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Posted on 11/12/25 at 3:49 pm to Mister Completely
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There was nothing on Bluebonnet except Swaggart's and an Exxon. Siegen was a 2 lane road out in the country. I remember when they moved OLOL from downtown to Essen...and there was hardly anything on Essen besides channel 33.
I remember when College Drive was two lanes and was a huge open field (with maybe one building) from Perkins to where Fairway View Apartments are.
That one building was a radio station (I think it was WXOK) with a Quonset Hut and an antenna.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 3:55 pm to Topwater Trout
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Kenilworth shopping center had Winn Dixie, K&B and TG&Y.
We would ride our bikes there, grab a magazine from K&B, smoke cigarettes along the side of the building then ride up to the Circle K around the corner to play arcade games. Can still remember the smell of trash and itallian food from the alley behind Giovannis.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 4:06 pm to ThuperThumpin
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We would ride our bikes there, grab a magazine from K&B, smoke cigarettes along the side of the building then ride up to the Circle K around the corner to play arcade games. Can still remember the smell of trash and itallian food from the alley behind Giovannis.
dang we might know each other
Posted on 11/12/25 at 4:09 pm to PeteRose
The good old dive bars. RIP
Chris’s bar North Street
Happy Note
South Downs
Gator Bar
And a few more I’m probably forgetting.
Chris’s bar North Street
Happy Note
South Downs
Gator Bar
And a few more I’m probably forgetting.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 4:14 pm to Topwater Trout
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dang we might know each other
TG&Y would've been there before I was biking there but I remembered it as little kid. Winn Dixie I think was Super Fresh and A&P before. Milano's pizza was also there for a while . We started biking there around 1989-1990 from Mag Woods.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 4:19 pm to PeteRose
I also remember in the Drusilla shopping center there was a Fast Track nearby. Also by the shopping center was a place called Johnny's Pizza which was pretty good from what I can remember.
In the 90's there was a couple of pizza places that were pretty good...I think they were called Pepporoni's or something. They had these cinnamon glazed desert sticks that were awesome.
In the 90's there was a couple of pizza places that were pretty good...I think they were called Pepporoni's or something. They had these cinnamon glazed desert sticks that were awesome.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 4:20 pm to dewster
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Chelsea’s being at the north gates. Awesome place then.
North Gate was so much fun back then. Murphys, Chelsea's, the Varsity, all the little dive bars along Chimes...bunch of different places that catered to different crowds..
Posted on 11/12/25 at 4:21 pm to liz18lsu
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There was a strip club on Tom Dr. in between Wooddale and Airline.
This post was edited on 11/12/25 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 11/12/25 at 4:24 pm to TheFonz
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I think they were called Pepporoni's or something.
Yea it was Peperoni's local chain .... it was cheap as hell..like 3.99 for a large or a buffet.....remember one was on Staring ....
This post was edited on 11/12/25 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 11/12/25 at 4:26 pm to lsutigersFTW
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There was a crack house on the corner of E. Boyd and Burbank where Sonic is now
Thought that was just regular cheap college housing. Had one hell of a party there at a friends house after the landlord gave them eviction notices and said that they were demoing the places.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 4:42 pm to PeteRose
Louie’s used to be open all night. The best breakfast food at 2am.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 4:57 pm to C-Bear
No more Rip’s Huddle downtown, good times.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 5:38 pm to Cosmo
I still vividly remember the sound and smell of walking out Tiger Stadium in 2002 after beating Arkansas.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 6:46 pm to dewster
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The opening band for Cowboy Mouth that night wasn’t bad. It was none other than Maroon 5, who was largely unknown at the time.
I was there also. The varsity used to snag some excellent acts, many of them nationally known who would book a weekday gig between larger venues on the weekends. I miss those days.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 6:58 pm to purpleblackandgold
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The music scene was really great around 95-2005. Lots of live music around campus bars.
In the 70s, 80s, and early 90s, every major band on a major tour would make a stop at the PMAC. If you go back and look at the LSU Gumbo yearbooks, they would usually have a section on the bands/acts that actually came to campus. During that period, I doubt you could name a major act that didn’t come to the PMAC.
And if you wanted good tickets, you had to camp out on the ramps.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:02 pm to PeteRose
You have to go to Port Allen to get booze on Sunday morning.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:03 pm to ThatTahoeOverThere
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I still vividly remember the sound and smell of walking out Tiger Stadium in 2002 after beating Arkansas.
no you don’t because the 2002 game was in Little Rock
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:07 pm to PeteRose
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The Jack in the Box on the north gate of LSU used to be a Popeyes. And every know and then they ran a special of 20 wings for $5.
This is not an interesting story, but it might have been right when that jack and the box opened.. This was at least 20 years ago, but I remember the 1 and only time I went to that Jack in the box, it was me and someone else and we ate in there and there was this little black kid.. 3, 4 years old who just came sit at our table just looking at us. The person with me went to the counter to tell them there was a kid at our table who wasn't saying anything.
The mother of the kid, who worked at Jack in the Box said "oh thats my son. He okay".
We hurried up and ate and left and the kid stayed there the whole time. I remember being kind of pissed about it. I understand if she didn't have anyone to watch him, but I don't want random kids coming to my table while I am eating. I am not a huge fan of Jack in the Box as it is, but I sure as hell wasn't going back to that one.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:07 pm to PeteRose
You can get a glorious free meal at TJ Ribs if you act interested in becoming a Primerica executive manager/slave.
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