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re: Random things about Baton Rouge 20+ years ago that younger people might not know.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:04 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:04 am to VolsOut4Harambe
The old Cotton Club on Highland used to let you run a tab and pay it at the end of the week. If they really knew you, the end of the month!
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Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:04 am to PeteRose
I do not remember a popeyes there. I do remember a taco bell which was a good place to be robbed in the drive thru farther north on the west side of highland.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:05 am to TheFonz
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There used to be a Rax on Essen, and Sicily's Pizza on Bluebonnet. The Matherne's on Bluebonnet used to be Delchamps, and the CVS there used to be a K&B. Once upon a time, there was a TG&Y and a Hopper's in the Drusilla shopping center.
Kenilworth shopping center had Winn Dixie, K&B and TG&Y. There was also a Ms Winners on essen...great fried chicken and biscuits were way better than Popeye's.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:09 am to mametoo
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There was a ”street gang” that hung around the North Gates called 3 Blind Mice.
Gutter punk trash. One of my buddies got jumped by them once, cracked a board over his head requiring a lot of stitches.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:13 am to PeteRose
In 80s and early 90s Sherwood Forrest was a high-end neighborhood and St Thomas More rivaled St Aloysius in size and athletic/academic superiority. St George was small and without a lot of money, with the football team wearing old mesh practice jerseys as game uniforms.
Tiny Town was a preschool on Florida Blvd where little white Sherwood Forest kids went (if their mom worked), and where Ms. Bee, a big black woman, would beat your arse but treat you like her child and respect was given by all.
Everything was perfect in the fraternity world until a 21-ish year-old, drug-addict SAE "pledge" killed himself on bid night and Murphy's Bar and the Greek system got blamed.
Tiny Town was a preschool on Florida Blvd where little white Sherwood Forest kids went (if their mom worked), and where Ms. Bee, a big black woman, would beat your arse but treat you like her child and respect was given by all.
Everything was perfect in the fraternity world until a 21-ish year-old, drug-addict SAE "pledge" killed himself on bid night and Murphy's Bar and the Greek system got blamed.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:24 am to Red Drum
Independence Park where the Dept of Public Safety, State Police Headquarters. Tennis Facility and Water Park is currently located was originally the Baton Rouge Downtown Airport.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:25 am to Topwater Trout
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Ms Winners on essen
Good Lord. There's a place I haven't thought of in a long, long time.
IIRC they were near a Po Folks?
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:27 am to TheFonz
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IIRC they were near a Po Folks?
I don't remember a po folks...they were located where the Indian food place is between Wendy's and channel 33
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:29 am to 777Tiger
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when I was living in Nola, circa when the world's Fair was about to open it's doors, Nola was rated the best tasting tap water in the country
i remember that bullshite article as wellPosted on 11/12/25 at 11:31 am to CAD703X
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i remember that bullshite article as well
my first thought was, it’s not supposed to have a taste, is it?
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:32 am to Dunder Mifflin
quote:it was even better when it was in the 80s
80’s Night at the Varsity in the mid 90’s was fun.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:34 am to delta_zulu
quote:hell i have reveilles from the 80s advertising free keggers by LSU for incoming freshmen.
I could by booze when I turned 18 (legally)
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:34 am to Topwater Trout
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I don't remember a po folks
Eh. Probably remembering wrong.
I do remember buying a Commodore 64 computer from New Generation circa 1985. I think there were three or four of those stores in and around Baton Rouge.
For a kid or teenager in the 80's and 90's Baton Rouge wasn't a bad place to be. You could go to Don Carter's, Fun Fair Park, Blue Bayou, Putt Putt Golf, Skate City, Cortana Mall, and Celebration Station and not have to worry about culcha.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:37 am to TheFonz
Smitty selling bouquets of cut aluminum cans near the North gates.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:39 am to C-Bear
quote:i had a great night there as a young naive freshman
The old Cotton Club on Highland used to let you run a tab and pay it at the end of the week.
i lived off GSRI in the late 80s in a townhouse beside jose vargas. aside from the cars getting broken into every single night
i had so many fond memories of jose. this was after he 'graduated' and was playing european basketball part of the year; he was a GOOD GUIY. he looked scary as hell but he had a heart of gold and even after what the hood rats did to his car and his townhouse, he would still come over and get me to help him set up ad hoc baseball games in the field next to our townhouses for the kids. 
just a great guy. i hope he's doing well.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:47 am to TheFonz
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Sicily's Pizza on Bluebonnet.
maybe its kid nostalgia but loved their pizza
also the first Deangelo's further down BB was great
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:52 am to BilJ
enjoyed walking from kirby smith to gattis and eating the $4 buffet where the little meat turds would roll off your slice.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:53 am to 777Tiger
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north of campus was always ghetto, for whatever reason the ghetto inhabitants would more or less stay in their lane when I was there
Way back in the day, the neighborhood along the Nicholson corridor north of campus housed a lot of faculty and staff of LSU.
My father-in-law lived next door to Paul Dietzel on Aster Street!
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:57 am to PeteRose
Sammy's on Highland had the best waitresses.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:04 pm to Mister Completely
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TA's Drinkin with Lincoln.
TA’s was a glorious, short-lived, watering hole for college kids.
I don’t remember Drinkin with Lincoln there, but I still have my huge-arse TA’s beer mug which you could get filled for a dollar.
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