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re: Shreveport has a lot of potential,
Posted on 9/29/22 at 5:48 pm to Socrates Johnson
Posted on 9/29/22 at 5:48 pm to Socrates Johnson
Man seriously 17 years ago things were actually awesome down town and on the boardwalk. There’s just not enough people to put money into what is a poorly run city.
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Posted on 9/29/22 at 5:53 pm to BabyTac
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I know this board likes to blame everything on ‘culture’ but that shouldn’t affect these things:
You are incredibly naive.
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However half the property is for lease or vacant, and the ones that aren’t have to be barely surviving.
Because "kultcha" started hanging out in that area and city leaders didn't do anything about it until people who actually spent money there decided to quit going.
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Infrastructure: I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a city that has failed to maintain infrastructure quite like Shreveport.
You've obviously never been through Jackson.
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That stretch if I-20 has to be one of the worst maintained roadways in the nation.
Still, you obviously haven't been through Jackson...
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Closed, empty buildings: in and around downtown there seems to be an unusual amount of empty buildings just rotting away. No maintenance or care.
Because city leaders sold those buildings for next to nothing and did nothing to stipulate that the buyers had to redevelope those properties. The Slattery Building was sold for a pittance and the owner quit work on it when he couldn't grift additional tax monies for historical preservation because the work he was doing was violating those very requirements.
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Is there a reason it appears politicians, city leaders, investors, etc do not appear to have dumped one dime into maintenance for the city in a couple of decades?
Yes, more "kultcha".
This post was edited on 9/29/22 at 5:54 pm
Posted on 9/29/22 at 5:54 pm to BabyTac
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Closed, empty buildings: in and around downtown there seems to be an unusual amount of empty buildings
Yeah, there needs to be a demand for something for people to want to do something with these buildings.
You can't just fix them up and then Shreveport will all of a sudden become nice.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 5:59 pm to La Place Mike
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On a side note the Bossier Strip at one time rivaled the Vegas Strip.
My dad and his friends drove from Austin to Bossier City in the 60s to see the strip. Still a lot of strip clubs there in the 80s.
Downtown Shreveport was awesome in the 80s for bars.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 6:33 pm to NoBoDawg
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Can anyone with some local musical history knowledge explain why the hayride in SHV went away.
I hear a group called “Louisiana Grandstand” is trying to get something like that started again.
Not sure if true but always heard that Shreveport politics is what held back the hayride from reaching it's potential. Some say Shreveport could have been like Nashville.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 7:32 pm to BabyTac
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Segregate the thuggery to their own communities and protect and grow the downtown districts
How are you going to do that with Leadbetter Heights so close to Downtown? Back in the eighties we used to go eat a Freeman and Harris at night all of the time. Not sure you would able to do that today.
Leadbetter Heights used to be called St Paul's Bottoms. It was Shreveport's Red Light District. St. Paul's Bottoms is where you went to get screwed in the brothels and stewed in the Opium Dens. A good book to read about Shreveport's shady past is "Annie McCune Shrevepot Madam" by Goodloe Stuck
Posted on 9/29/22 at 9:08 pm to BabyTac
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with lots of entertainment and potential, but for some reason the state or city is almost trying to force it to decline.
Dims
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I know this board likes to blame everything on ‘culture’
Dims
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Infrastructure: I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a city that has failed to maintain infrastructure quite like Shreveport.
Dims
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potholes in the middle of freeways
Dims
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Closed, empty buildings: in and around downtown there seems to be an unusual amount of empty buildings just rotting away. No maintenance or care. This also includes visuals such as the old minor league ballpark that still just sits there abandoned and decrepit.
Nobody wants to be around Dims
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Is there a reason it appears politicians, city leaders, investors, etc do not appear to have dumped one dime into maintenance for the city in a couple of decades?
Dims, $30 trillion in debt, $10 trillion since Covid, and what did the Dims spend that money on? Not the wellbeing of the taxpayer they stole it from
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The city is also in a great spot for I-20 to provide a central hub for a shipping hub.
Greater chance I-20 becomes the central hub of I-10 drive-by's than any shipping hub
Posted on 9/29/22 at 9:11 pm to TxWadingFool
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It has half a Loop, so there's that.
Fixed
Just enough to get around the ghetto
Posted on 9/29/22 at 9:12 pm to Neto
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Ur attitude is shite-tier
Louisiana doesn't create anything other than welfare, they don't create any jobs which is why the state is so fricking shitty from one end to the other
Posted on 9/29/22 at 9:33 pm to BabyTac
You would need Elvis to play the Hayride at the municipal auditorium, Bill Watts to book Ted Dibiase vs JYD at the Irish McNeil boys club, and Hamels to reopen their amusement park, all at the same time. It’s not happening.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 10:37 pm to charminultra
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and the current mayor is on extremely thin ice
That is so true.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 10:39 pm to BabyTac
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with a trolly to connect communities
Nooo, keep inner-city Shreveport out of Bossier please!
Posted on 9/29/22 at 10:44 pm to BabyTac
Back in the ‘70s, The Sports Page was the place to party.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 10:44 pm to Socrates Johnson
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Put it in May and call it "May-ride" and let actual musicians help pick bands
They used to have a Mayfest. Shrevesville has too many backasswards southern baptists who won't support anything normal people would consider desirable.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 10:46 pm to BabyTac
Everywhere has a lot of potential, but you’ll never reach it based on demographics.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 10:52 pm to charminultra
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the bars downtown consistently have shootings after midnight (thugs)
No they don't.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 10:57 pm to charminultra
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bars downtown consistently have shootings after midnight (thugs
This is bullshite. No need to invent shite to get a point across.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 11:03 pm to northLouisiana
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Not sure if true but always heard that Shreveport politics is what held back the hayride from reaching it's potential. Some say Shreveport could have been like Nashville.
There was a ‘mini-series’ on Shreveport several years back, called ‘Shape of Shreveport’ that highlighted some REALLY Interesting history points about Shreveport- here’s the episode about The 2 Kings (Elvis & Martin Luther). A lot of people don’t know that he created the framework for his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech here at Galilee Baptist church. It’s only 15 minutes, but it’s got a lot of information packed in it
Shape of Shreveport- 2 Kings
Sun Records wanted to build a studio here with the success of the Hayride, but they got too much push back, so they went to Memphis, TN.
Shreveport could have/should have been Houston, but the United Gas plane crash that killed 12 executives and Shreveport leaders I believe put an end to that, too.
United Gas Plane Crash
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Posted on 9/29/22 at 11:09 pm to yaboidarrell
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A growing economy, Google Fiber, no state income tax, and located in the foothills of Appalachia. Chattanooga and Shreveport aren't exactly comparable.
Before much of that, it was filthy, polluted, and dying southern rust belt city. It took shared ideals, master plans, and three decades of peaceful transitions of administrations to bear the fruit it does today.
Eta. Chattanooga is the case study, not a comparison.
This post was edited on 9/29/22 at 11:45 pm
Posted on 9/29/22 at 11:11 pm to BabyTac
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Shreveport has a lot of potential,
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