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Louisiana History
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:40 am
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:40 am
Live in Texas but I am a total "Louisianafile"- fascinated by a state that has its own culture, laws, language.. I love that history seems to have been preserved in much of the state just because nobody had the money or thought to tear stuff down.
What is your favorite historical fact, location or story about Louisiana?
What is your favorite historical fact, location or story about Louisiana?
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Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:42 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
The lost boy trying to find his way back to his trout line out past booth comma to da top s grocery.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:43 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Thanks for looking at us like some sort of jungle tribe
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:44 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
The ladies of New Orleans would empty their chamber pots from their windows on the heads of Union soldiers during the Union occupation of New Orleans during the Civil War.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:45 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Herman Johnson was the biggest baby born in Louisiana. A little known fact rarely mentioned when Johnson played.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:50 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
I'm absolutely fascinated by the stories about Storyville, which was the red light/vice district in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century.
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Storyville, bounded by Customhouse (Iberville), North Basin (North Saratoga), St. Louis and North Robertson streets, operated until Nov. 12, 1917. U.S. military officials convinced the city that Storyville was a bad influence for WWI troops stationed near New Orleans.
In the district's heyday, property owners, madames, liquor retailers and other anonymous interested parties published guides to the red-light district, known as Blue Books, from 1898 to 1915.
E.J. Bellocq documented Storyville's prostitutes through a series of portraits, discovered after his death in 1949. The photographs, taken in the early 1900s, showcase the lives and work of women who often existed on society's fringes.
Little is known about Bellocq's life, but his photographs have inspired several fictional portrayals of him in books and movies, including 1978's "Pretty Baby." The film, which starred a 12-year-old Brooke Shields, was filmed in New Orleans at the Columns Hotel.
New Orleans' most famous red light district Storyville opened as part of a reform effort to regulate vice in New Orleans in 1897.
Lulu White was one of the most famous madames in Storyville. Her brothel, the four-story Mahogany Hall, employed 40 prostitutes and contained 15 bedrooms and five parlors. White was often in trouble with the law. Though most of her charges were related to serving liquor without a license and running an "immoral house," she was also known to grow violent when patrons threatened her business or her employees.
Tom Anderson, a businessman and politician known as the mayor of Storyville, owned several restaurants, saloons and brothels in the area. When Storyville was shuttered, Anderson's heyday ended. In 1920, he was charged in federal court with knowingly conducting an immoral resort within 10 miles of a military camp. The charge was eventually dropped.
Storyville played a role in jazz history. Pianist Jelly Roll Morton was one of the iconic musicians who got his start playing in Storyville's brothels and saloons.
This post was edited on 3/21/24 at 7:52 am
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:51 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
I've always liked Mark Twain and pretty much anything that has to do with Louisiana, so for me it has to be the old capitol bldg that he called "the monstrosity on the Mississippi" because of its architecture.
Also - for years after the event, there were pencils stuck in the ceiling of the current capitol bldg where someone didn't want a bill to pass a vote, so they went into the chambers and threw all the pencils at the desks up to stick into the ceiling to prevent anyone from being able to check off their vote.
Similar thing with the bullet holes in the walls of the capitol bldg from the assassination of Huey :Long.
A whole lot of the more entertaining history of Louisiana revolves around the politics for sure.
Also - for years after the event, there were pencils stuck in the ceiling of the current capitol bldg where someone didn't want a bill to pass a vote, so they went into the chambers and threw all the pencils at the desks up to stick into the ceiling to prevent anyone from being able to check off their vote.
Similar thing with the bullet holes in the walls of the capitol bldg from the assassination of Huey :Long.
A whole lot of the more entertaining history of Louisiana revolves around the politics for sure.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:52 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
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What is your favorite historical fact
Shaquille O’Neill is considered by most to be the best center to play basketball for LSU in the modern era.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:52 am to beerJeep
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trout line
trotline
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:52 am to OysterPoBoy
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Shaquille O’Neill is considered by most to be the best center to play basketball for LSU in the modern era.
And the greatest Irish American basketball player of all time.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:54 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Hernando DeSota died in Ferriday.
The Indians thought he was a god. So to keep the Indians from killing them all if they found out differently, his expedition team hacked out a log to hide his body then floated it out of Lake Concordia to the Mississippi River.
The Indians thought he was a god. So to keep the Indians from killing them all if they found out differently, his expedition team hacked out a log to hide his body then floated it out of Lake Concordia to the Mississippi River.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:54 am to biglego
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Herman Johnson was the biggest baby born in Louisiana. A little known fact rarely mentioned when Johnson played.
That is an interesting tidbit that I don’t think I ever heard.
Similarly rarely advertised, LSU has a WBB coach who came from Baylor (Kim Mulkey). Despite a last name difference, she had a son (Kramer Robertson) play shortstop for the Tigers while she was coaching at Baylor.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:55 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Im old enough to remember the time when Bobby Boucher showed up at halftime and the Mud Dogs won the Bourbon Bowl.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:56 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
LSU originally started in Pineville. Would have made my 2.5 hr drive to campus only 45 mins if it was still there.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:57 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
The early colonists needed wives, so France recruited prostitutes to go over and marry them. This giving Louisiana a jump start on the trashiness index.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:57 am to Yournamegoeshere
quote:And Ulysses S. Grant was the LSU Chancellor.
LSU originally started in Pineville.
ETA: Busted. Ok. It was really the guy that invented the Sherman Tank that led LSU at the start
This post was edited on 3/21/24 at 8:49 am
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:58 am to Hopeful Doc
I live in TX now but grew up in Louisiana. I loved LA history in middle school.
Such a fascinating history like no other state.
Such a fascinating history like no other state.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:03 am to Hopeful Doc
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Similarly rarely advertised, LSU has a WBB coach who came from Baylor (Kim Mulkey). Despite a last name difference, she had a son (Kramer Robertson) play shortstop for the Tigers while she was coaching at Baylor.
Did you also know that Mason Taylor, current tightend for the Tigers is NFL Hall of Famer Jason Taylor’s son?
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:06 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Belizaire the Cajun
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IYKYK
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:07 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Kim Mulkey has a son who played LSU baseball.
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