re: Did your parents/grandparents ever go to auctions?

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Wallace Dean Rd, and lived on the corner of 80 ("cypress" hadn't made it out that far yet)

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Haha, I’m familiar. Very cool.

Grew up wandering through the Gilbeau Kennedy cattle auction in early 1980s Baton Rouge. Near the 61/110/Airline circle thing. Actually behind the old Peterbilt dealership. Don't remember "Kennedy's" first name, but he was a friend of my dad and the main auctioneer. Apparently did auctioneering so long that he ended up having a couple of surgeries on his voice box.

Otherwise, we'd make our way down to Dominique's stockyard (by the old bridge) and occasionally to the two stockyards in Kentwood or the one in Amite. My dad was a weekend cattle hauler, so that was the reason for going to most of those sales--either picking up or delivering cattle, pigs, horses, and, at least one time, a trailer full of sheep.

Equipment-wise, we would usually make the Braswell sale up in Magnolia, and probably every other Henderson auction in Livingston. And, we'd make the monthly auction in Idabell, OK a couple of times a year.

Oddly enough, I don't remember getting any particularly good food at any of those. Maybe with the exception of the Idabel sale where they'd do an appreciation dinner once a year with free AYCE brisket and trimmings.

Went to a lot of cattle auctions as a kid with my father. We would sell at the generic beef sales and buy and sell at the high falootin' Angus and Polled Herford sales where the cattle all had names and papers. When I was 8 or 9 I saw a Polled Herford bull sell for just over 1/4 million dollars and I guarantee that bulls balls stayed dryer than those of a 14-year-old Louisiana boy that just discovered the VPN work around for Porn Hub.