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re: What caused the area between downtown and LSU to become so ghetto?
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:19 pm to LSUBoo
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:19 pm to LSUBoo
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LSU's Baton Rouge campus pre-dates Huey P Long as governor.
It was empty cheap land at the time.
right ok, He was responsible for the stadium. It just boggles my mind that LSU is where it is, and immediately north its hood city and immediately north of that is downtown with lots of business, compounded with the fact that you have some really nice neighborhoods down highland and also to the north east of LSU.
What I would love to see is the area nuked and or razed to the ground and made valuable. That land is PRIME location for everything BUT what we have now.
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Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:19 pm to lepdagod
LSU's original Baton Rouge campus was roughly, the area downtown between the old Capitol building, the new Capitol building and the Pentagon Barracks. The "new" campus dates to the late twenties-early thirties.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:20 pm to Jim Rockford
Old South Baton Rouge which is on the east side of Highland North of LSU has been an African American community since the Union took Baton Rouge during the Civil War. Along Nicholson and River Road there were plantations.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:21 pm to Ihatethiscity
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Very closely related come tf on. So this area what everyone is saying, was always ghetto, and the ghetto spread north? That's what I'm trying to figure out.
Yes. It’s a low spot. Nobody wanted to live there. That’s why Magnoia Mound is on a mound.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:23 pm to Ihatethiscity
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What I would love to see is the area nuked and or razed to the ground and made valuable. That land is PRIME location for everything BUT what we have now.
You need to move
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:24 pm to Shaun176
had a couple of frat brothers live in a shitty apartment just about two blocks north of fraternity row, I think it was named Gunstock, we called it gunshot because every night you would hear gunshots, again, the 70s
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:28 pm to LSUBoo
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LSU's Baton Rouge campus pre-dates Huey P Long as governor.
The area north of campus was all black when LSU’s current campus was built. The old McKinley High School building is as old as the oldest buildings on campus.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:31 pm to Ihatethiscity
This thread makes me think about this, but think about the impact illegal drugs has had on this country.
Crack created an element that doesn't go away. A lot of bad areas got that way because of crack.
Different parts of cities became rivals because of crack.. and there were/are territory wars that were started over people protecting their area so that other people didn't sell in their area.
Then you get to the pain med addiction and what came from that. It evolved into the fentanyl problem. I feel like this is something that goes under the radar.
Crack created an element that doesn't go away. A lot of bad areas got that way because of crack.
Different parts of cities became rivals because of crack.. and there were/are territory wars that were started over people protecting their area so that other people didn't sell in their area.
Then you get to the pain med addiction and what came from that. It evolved into the fentanyl problem. I feel like this is something that goes under the radar.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:36 pm to thegambler
Title problems can make it pretty much impossible to borrow money to improve, maintain, or sell a property. Let a property or a neighborhood go through a couple generations without a proper succession and that’s the result.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:43 pm to Ihatethiscity
The residents.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:44 pm to Ihatethiscity
quote:no, north BR and old south BR are not in any way related. North BR is the way it is now because white people left. Old south BR has always been black, going back to the 19th century. White people have never lived there
Very closely related come tf on
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:49 pm to Shaun176
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Old South Baton Rouge which is on the east side of Highland North of LSU has been an African American community since the Union took Baton Rouge during the Civil War. Along Nicholson and River Road there were plantations.
This. When slavery ended, former slaves moved off the plantations onto the nearby undeveloped floodplain. It’s why “old South Baton Rouge” was/is called “the bottoms” by older folk.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:53 pm to Ihatethiscity
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ok, He was responsible for the stadium. It just boggles my mind that LSU is where it is, and immediately north its hood city and immediately north of that is downtown with lots of business, compounded with the fact that you have some really nice neighborhoods down highland and also to the north east of LSU. What I would love to see is the area nuked and or razed to the ground and made valuable. That land is PRIME location for everything BUT what we have now.
Thought the same thing when I was in and around there in the 90s.
It gotten a little better believe it or not but that disappears quickly after a few streets north. Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:54 pm to Ihatethiscity
It’s why Huey Long had a tunnel constructed from downtown to campus.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 8:58 pm to Jim Rockford
I rented a nice house on Nicolson for a few years. Had a row of large houses but they were all torn down.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 9:04 pm to Joshjrn
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It’s why “old South Baton Rouge” was/is called “the bottoms” by older folk.
Nice factoid.
I was unaware that’s how it got its name.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 9:08 pm to Eightballjacket
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It’s why Huey Long had a tunnel constructed from downtown to campus.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 9:08 pm to Ihatethiscity
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Originally, this area was the Magnolia Mound Plantation. It was sold and divided into small shotgun lots in the early 1900s, by design creating a low-income neighborhood. It was a thriving and self-sustained neighborhood during segregation in the 1950s. It was desegregation and the building of the I-10 highway that drove the area to near collapse in the 1960s. The title The Bottom references a name given to the community because it sits below a fault line and is prone to flooding, a name that refers to the poverty of the area, and a name that references it sitting in the shadows of the elevated highway.
PhMuseum - The Bottom (with images)
Posted on 3/24/26 at 9:09 pm to lepdagod
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I don’t know about ghetto… but that area Old South Baton Rouge has always been Black
I think if you go far enough back in time, you’ll see a different demographic there. Old South Baton Rouge was what Broadmoor, Shenandoah, Kenilworth is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy back in the day. The homes are rather decent for their era.
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