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re: Monroe Nostalgia Thread

Posted on 1/16/08 at 11:49 am to
Posted by LSUFanNTX
Seabrook, TX
Member since May 2005
9108 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 11:49 am to
58, you from Union Parish?
Posted by TigerGrl73
Nola
Member since Jan 2004
21357 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 11:51 am to
quote:

Know the house

good I'm not the only one who heard that
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
31779 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 11:55 am to
quote:

H.M. Poole


Wow, just Wow!
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
31779 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 12:01 pm to


quote:

you from Union Parish


Yes, graduated from FHS in 1977 and NLU in 1983.
My parents live in Ruston now. That's the closest I have been to Union Parrish in the last decade.
Posted by LSUFanNTX
Seabrook, TX
Member since May 2005
9108 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 12:04 pm to
Bernice '79, NLU '83 and '86 here.

How do you know HM?
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
31779 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 12:07 pm to
any of you guys spend any after the bars close hours eating cheese burgers and hash browns at The Vagabond Grill with the rest of the Monroe drunks?

Ever DSquare the place with a booth full of cops sitting there?

This post was edited on 1/16/08 at 3:50 pm
Posted by TigerDeacon
West Monroe, LA
Member since Sep 2003
29763 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 12:17 pm to
quote:

The catfish place I remember is the Catfish Cabin on Louisville. Is that place still around?


It's still there.


Here's a place some of you old timers may remember: The old ice cream/malt place down town (if I can spell it right) Sil-lillies (or something like that)

Silillies.
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
31779 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 12:18 pm to
I was a KA at NLU. He knew some of the guys and we would see him out at all of the bars.
I have lived in Dallas for the last 25 years and think I beleive I ran into him in a bar out here back in the early 80's.
Posted by TigerGrl73
Nola
Member since Jan 2004
21357 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 12:37 pm to
anyone remember Stark's?
Posted by LSUFanNTX
Seabrook, TX
Member since May 2005
9108 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 12:38 pm to
HM spent a few years in the geology department with me, but never quite made it thru. Remember his TV commercial that had him as "Future Dallas Cowboy punter"?
Posted by TBubba
Not sure
Member since Sep 2007
1183 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 2:11 pm to
Thunder Island
Somebody's
Daquiri Cafe
Boudreaux's at the driving range in lakeshore
Oakmont Apts(for the poorer crowd)
Saul Adler rec
that long scary driveway at the end of Shenendoah subdivision
Grandy's when it was clean and the old lady still brought rolls
Critter's Creek
Posted by TigerDeacon
West Monroe, LA
Member since Sep 2003
29763 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 2:14 pm to
And how in the hell can't this town support a Dairy Queen?!?
Posted by JMc
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
52 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 3:13 pm to
WEST MONROE CONEY ISLAND!
Posted by windriver
West Monroe/San Diego
Member since Mar 2006
8656 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 3:24 pm to
quote:

Joe Delany died at Lazarre Point not Critters Creek.
No he didn't he drowned in a small pond at Chenault Park.
Posted by windriver
West Monroe/San Diego
Member since Mar 2006
8656 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 3:29 pm to
quote:

Electric Circus

Trianon
Little Chicago
Posted by windriver
West Monroe/San Diego
Member since Mar 2006
8656 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 3:37 pm to
quote:

Swayback


Good Lord I had no idea there were so many LSU fans with fond memories of Fairbanks or Monroe.
Posted by Homesick Tiger
Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
55994 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 3:45 pm to
Frog Bottoms, cock fights in Archibald. Wasn't there a Pasqualli's Pizza on Louisville close to Sal's? Simmon's Bar on hiway 80, east of Monroe. Was always good for crap games after closing time. What was the name of the old woman's boarding house in West Monroe that a lot of people ate at on Sundays? Use to see Dave Woodman there all the time.
Posted by windriver
West Monroe/San Diego
Member since Mar 2006
8656 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 3:47 pm to
quote:

Rialto and Jims theaters

Don't forget the Paramount Theater on Desiard.
Best damn Movie Theater I've ever been to. I think the last Movie I saw there was either Bonnie & Clyde or The Green Berets. The powers that were (and still are) decided to tear it down, replace it with a parking lot and change all the streets to one way. Oh well, those were good times.
Posted by TigerGrl73
Nola
Member since Jan 2004
21357 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 3:50 pm to
quote:

Grandy's

my mother always ate biscuits and gravy from there...I wouldn't eat it though
Posted by TigerDeacon
West Monroe, LA
Member since Sep 2003
29763 posts
Posted on 1/16/08 at 3:53 pm to
quote:

change all the streets to one way. Oh well, those were good times.


They've made a lot of them two-ways again.
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