WW2 effects: Louisiana

Nice pix there.

 

Appreciate it A-58! Thanks for all of your support throughout these!

 

This pic is 3rd Street in downtown Baton Rouge. It sure has changed a lot since then. Starting on the left, the Sears building is gone. That area is now an open courtyard for the Roux House, a popular juke joint. My Mom worked at that very Sears back in the late 50s. She met my Dad there for the first time on a blind set up. Yay for me!

That building on the right with the Greek-like columns is now a special event center. The Western Union and the Singer buildings are combined into a nice place called Happy's Irish Pub. The large building with the open windows is now the Watermark Hotel, where I set my command post up during the Krewe of Orion's Mardi Gras weekend festivities.




Similar view from the 1950s.



Same view from the 1960s.



This is where Sears used to be. Drank many a beer in that courtyard.



Here's Happy's Irish Pub I was telling y'all about.

 

It's an understatement I'm assuming, to say that street means something too you .......

 

Its a slimmer street than ive seen usual in America...


Darwin 1930...I can see the similarities...umm...no I cant!
Bottom right is where I was born...41 years later. You can clearly see the three main roads the Japanese straffed up...top to bottom.

 

New Orleans does have a significant French influence, so that might be why the road is slimmer...total guess of course. Incredible how much Darwin has grown in 80+ years...

 

Yes it is!

Happy's Irish Pub - Louisiana's Own Irish Pub

 

Actually you mean in the past 40 years...Cyclone (hurricane)Tracey swept the place clean...government was even thinking of moving 30km west and start again instead of rebuilding...



Today...

 

Wow......I didn't know that....here I am learning something new once more!

 

What was the point of moving it 30km to the east?

 

Christmas eve 1974 Santa didn't come...instead the big bad wolf turned up, he huffed and puffed and blew our city down...
"Tracy killed 71 people, caused A$837 million in damage (1974 dollars), or approximately A$6.41 billion (2014 dollars), or $4.94 billion 2014 USD"

"In February 1975, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam announced the creation of the Darwin Reconstruction Commission, which was given the task of rebuilding the city "within five years", focusing primarily on building houses.[23] The Commission was headed by Tony Powell.[24] The damage to the city was so severe that some advocated moving the entire city" - Wiki
I left and lived in Alice Springs and then moved to Hobart Tasmania (where most of my family is from) for 4 years then back to Darwin in 1980...
71 deaths is the "white" count...many more Aboriginals died...but we didn't know how many were here and therefore how many perished. Darwinians have pushed to have them recognised in the stats...but we just don't have a good figure.