re: Pictures from days gone by....

>Phenix City was sin city in those days. Patton threatened to take his tanks across the bridge and level the town. It was known for organized crime, gambling, and prostitution. An Alabama Attorney General was elected promising to clean up the town, but was shot down in cold blood on main street in 1954.

Subject of one of tGOAT B-movies, The Phenix City Story (1955), filmed on location by director Phil Karlson.

In June 1944, the Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history.

LSU Memorial Tower, 1958.
That little Ford Thunderbird at the bottom right is Dad's. It's still in the family to this day, sitting idly in my garage. Might need to take it out for a drive soon.



Baton Rouge and the Mississippi River, looking southward. Long before the I-10 bridge was built across the river. (1958)



The famous pool at the Huey P. Long Field House in all its glory! (It looks a lot better and more inviting than the grass courtyard that replaced it recently.)



And finally, Dad's mentor, Professor Murray Hawkins, who would be appointed chairman to the Department of Petroleum Engineering in 1964 and hold that post until his retirement in 1977.

Seemed like there was one on every corner in Midcity.

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Seemed like there’s was one on every corner in Midcity.

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I grew up in the Lower 9th Ward and there were tons of corner storefronts that I can remember and not all of them were grocery stores. One of my favorite was a family owned hardware store in the 5600 block of Burgundy run by the Lopez(sp?) family. It was 2 brothers and a sister who ran it. The sister was a retired teacher, George was one of the brothers and the other was named Peter----who was quite slow mentally and played the role of "Step & Fetch It" getting things out the back storage area.

I can recall a few corner bars----Chink's, Cusimano's and C.J's were easy walking distance from my house.

Jerry's Corner Store was 1/2 block away on Dauphine and Flood, another was in the 6000 block of Burgundy, a 3rd was on the corner of St. Maurice and Charters and a friends grandma ran a sweet shop/game room that had pinball machines on Dauphine and Deslonde near Holy Cross.

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1948 Chevrolet Sport Coupe Deluxe

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That is a beautiful car.

This is a ski resort now, know as Telluride.

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North Tinian airfield

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My dad was stationed on Tinian and Guam. He grew up in N.O. and wished for the cool summers of home. He said the sun was ridiculously intense. The AF gave briefings to newly arriving crews!