Posted by Jefferson Davis
Plank Road
Member since Nov 2011
5960 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:48 pm to
Huey built Mississippi to keep the Alabama trash out of his kingdom.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
150131 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:49 pm to
quote:

When Huey lived Huey worried about Huey, not anybody or anything else
frick you you lying cracker a-hole huey said he would live on bread and water if it would end world hunger
Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:53 pm to

I stand corrected, I want argue the point.
Posted by ruzil
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2012
17904 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:53 pm to
quote:

The LSU lakes were developed from swamps in the 1930s as a public works project.


Everyone knows who can't normally swim. Huey actually saved Students of Southern from drowning in the swamps Northeast of LSU.

Huey P Long, SJW
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