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re: Who here grow up in BR in the 80s/90s?
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:48 am to Cool Brigade
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:48 am to Cool Brigade
70's/80's guy here. Left in 86.
Things I remember:
Hoppers on Florida and one on Plank
Drive inn theatre. Showtown mainly
Robert E Lee theatre and I lived at the Broadmoor as a kid...when they played first run movies
the old two screen Bon Marche
The Goony Golf on Florida
Skateboard Park on Florida both near Flannery
The devil worshippers on Harrells Ferry Rd, near a horse stable
My brother's horse getting loose from our backyard and running free on Sherwood Forest Blvd.
Sherwood Forest being one lane each way to Choctow, where it was closed and only industrious kids like myself could ahem break into the area
K&B on the corner and riding bikes there everyday in the summer.
Bike riding all over Baton Rouge.
Neighborhood schools. I could walk/bike to all of my public school education K through 12
Top of the tower.
Wilson's
New Generation
The Caterie
Rax and Danver's Roast Beef
Kornmeyer's Furniture
Woolco's
D. H. Holmes and Goudchaux's
Sharp Lane summer baseball
Orange Julius and Montgomery Ward
Yeah Baton Rouge was just a different city and a different time then.
Things I remember:
Hoppers on Florida and one on Plank
Drive inn theatre. Showtown mainly
Robert E Lee theatre and I lived at the Broadmoor as a kid...when they played first run movies
the old two screen Bon Marche
The Goony Golf on Florida
Skateboard Park on Florida both near Flannery
The devil worshippers on Harrells Ferry Rd, near a horse stable
My brother's horse getting loose from our backyard and running free on Sherwood Forest Blvd.
Sherwood Forest being one lane each way to Choctow, where it was closed and only industrious kids like myself could ahem break into the area
K&B on the corner and riding bikes there everyday in the summer.
Bike riding all over Baton Rouge.
Neighborhood schools. I could walk/bike to all of my public school education K through 12
Top of the tower.
Wilson's
New Generation
The Caterie
Rax and Danver's Roast Beef
Kornmeyer's Furniture
Woolco's
D. H. Holmes and Goudchaux's
Sharp Lane summer baseball
Orange Julius and Montgomery Ward
Yeah Baton Rouge was just a different city and a different time then.
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Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:48 am to Boudreaux35
quote:whoa -- you know you're right?
BR was definitely better in the 80s
And so much less culcha....ya know?
I wonder if there's a connection...
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:49 am to kingbob
a fun tradition was going downtown to the levee on the 4th of july to witness huge fireworks and the uss kidd firing off his guns...then some asswipe thug decided to shoot somebody and shut that shite down (at least for me).
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:50 am to danfraz
quote:
Yeah Baton Rouge was just a different city and a different time then.
I remember most of NBR being nice. The only place we avoided was Scotlandville
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:50 am to jdeval1
quote:
The 80s was awesome.
AIDS scare by the late 80s says otherwise.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:51 am to mikelbr
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AIDS scare by the late 80s says otherwise
I wasn't getting laid then anyway
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:53 am to LaBR4
quote:Byronz was across from BRHS and had a place on College
Hopper's
Upside down thick milkshakes
Gatti's And Godfather's on Chimes FTMFW
Round The Corner
Leisure Landing -- GOAT record store... in BR anyway
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXX
And as always post in these threads:
BONO's PIZZA
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:53 am to bigrob385series
quote:
a fun tradition was going downtown to the levee on the 4th of july to witness huge fireworks and the uss kidd firing off his guns...then some asswipe thug decided to shoot somebody and shut that shite down (at least for me).
