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Small pieces of your community that go away without much fanfare
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:21 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:21 pm
There was a local barber that retired recently. This person touched a number of lives and was well regarded by clients for many years. The barbershop was an important part of the routine of young and old people alike, but mainly the elderly. People would talk and meet in the waiting room regularly while waiting for a haircut.
If you weren't a client you wouldn't know the barber was gone and the informal fraternity of customers is now scattered to the wind.
If you weren't a client you wouldn't know the barber was gone and the informal fraternity of customers is now scattered to the wind.
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Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:22 pm to weagle99
good question colonel.
briarwood golf course is my answer.
ETA:stupid hospital only built on the back nine too
briarwood golf course is my answer.
ETA:stupid hospital only built on the back nine too
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 5:24 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:24 pm to weagle99
Different types of statues.
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 5:28 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:27 pm to weagle99
George's Grill, Shreveport, LA.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:28 pm to weagle99
A local hangout hole-in-the-wall burger joint that had good burgers, milkshakes, and an old-school PAC man arcade game was sold and the owner retired. Some out of towner bought it and tried to make it some crappy upscale coffee place. frick that. Nobody wants to hang out there.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:32 pm to weagle99
The Hammond Square Mall. RIP. 
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:33 pm to weagle99
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This person touched a number of lives and was well retarded
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:34 pm to Havoc
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The Hammond Square Mall. RIP.
Its gone? I opened my first business there when I was 19.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:48 pm to weagle99
For Me, its people...not necessarily places.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:55 pm to weagle99
Zee Zee's, once that was gone there was no reason to stay in BR....
Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:55 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Baton Rouge...barely recognize it anymore.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:02 pm to weagle99
Pancho's Super Buffet. Raising the flag always brought people closer to each other... and to morbid obesity
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:45 pm to weagle99
A&W drive-in in Plaquemine
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:55 pm to weagle99
Bowling alley for my town. I meet older people that will tell me they were in a bowling league with my great grandparents 40 years ago.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:56 pm to weagle99
Schaller's Pump in Chicago, a few blocks from Sox Park. Oldest bar in the city and the family finally closed it last month after 136 years.
It got a few blurbs in the local papers, but not much else. My dad used to take me there for some damn good burgers.
It got a few blurbs in the local papers, but not much else. My dad used to take me there for some damn good burgers.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:57 pm to weagle99
Frostop in Thibodaux.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 7:10 pm to weagle99
The last of the old guys who ran Ike's barbershop in Lafayette passed a couple of years ago. I had been getting my hair cut there my whole life. It was where my grandfather got his hair cut. They used to speak French, and there was always hot community coffee. It was one of the only places my dad would let me have a coke (root beer).
Posted on 5/24/17 at 7:27 pm to weagle99
This might have been 15 years ago, but there was a grocery store in town that had been open for a long time.. Maybe since the 50s or early 60s and everyone knew the owner, he was a parish councilman... Half the town worked there at some point in their life.
People who shopped there on a regular basis, when they would become old enough where it was not as easy for them to get out and grocery shop, they would just call them, tell the person the list of items they need and they would deliver it to them.
It was just a corner grocery store. Other than the bag boys and a few people in the back, who were always younger guys (high school or college kids) everyone else had worked that forever. Everyone pretty much had a certain time they would shop. My mom would do grocery shopping every Thursday morning at 8:30AM. So pretty much everyone shopping at that time were people who shopped at that time every week, so everyone knew everyone.. If you wanted to know what was going on, you would go there or the barber shop, but when it closed.. as big of a part of the community as it was, when it closed... people went on as if it never existed. It was interesting because all of a sudden everyone just started shopping at one of the two other grocery stores in the area..
But its one of those places that when you pass by, its like "damn, I remember...."
People who shopped there on a regular basis, when they would become old enough where it was not as easy for them to get out and grocery shop, they would just call them, tell the person the list of items they need and they would deliver it to them.
It was just a corner grocery store. Other than the bag boys and a few people in the back, who were always younger guys (high school or college kids) everyone else had worked that forever. Everyone pretty much had a certain time they would shop. My mom would do grocery shopping every Thursday morning at 8:30AM. So pretty much everyone shopping at that time were people who shopped at that time every week, so everyone knew everyone.. If you wanted to know what was going on, you would go there or the barber shop, but when it closed.. as big of a part of the community as it was, when it closed... people went on as if it never existed. It was interesting because all of a sudden everyone just started shopping at one of the two other grocery stores in the area..
But its one of those places that when you pass by, its like "damn, I remember...."
Posted on 5/24/17 at 7:36 pm to weagle99
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