re: Did Huey P Long block Alexandria from being a major metro?

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Where did i say that he was governor when they were erected?

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Uhh…

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The indian mounds were created from dirt used from the old nat. Huey didnt want to pay the contractors to haul it off, citing he only paid them to dig the holes.

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Considering the “old nat” at the field house wasn’t built until he was governor, maybe you should clarify what exactly you meant.

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Was in Pineville. 

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Should never have left. Imagine going to college in a bucolic community instead of amidst the urban decay of Baton Rudge.

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Source me a single mention of the indian mounds pre- original natitorium.

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Can you source a single mention that they were created from the fieldhouse dirt? Other than “stories from people”

Maybe some of the dirt was used to heighten the mounds when the field house was being built, but photo evidence has those mounds there long before

Plus, why would they go through the trouble (with possible public ridicule) to date the mounds back 6,000 years if it wasn’t true. Seems like a huge public image liability.

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Now, I've never understood how frigin LA 10 didn't get a bridge across the Atchafalaya right there at Melville! That looks like someone was trying to screw them over.

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If your in a big rush to get across the river at Melville just hop on the railroad bridge.

We’ll look at the brightside. When south Louisiana completely falls in the next 10-15 years, N LA will be the hotbed of the state.

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Which reminds me: is there a better example of a suburb taking over the main town than B/CS?

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Bawcomville/Funroe?

As Charlie Daniels wrote in 1976:

“There's pretty girls in Kansas City
And a man can have a ball
But the women in Ouachita Parish
Drive a young man up the wall”

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This is correct. It’s why 165 runs through Alexandria, but then goes north and crosses the Red river at Fort Buhlow. Pineville’s mayor made Huey mad, and so 165 bypassed Pineville. Even the 167 crossing is south of downtown Pineville.

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This is the story my dad told me. The O. K. Allen bridge was built to bypass Pineville.
My dad also said there was a limerick about O. K. Allen who was governor at the time:

Huey had a puppy
And OK was name.
Whatever Huey said,
O. K. Did the same.

That is what I’ve always heard. Melville. I’ve heard this because My grandfather knew Huey well and was helping with Huey’s campaigning, and Huey was speaking in Melville. Melville was a bigger town on what was the main road then leading to the ferry. The main Highway turned at LeBeau, went thru Palmetto and thru Melville. Some of the townspeople starting jeering at Huey and possibly throwing things. Huey promised them that if he was elected, he would take care of them. He was elected, and the route to BR thru Hwy 71 was no longer thru Melville, but straight to 190 from LeBeau.

My grandfather was the surgeon called in to work on HPL. Was also his doctor. HPL driver was pulled over in Melville by the police and given a warning of some sort. HPL told the officer that Melville will forever pay for the action. He built 71 from bunkie to Hwy 190 and by passed Melville completely.