re: Pictures from days gone by....

Pennsylvania Shipyard, Shift change, Beaumont, TX,1943.

I've always wondered if my grandfather is in the crowd since he was working there at that time.

City Park Lake 1929

That looks like a family picture of a mentally handicap family. I hate to say it but that is one ugly family. I hope that they never reproduced. Something is definitely wrong with the woman and those kids.

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used to love watching the Buckskin Bill show - I can't find any episodes on Youtube unfortunately.

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I had Bill for a couple of broadcast classes at LSU in the early 80s. Nice guy. He made the classes even more fun than I expected.

Main Street looking south from Bellevue street in downtown Opelousas during the 1890s.



Ad in the New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer., October 05, 1912. A part of Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (1777-1963) which is searchable.



Kids pull a float in a parade during the Rice Festival in Crowley, 1938.



Grand Opening of Abdalla's. Probably 1926 but I can't find this photo in newspapers. Abdalla's expanded many times. "George and Jasmine Abdalla left New Orleans in 1895 and settled in St. Landry Parish. It was in Washington where he started his business as a 'cart peddler' traveling the area selling clothing and other merchandise." Source: Daily World / Photo credit: Facebook post



Manchac lighthouse in 1918.



The Solomon Wise Building in Abbeville. The building was completed in 1894, and the photo was taken in 1900.



A train leaves the Abita Springs station in 1912.



South Trenton Street in Ruston, 1890s.



City hall and Milan Cafe in Shreveport, 1916.



A train crossing the Bogue Falaya in 1907.



Parkerson Avenue in Crowley, 1913.



A market in Morgan City, taken sometime between 1890-1915.



A streetcar in Mandeville in 1910.



Opelousas on Christmas Eve in 1900.



Tchefuncte River Light house in Madisonville, 1918.



Ryan Street in Lake Charles in 1903.






People gathering in Lake Charles in 1902 to vote.



A train cruising through downtown Covington in 1907.

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Kids pull a float in a parade during the Rice Festival in Crowley, 1938.

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You can see more photos from that 1938 festival here:

Who knew rice could be so fun?

The reason that year's festival is so well documented is a Farm Security Administration photographer showed up.

Classic line from that site:

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The streets of the tiny town (population 9,262)

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Only a yankee would call a town w/9200 people tiny. Down here it's a metropolis











Rice eating contest:



Some great pics aren't on that page. I posted this on the music board awhile back:



This is from the Cajun band contest:

Thanks KAFKA. Beautiful photos and great quality for 1938.
I'm amazed to see how far we've come in 82 years. Seeing how people dressed and buildings surrounding the festival, is very entertaining. I'm sure that probably by now the youngest kid of that crowd passed away.

"I am a lineman for the counteeeeeeee..."

Pratt Kansas, 1911

That is one fine woman...