re: Pictures from days gone by....

A warm Spring day in the park

Redford, Michigan 1949



This theater had closed by 1963

LSU Geology Camp, Colorado Springs, CO
Summer 1954



Front Row: Harry Lee, Jim Cleaveland, Lod Cook, Curt Fletcher, "Sweets" Pendleton, Dan McGuire, Julia Etta, Ray Stephens

Second Row: Marge and Chris Cheetam, Ed Keller, Pat Delaney, Tom Stevenson, Larry Bell, Warren St. Pierre, Lye Kiser, Bill Coussins, Ike Smith

Third Row: Mr. C.O. Durham, H.D. Carlton, Jim Wallace, Frank Husband, Urban Allen, J. Bourgeois, Dick Kiethley, Dick Prescott, Tony "bo" Duval, "Pard" Castleman

Fourth Row: Allan Cheetam, "Diz" Diaz, Larry Ostendorf, Bob Tullis, Bob Lowe, Bob "One-Gun" Raines, Cliff Naylor, Burt Kemp

Mascot front and center: "MacDougal"

Lod Cook (holding onto "MacDougal" in the front row) may be a name familiar to some of the LSU alumni here who keep up with things. He was a prominent donor to LSU for many decades and the LSU Alumni Center is named for him.

It is all metal except solid rubber tires.
What make and model does it represent?

The Ingenues, a vaudeville all female jazz band, 1925 to 1937

WW2 Close Call

1961, the opening of Come September in New Orleans. I suspect it was a chick flick.

The bus stops here.

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The bus stops here

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Many bus stations were built during the Art Deco movement.

Jackson MS had two built during the late 1930s:



I believe the Trailways building was demolished.



The Greyhound station actually has a Wikipedia page. You can guess why:

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The Greyhound Bus Station at 219 N. Lamar St., Jackson, Mississippi, was the site of many arrests during the May 1961 Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights Movement. The Art Deco building has been preserved and currently functions as an architect's office.

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