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re: How did Alexandria come to be known as Ellick?
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:32 pm to Clyde Tipton
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:32 pm to Clyde Tipton
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Real talk, I grew up in a small CENLA town about an hour from Ellick. We had to drive there to buy school clothes. It was a pretty big deal to go to the mall in the 80's.
Or go to a movie, or to a nice restaurant, or for any medical attention beyond primary care. When my orthodontist opened a satellite office in our town I was pissed because getting my braces adjusted no longer meant a full day out of school.
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Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:34 pm to Marciano1
Exactly. Once you hit Turkey Creek exit on I49 and start seeing pine trees thats the end of coonass country.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:53 pm to Butta
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Caprice Classic Estate, like below. woodgrain paneling and same color
Oh, ya'll were rich mofo's if your pops had the money for the woodgrain.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:56 pm to TheHarahanian
quote:very few coonasses in ellick
Coonassery
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:56 pm to Witty_Username
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How did Alexandria come to be known as Ellick?
Lazy slack jawed southerners
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:58 pm to Tyga Woods
quote:What rednecks have you hung around?
Alex(andria) in a redneck accent comes out as "Ellick"
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:59 pm to Tarps99
quote:Inside the Ellick turn circle:
There is an infamous traffic circle in Ellick that is so large it has its own ecosystem
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:59 pm to Witty_Username
Same as many other Louisiana cities. Mispronunciations. Alexandria abbreviated to Alex and then Alex is mispronounced as Ellic
Posted on 5/9/25 at 1:01 pm to Witty_Username
Elecxandria shortened
Posted on 5/9/25 at 1:04 pm to AlxTgr
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Not unlike the LSU baseball stadium.
I thought it was named after poontang.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 1:06 pm to Witty_Username
I always just called it Alexandria and I’m from Monroe… only been there once
Posted on 5/9/25 at 1:11 pm to BiggerBear
Nope
Posted on 5/9/25 at 1:22 pm to Witty_Username
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. Apparently, some other posters did not know Ellick is Alexandria,
Raises hand*
Posted on 5/9/25 at 1:34 pm to Tarps99
At one time, pre-I49, there only three traffic circles in Louisiana, and two of them were in Alexandria.
A few of my buddies claim they once did 43 laps around the north traffic circle.
A few of my buddies claim they once did 43 laps around the north traffic circle.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 2:02 pm to holmesbr
Don’t remember the north circle. I only remember the south one. My first trip though Ellick was in the mid1990’s when my junior high band played at Northwestern at state festival.
That was before 49 was finished in downtown Ellick and US90 was still being 4-laned between Morgan City and Houma.
All I remember seeing was the fly over ramps being constructed in the 1990’s and having to detour to the surface streets and our bus had to navigate the circle. If memory serves me right there was a large McDonalds at intersection where you could jump back on 49N and where you exited 49S.
It was like that to almost my senior year in high school in 1999. That was about when some of the sections of 49 in Ellick and US 90 started to open.
That was before 49 was finished in downtown Ellick and US90 was still being 4-laned between Morgan City and Houma.
All I remember seeing was the fly over ramps being constructed in the 1990’s and having to detour to the surface streets and our bus had to navigate the circle. If memory serves me right there was a large McDonalds at intersection where you could jump back on 49N and where you exited 49S.
It was like that to almost my senior year in high school in 1999. That was about when some of the sections of 49 in Ellick and US 90 started to open.
This post was edited on 5/9/25 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 5/9/25 at 2:04 pm to Tyga Woods
quote:
Alex(andria) in a redneck accent comes out as "Ellick"
I mean, I didn't have any idea this was any sort of mystery to anyone.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 2:06 pm to Clyde Tipton
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It was a pretty big deal to go to the mall in the 80's.
Back in the 80s, I'll bet that mall was wonderful.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 2:08 pm to Witty_Username
Ellick needs a Loop
Posted on 5/9/25 at 2:08 pm to lsupride87
quote:apparently ones that say ‘Ellick’
What rednecks have you hung around?
Posted on 5/9/25 at 2:17 pm to Witty_Username
The same way Rigolette became known as Row-Gully
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