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re: Why isn't Lake Charles a lot bigger than it is?
Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:50 pm to ShunnedHuman
Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:50 pm to ShunnedHuman
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Why isn't Lake Charles a lot bigger than it should be?
Huh?
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Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:52 pm to fightin tigers
quote:Refer back to the post before yours.
Doesn't the hurricane excuse apply to Beaumont and Houston?
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And if you are choosing between texas and LC you choose texas
Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:53 pm to Cleathecat
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The better and more interesting question is why Corpus isn't bigger
Corpus is basically a bigger version of Lake Charles with beaches and more Mexicans.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 11:36 pm to lsuwins3
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You wonder where LC would be without the casinos. Or if Texas ever legalizes casino gambling.
Actually there were many backroom casinos on Hwy 90 from Texas to the east side of Lake Charles until the early 60's when the sheriff, Ham Reid, almost lost an election. By the early 70's between Sulphur and Lake Charles were were still a few strip clubs with aging chubby washed up dancers who were more about hustling $20 Champaign Cocktails (7Up) A LOT of money back then,.any place charging more than a $1 for a mixed drink was overcharging.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 6:01 am to Kenna City Solja
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Paying Texas property tax and Louisiana income tax
Yeah, those guys don't sound very smart...
Posted on 1/11/26 at 6:52 am to ShunnedHuman
Lake is in the way of expansion.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 1:14 pm to CitizenK
I thought is was closer to Kirby Street. Upon my recollection we went there to see David Allen Coe but I was on active duty at the time.
You are likely correct as to the location because most of the movie houses were under umbrella of the Southern Amusement Company including the Paramount, Arcade, Ritz, either the Delta or Palace, Dixie, Midway, Surf, New Moon, Rice, Yam, and the ones in Jennings and Eunice and possibly the one in Sulphur. The President of the Southern Amusement Company was George Baillio lived on Broad Street at the home next to the Governor's Mansion and always had a new Cadillac. I believed that his grandson was the owner of Gandolf's instead of the manager.
You are likely correct as to the location because most of the movie houses were under umbrella of the Southern Amusement Company including the Paramount, Arcade, Ritz, either the Delta or Palace, Dixie, Midway, Surf, New Moon, Rice, Yam, and the ones in Jennings and Eunice and possibly the one in Sulphur. The President of the Southern Amusement Company was George Baillio lived on Broad Street at the home next to the Governor's Mansion and always had a new Cadillac. I believed that his grandson was the owner of Gandolf's instead of the manager.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 2:42 pm to CharleyLake
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I thought is was closer to Kirby Street. Upon my recollection we went there to see David Allen Coe but I was on active duty at the time.
North of the corner of Pujo and Ryan. It was L shaped inside. Larger in rear than the entrance. A former high school classmate who had transferred from St. Louis then Lake Charles High School then dropped out all due his heavy drug use was a burger flipper there. Great charcoal grilled burgers too. The former classmate ended up going before a judge and given the choice of going to college or jail. He died a few years ago from cancer after retiring as an English prof in Little Rock. A really smart guy whose life had severe downward spiral due his life choices as a teen.
I am pretty sure that Spook owned it. He may have had a partner like he did with everything. Former KPLC anchor and WWII Ranger, at Dieppe, Red Johnson was his partner with the silk screen printing. Jules Guglielmo Jr. who was an electrical engineer designed and handled creation of KGRA and even found some college in the Great Plains to purchase the call sign from so to honor Spook's brother, Gray Strean, who died in the Eastern Airlines crash in New Orleans. This was done so that Spook wouldn't lose interest immediately after launching it.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 2:46 pm to CharleyLake
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Paramount,
That is where Kenny Cotten of Cotten's hamburgers got his start atter high school and ended up being manager before it closed. Come to think of it, the Paramount was still there when Gandolf's was open. Kenny's mom bankrolled his burger start up.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 6:22 pm to CitizenK
I went to LCHS with Kenny. Pretty sure he got his start-start working at Colonial Inn on Broad Street in the early 70s.
This post was edited on 1/11/26 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 1/11/26 at 6:43 pm to CitizenK
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a few strip clubs with aging chubby washed up dancers who were more about hustling $20 Champaign Cocktails
One of those was my first foray into a strip club. One girl who worked there was a short with a club right hand we called lefty. Funny thing though, she was a pretty good pool player.
This post was edited on 1/11/26 at 6:45 pm
Posted on 1/11/26 at 7:27 pm to drjett
He did but his job was the cash register. The cooks were Joe Lavergne and Terry Ramirez. I think the Colonial Inn was where Kenny got the burger recipe.
We affectionally called them "The Greeks."
We affectionally called them "The Greeks."
Posted on 1/11/26 at 7:34 pm to CSinLC
Sounds about right
Posted on 1/11/26 at 8:38 pm to ShunnedHuman
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Why isn't Lake Charles a lot bigger than it should be?
Maybe you should try feeding it a lot of pork. It will get bigger.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 9:38 pm to NoBoDawg
quote:Yeah, I hope they mean bigger than it is. Otherwise it's nonsensical.
Why isn't Lake Charles a lot bigger than it should be?
Huh?
Posted on 1/11/26 at 10:27 pm to Cosmo
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Because its close to texas
I get that, but it's not like Orange, Vidor, and Beaumont are exactly great places either.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 5:45 am to ShunnedHuman
Lack of diverse economic opportunities
Posted on 1/12/26 at 6:36 am to biglosdaddy
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Would you want to drive on that bridge that they have? Probably because people fear it collapsing.
Grew up in that area. Drove over those bridges so much I could do it with my eyes closed in a traffic jam. Drove over the 210 in a storm with horizontal rain.
No I go out of my way to avoid those bridges. And that is I moved the hell out.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 6:41 am to CitizenK
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Also, a lot of the family members of these large landowners had by then moved to Houston and more interested in investing there after
This is the large majority of their educated once graduated.
They move away from the state.
Louisiana probably keeps less educated people year than any other state.
So now you have just a certain group procreating but all the overachievers are elsewhere having kids.
True facts. There really isn’t anything to argue here or rebuttal. It just is what it is. The sooner the people of that city have some acceptance of this the better their reputation will get.
I worked in Houston many years with many people who went to lake Charles for whatever reason. The stories are never positive if they have mingled with the public in any capacity.
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