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re: What was growing up in Lafayette like?
Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:45 pm to supatigah
Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:45 pm to supatigah
But those services are depended upon the wealth that the oil & gas industries supply. They can withstand a few slow years until things pick up again, but it has been slow down there for going on 5 years. The real estate market is already feeling it with tons of foreclosures. If the oil jobs/money spigot isn't turned back on in the next 5 years, we'll start seeing that translate into layoffs and business closures in the service side. Hiring is already WAY down, especially in the legal market and engineering. The brain drain is occurring because there are no jobs for those graduates to work there. Diversifying the economy has been good for Lafayette as it gives them the ability to wait out busts in the oil market and withstand them to a point, but eventually, without that oil money coming in, Lafayette's economy withers and sinks like coastal wetlands deprived of sediment for 80 years.
Thankfully, the price of gas seems to be going up, so some of those oil service companies may be able to start gearing up again and inject more energy back into the hurting economy. Someone has to buy those foreclosed homes and fill all that empty retail space.
Thankfully, the price of gas seems to be going up, so some of those oil service companies may be able to start gearing up again and inject more energy back into the hurting economy. Someone has to buy those foreclosed homes and fill all that empty retail space.
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Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:46 pm to litenin
Laffeyett went to shite in the 80’s do to forced integration in schools. Kids were bussed all over the city regardless of where you lived. Bake sales and other family fundraising for schools became a joke. All of the public schools are shite and rundown now.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:48 pm to YOURADHERE
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One of the shoe stores in the mall had a mechanical puppet, it was a monkey(I think) that would pull himself up then flip over the bar. It was creepy and memorizing for children like me, I'd stand there every trip to the mall and watch it.
It was a clown or a mime or something like that.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:51 pm to CptRusty
now I remember that thing!! And browsing through Spencer's looking at all the adult stuff thinking I was cool
Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:52 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Its where all the rich kids went. I went to LHS.
Mighty Lions in the house
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:03 pm to redstick13
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Was that the name for the building when it was a country bar?
Seems like there was another club or at least another name used around that time. Not Kingfish or Outer Limits. Did Outer Limits ever have another name as an afterhours club? Another part of my brain keeps thinking it might have been north of Lafayette.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:04 pm to Cool Brigade
Kart Ranch >>>
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:05 pm to G Vice
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would add that the all girls school, Sacred Heart at Grand Coteau, is a big bonus for this area
until you marry a girl from there and have to hear how paying $12K for kindergarten is totally worth it.
This post was edited on 1/30/18 at 1:06 pm
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:06 pm to Cool Brigade
I'm waiting for the "I'm about to end it all" thread from this alter
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:07 pm to Mac
What about Discovery Zone where Shoe Carnival is now? They used to take us there for summer camp field trips about once a week, I had a neighbor that worked there that would hook me up with free tokens all the time.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:09 pm to Sparkplug#1
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Laffeyett went to shite in the 80’s do to forced integration in schools. Kids were bussed all over the city regardless of where you lived. Bake sales and other family fundraising for schools became a joke.
This not true at all. You're thinking of Baton Rouge.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:10 pm to Cool Brigade
People were generally friendlier here. I grew up in Laffy and went to LSU. I liked LSU but really hated B.R. I also attended USL grad school. USL was not on par with LSU but again people were much friendlier and down to earth here. I was shocked that everyone didn't wear Sunday's best to school, it was shorts, tshirts, and baseball hats. As much as Laffy gets ripped for the 'Tobys n Tanyas', B.R. had their share of them coming in from L.P.. A.P.. W.B.R.. etc..., I couldn't imagine living in B.R. now after Katrina with the traffic. Laffy is fine with me.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:10 pm to Boudreaux35
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Seems like there was another club or at least another name used around that time. Not Kingfish or Outer Limits. Did Outer Limits ever have another name as an afterhours club? Another part of my brain keeps thinking it might have been north of Lafayette.
I always knew it only by Outer Limits. We always showed up at 2AM when all the cowboys were stumbling out the building so I can't remember if it had another name or not. The only other place besides the Fish and Outer Limits that I knew of was a place on the strip (can't remember the name). I went to that place once with a friend while on liquid LSD. We ended up getting invited to an all night house party close the the campus. Good times.
ETA - I think the place on the strip was Makos.
This post was edited on 1/30/18 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:14 pm to litenin
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Global Golf
Was that the one on Johnston that the batting cages didn't have a top? I lived there in college, you could hit home runs into the field and a buddy of mine worked there and gave me all the tokens I wanted.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:15 pm to YOURADHERE
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What about Discovery Zone where Shoe Carnival is now?
That was the shite too. And the laser tag place by Cajun Sno.
Also, Cajun Sno >>>>>>>>
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:17 pm to Cool Brigade
We didn't hafta wear shoes to school til high school
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:20 pm to Mac
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And the laser tag place by Cajun Sno.
Was this by Veron's in that shopping center on Johnston in the late 90s? I tried to get job there my senior year of high school but my mom made me cancel the interview to go take senior pictures.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:21 pm to Cool Brigade
live here now. like it for raising family. very much the simple life, but with a good community for fun stuff to do.
it's a lot smaller than people think. the money from oil gave us this feeling of being big, but it's really not.
it's a lot smaller than people think. the money from oil gave us this feeling of being big, but it's really not.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:26 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Laffeyett went to shite in the 80’s do to forced integration in schools. Kids were bussed all over the city regardless of where you lived. Bake sales and other family fundraising for schools became a joke.
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This not true at all. You're thinking of Baton Rouge.
No he's correct, that was the beginning of the end for the public schools here, and yes they are all shite now. You went to LHS as a gifted student, great program and totally segregated from the rest of the trash. There are so many private schools now almost everyone w/ means send their kids to one. Other than the gifted and immersion programs the Laf Parish School system is a joke.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 1:31 pm to 91TIGER
I went to Broadmoor Elementary in the 80s and it was a great school back then. Paul Breaux Middle was mostly black and in the ghetto but had gifted and plenty of upper middle class to rich white students. LHS was 75-80% white when I was there. I was zoned for Edgar Martin Middle, which was also mostly white. The blacks mostly went to NP Moss and Northside High.
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