Thanks for the awesome/bittersweet memories now of my dad always taking me and a few friends down there on the 4th early to get this great spot on the Levee(about where the Belle is) just south of the big crowds. He would set up a old school 'army' tent(before EZ Ups) and chairs, etc. Was our basecamp for the day. We'd mosey all around the booths and bullshite and come back there by dark to get ready to watch fireworks.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:54 am to jdeval1
quote:
I remember most of NBR being nice. The only place we avoided was Scotlandville
agreed. Recall going to a Krispy Kreme (only one in BR at my age then) over on Plank I think and sitting right there at the big glass window watching people eating donuts...Saturday tradition for my mom and I
plus I saw Jaws at the Robert E Lee on Plank and recall eating at a Burger Chef near there
Grew up on Sherwood Forest but back then, nothing was there. Had to go to NBR to do anything. When the Albertsons on Sherwood and Florida opened it was the biggest news of my childhood
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:54 am to Cool Brigade
There was an indoor playground at the BREC park off North Sherwood. I thought it was the coolest place on earth as a 6 year old.
Pitter Patter was a Celebration Station type place off Monterey. Aunt's family owned and ran it. Uncles on other side of family were the dinosaurs in costume. Good times.
Pitter Patter was a Celebration Station type place off Monterey. Aunt's family owned and ran it. Uncles on other side of family were the dinosaurs in costume. Good times.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:55 am to TheFonz
Skate City
Space Port
Shakeys
New Generation
PuttPutt Golf
Aquatic Club
Cortana Mall
Fun Fair Park
Old Alex Box
Luther's BBQ
BlockBuster Video
My personal favorite, Raxs BBQ and Van Halen !
Space Port
Shakeys
New Generation
PuttPutt Golf
Aquatic Club
Cortana Mall
Fun Fair Park
Old Alex Box
Luther's BBQ
BlockBuster Video
My personal favorite, Raxs BBQ and Van Halen !
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:57 am to Brazoria Bengal
I always forget but I grew up when you went to the Varsity to actually see a MOVIE
Saw Pink Flamingos at Midnight there when I was 16 I think...oh and the drinking age was 18 but everyone was drinking by 14 in my group and weeeeeddddd. Lots of weed.
Saw Pink Flamingos at Midnight there when I was 16 I think...oh and the drinking age was 18 but everyone was drinking by 14 in my group and weeeeeddddd. Lots of weed.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:57 am to MottLaneKid
Anyone remember Warren Capone’s Linebackers sports bar and grill on Essen and Vernon Roger’s restaurant where BWW on Bluebonnet is?
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:57 am to danfraz
quote:
Had to go to NBR to do anything. When the Albertsons on Sherwood and Florida opened it was the biggest news of my childhood
My mom used to love The Real Superstore on Greenwell Springs
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:58 am to Paul Allen
quote:
Warren Capone’s Linebackers
This place was just as awful as Dinardo’s
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:01 am to jdeval1
quote:
My mom used to love The Real Superstore on Greenwell Springs
Oh Hell Yeah. had to put a quarter in the basket cause people would steal grocery baskets back then
Loved that place. And the Belmont. Tiffin Inn, Shakey's, Godfather's Pizza...
Coleman Olds, Right on the Corner, Right on the Price
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:01 am to jdeval1
quote:Anybody remember the Warehouse? One on Jefferson near Airline but the original was on Greenwellquote:
When the Albertsons on Sherwood and Florida opened it was the biggest news of my childhood
My mom used to love The Real Superstore on Greenwell Springs
And who remembers Schwegmann's? I don't mean the store on Siegen, I mean the sign on the vacant lot at Perkins and bluebonnet saying one was going to be built there. That sign must've been up 10 years...
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:04 am to ellishughtiger
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:06 am to Kafka
quote:
Anybody remember the Warehouse? One on Jefferson near Airline but the original was on Greenwell
Remember both. The one on Greenwell was next to a pool hall and the first place I went as a "man" to a barbershop...a real barbershop...was in that "center". Across from a cemetery iirc.
quote:
the sign on the vacant lot at Perkins and bluebonnet saying one was going to be built there. That sign must've been up 10 years...
My mother waited years for that thing to be built and it never happened. She retired from LSU waiting for it
frick. I. Am. Old.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 11:08 am to Paul Allen
quote:
The “devil worshipers” of Frenchtown Rd.
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