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re: How did Alexandria come to be known as Ellick?
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:23 am to AlxTgr
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:23 am to AlxTgr
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Do you remember the restaurant with the phones? Lion's Share or some such?
You got me there. We always ate BBQ at Outlaws on the South side of the infamous traffic circle.
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Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:25 am to slidingstop
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I first heard it pronounced that way by a cute girl with a NLA accent.
There is a 95% chance she got fat by age 25
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:25 am to AlxTgr
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Lion's Share
Was right across from K & B drugs
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:27 am to TheHarahanian
Being born and raised in the heart of Cajun country, I reject Alexandria's purported coonass status.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:29 am to Zap Rowsdower
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doubled into Sam’s Club trips.
That was the first Sam's Club I ever went to. I think Albertson's opened first and it put our local Piggly Wiggly to shame. Then Sam's came in like "Watch this."
My mom got banned from that Alexandria Sam's.
It was the first time she'd ever been asked for a membership card going in a store, and have her receipt checked on the way out. Well, the line to exit was long, it had been a long day at the mall and us kids were wearing on her patience. When she finally got to the lady checking receipts she went on a rant about "Sam Walton is the anti-christ!!! Do you want me to tattoo my member number on my forehead next!?!?"
Thankfully we were from out of town, and they didn't recognize her the next time we went back.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:32 am to lowhound
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This is the answer. In BR they say AL-lick when pronouncing Alex Box Stadium, in Cenla they say Ellick
Jim Hawthorne was from Anacoco, and for decades the primary way to experience LSU baseball outside of the stadium was via his radio calls. That probably explains why even Baton Rougians tend to pronounce it ""EL-ick Box" or "AL-ick Box" now.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:36 am to Witty_Username
How did the poster witty username come to be known as username?
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:39 am to Clyde Tipton
My parents would load up the Caprice Classic wagon on a Saturday with an ice chest or two and we would go to Sam’s in BR, Lafayette, or Shreveport before there was one on Ellick.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:41 am to Tarps99
quote:Brian "Do it Right" Caubarreaux just built him a big glass office on the circle so he can instantly identify new accident victims.
There is an infamous traffic circle in Ellick that is so large it has its own ecosystem and was the location of so many accidents that attorneys would wait in the shadows handing out business cards to the accident victims
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:43 am to Tigerlaff
quote:There is zero coonass culture in Alexandria. Coonassery stops at the Avoyelles parish line.
I reject Alexandria's purported coonass status.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:53 am to Tarps99
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is so large it has its own ecosystem
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:54 am to Marciano1
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There is zero coonass culture in Alexandria. Coonassery stops at the Avoyelles parish line.
Thankfully this is true.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:54 am to Marciano1
How about Sanama when referring to St. Amant?
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:58 am to Marciano1
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There is zero coonass culture in Alexandria. Coonassery stops at the Avoyelles parish line.
It is odd. You're not 100% right because of the number of people from (mainly Marksville) Avoyelles who either relocate to Alexandria/Pineville or otherwise work there.
However, whereas Alexandria is, basically, like Shreveport or Monroe - culturally detached from any real grounding in Cajun culture - if anything Natchitoches makes it more "New France" than Cajun country - Alexandria is insanely close to Marksville, Bunkie and Ville Platte, which all had (at least while I was growing up) a fairly vibrant Cajun culture and all of those places would consider themselves definitely Cajun.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:04 pm to Butta
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My parents would load up the Caprice Classic wagon on a Saturday
Sorry you were poor. We had the Pontiac Parisienne wagon with the wire hubcaps.
Exactly like this one:
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:07 pm to Tigerlaff
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purported coonass status
It’s redass. Coonass ends at Bunkie.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:17 pm to Shexter
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Sorry you were poor. We had the Pontiac Parisienne wagon with the wire hubcaps
sorry, Caprice Classic Estate, like below. woodgrain paneling and same color
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:26 pm to Tarps99
There was 2 of them to navigate if you were passing through to Natchotiches direction.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:27 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:It's still that way, although I think they've become more coonass/baw culture than old school cajun.
Marksville, Bunkie and Ville Platte, which all had (at least while I was growing up) a fairly vibrant Cajun culture and all of those places would consider themselves definitely Cajun.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:30 pm to jorconalx
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Was right across from K & B drugs
I think it was nextdoor. Lion's Share was sandwiched between K&B and J.C. Penney. The entrance to the theater was across from Lion's Share.
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