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A German postcard from the early 1900’s. Looks like it depicts the celebration Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s Day and Easter all in one.
Easter memories: Fashion, hair and dying those eggs (Remembering When -Georgie Manuel column)
Easter memories from another generation would include having my grandmother sew for weeks on a new dress, then Mama taking me to Miller’s Shoe Store for a pair of black patent Mary Janes. Later, we...
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Could city have been ‘Isora’?
As with every Spring season, thoughts turn to Easter, May fests, end of school, field trips and graduations. This is not a new thing. Seems like it’s been going on for quite a while. Above is an in...
Mar 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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$30, no ringers please
Thirty dollars was a lot of money in the early 1900s, but it is still probably fair to say that the UL baseball program was a lot less expensive back in the days when Southwestern Louisiana Indust...
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Lafitte wasn't only pirate
Jean Lafitte was the most notorious — and successful — of the pirates operating from Louisiana in the early 1800s, but he wasn't the only one. A federal grand jury in New Orleans reported in July 1...
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This 1944 Louisiana license plate is on loan to the Eunice Depot Museum by Dale and Herman Francois.
License plates from cane byproduct? (Remembering When- Georgie Manuel column)
A program on TV recently showed some antique license plates and the narrator went into details about the various ways they were made, then showed a very rare one that was made of leather. That got ...
Mar 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Saving the Southern Club
The news that an attempt is being made to restore the old Southern Club will bring a lot of memories to folks who remember what some consider the heyday of Louisiana's distinctive swamp pop music. ...
Mar 03, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pat and Saundra Frey during the “boudin break” on Soileau Road during the Eunice Mardi Gras run.
Thanks, Saundra, Pat and others (Remembering When-Georgie Manuel column)
Mardi Gras. It’s all over but the liniment. There are some of us who refuse to give up. At the rate I’m going, we’re gonna have to install a ramp to get my carcass on the trailer. But, they say, wh...
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Home Front gave much in WWII
Many slogans were associated with World War II but the unspoken slogan had to be "Waste not, want not." It seemed that the citizenry was constantly reminded that everything they'd once thrown away ...
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Cajuns and WWI
World War II sent the Acadians of south Louisiana out into the world, and their world was changed forever by the experience. But World War I apparently did not have that same effect. Minnie Kelley...
Feb 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fun and feasting before fasting -- Remembering When-Georgie Manuel Column
This is presented as a welcome to the visitors of our fair city who are here for the Mardi Gras festivities: It’s Mardi Gras time! There are those who do and those who don’t: take part or otherwis...
Feb 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rice land was a good investment
After the railroads opened the southwest Louisiana prairies in the late 1800s, farmers from the American Midwest began to look south to warmer climes. Many of them thought at first that they would ...
Feb 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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If anyone, then Paul
By Billy Turner I was studying the 11th chapter of John’s Gospel yesterday for a Bible Study last night at one of the churches. The chapter, of course, is the story of Lazarus’ being brought back ...
Jan 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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