re: North baton rouge

It is Monte Sano. Don't know how it got it's name, but the canal that runs between Exxon and the old Copolymer plant is called Monte Sano Bayou.

1960's and 1970's were the prime time of NBR.
I lived near Monte Santo Park off Longfellow Drive.
Brec had a pre K program which I attended at the Monte Santo Park Gymn.

My sister and I walked to Hollywood Elementary.
They even let her talk about one of the Jewish Holliday's on I think it was NBC's thought for the day. She was not even jewish she just had black hair.
No pics she died a few years ago.

I saw my first movie at the Robert E Lee theater.
First Drive in show at the Rebel shopping Center now BRCC.

NBR was really a normal working class area of town.

Then when the first African American Family moved across the street from us around 1977/1978 the homes went up for sale. I think my parents were the first ones to sale and we moved out of the area. The husband always came home drunk and a few times thought our house was his. My father, my brother who was older, and I beat the man a few times after he kicked in our door. The last straw was my father was working nights and the man kicked our door in. My mother got the shotgun out and shot him.
She was a paper pusher or glorified secretary with the Los Angeles Police Dept before she married my father. She could handle a weapon.

Just like the 1980's Florida Blvd was happening from Airline Hwy to Flannery Road.
You had a Bon Marche Mall, Cortana Mall, New Generation, car dealers moving from NBR to Florida Blvd East.
Belaire High was just being built along with the apartments and duplexes around Belaire. The area was a nice area.
The working middle class lived on the North side of Florida Blvd while the Doctors along with the professionals lived in Sherwood, Tara, or Broadmoore.