re: Old Map of Lafayette

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Bendel is the OG upper middle class neighborhood.

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Ivanhoe is on there too

Upon further research, parts of the map aren’t geographically correct, probably b/c the map is not true to scale. Hwy 339 is Verot School Rd. as Lozes Rd , Fabiola , Chastant are not right off Hwy 90. They’re in between Tolson and S. Beadle by Fat Pats.

Interesting that Robinhood off EB Pkwy, was once a single street and is now a circle. Some of the undeveloped areas east and south of the river was rural farm land owned by members of the Dugas family (currently River Ranch), T’Frere’s House and Plantation, and Hamilton’s Club.

The Dugas property consisted of 256 acres and was purchased for $35,000 in 1952.

Interesting is that Ambassador Caffery, then known as New Flanders Road, near Robley (Lowes and Home Depot)was loosely called "the road to nowhere." They never anticipated how wrong they would become, as Amb Caff Parkway is the biggest moving parking lot in all of LA, recently eclipsed by I-10 in BR.

Must be old pre 1960s because Reds would probably be labeled.