re: Places around BR that you think you remember

Posted by jmcs68

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 1:07 pm to meauxjeaux2

Paparazzi's

Posted by Pectus

Internet

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 1:32 pm to meauxjeaux2

That's why it's so spread out!

Posted by Modern

Fiddy Men

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 1:34 pm to meauxjeaux2

The skating rink way down Florida right before you cross into LP.

I think it is/was a mattress place now.

Posted by kingbob

Sorrento, LA

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 1:38 pm to Kingpenm3

There's a little model train shop on Government now across from Baton Rouge High

Posted by meauxjeaux2

watson

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 1:42 pm to Chappy

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worked at Goony Golf on Florida, home of the big orange dinosaur

it had miniature golf, go-carts and a water slide

it was on Florida east of Flannery

Posted by lsudude24

Boulder, CO

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:19 pm to Wolfhound45

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ETA: Skate City on Florida Boulevard

I remember going to Leo's Roller Rink behind Cortana mall. They had an ice skating rink back there too.

Also going bowling at Circle Bowl when they had their all you can bowl special from midnight to 4am on Fri and Sat nights. Good times.

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Posted by NWarty

Somewhere in the PNW

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:25 pm to lsudude24

Things from my childhood like Catfish Town, FunFair, and oh hell, what was the Gas Station that had the jet fighter plane on the roof? I think it was off Sherwood

Posted by meauxjeaux2

watson

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:27 pm to NWarty

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Gas Station that had the jet fighter plane on the roof? I think it was off Sherwood

it was on South Foster kinda by Fleur Du Le's

Posted by lsudude24

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:27 pm to meauxjeaux2

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i thought it was off Government behind the Rebel shopping center? Or was it off Airline?

hold on,i have some old pics

Wasn't there a drive in theater by the EKL hospital? Rebel Drive In if I remember correctly?

Posted by meauxjeaux2

watson

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:27 pm to lsudude24

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Wasn't there a drive in theater by the EKL hospital? Rebel Drive In if I remember correctly?

posted pic of it already.

Posted by meauxjeaux2

watson

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:31 pm to meauxjeaux2

Thunderbird Beach

South Winds waterslide in DS.

Posted by Chappy

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:54 pm to meauxjeaux2

quote:
worked at Goony Golf on Florida, home of the big orange dinosaur

it had miniature golf, go-carts and a water slide

it was on Florida east of Flannery

that was two awesome summers in High School

one of the other employee's lived in Belaire
we hung out at their house and watched the 84 olympics and got drunk

made out with a girl at the water slide during a lock-in, she was on the dance team at Belaire, wish I could remember her name

Posted by Y.A. Tittle

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:57 pm to lsudude24

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ETA: Skate City on Florida Boulevard

I remember going to Leo's Roller Rink behind Cortana mall. They had an ice skating rink back there too.

I remember the old Leo's in the hood on North Street. Must have closed around the late 70s and back then they would still give you skates that had to have been in use since the 50s. It was badass with the old hardwood roller rink, though.

Posted by Sev09

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 3:47 pm to meauxjeaux2

Good ol' Schwegmann's...

Posted by DocHolliday1964

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 4:08 pm to Lakeboy7

[/quote]Mike Anderson's when it was in an old house right off campus.

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Not a house. It was the old collegetown grocery. I remember the grocery store when it was open. Mike bought it and opened his MA's college town seafood.

Posted by TigerTaco

Baton Rouge

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 6:55 pm to meauxjeaux2

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Didn't Baton Rouge have a Western Sizzlin?

Pretty sure it was at the current location of El Rancho on Florida near Sherwood. May have been a Bonanza before Western Sizzlin'. Took my home coming date freshman year of high school to Steak and Ale which was on the corner of Florida and Airline where the Asian strip mall is now.

Posted by Lakeboy7

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 7:02 pm to DocHolliday1964

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It was the old collegetown grocery.

You are right and it was not uncommon for plaster from the ceiling to join you at your table!

Posted by silver and cold

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Posted on 12/18/14 at 7:27 pm to meauxjeaux2

I could've sworn there was a go-kart track on Florida Blvd as well as an RC car track.

Also remember

Bamboo House
Milano Pizza
Pepperoni's Pizza
Club Nouveau
Sugar's
2010
The Metro
Cajuns Fried Chicken Buffet
Mama Brava
Babbages
Sports Unlimited
Black-Eyed Pea
Kivas
La Pedigo's
Crimson Dragon
Tony's Tavern
Burger Tyme
Chalet Brandt
Roma Deli
The Tiger
Snorkel's
Sports Illustrated

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