re: Lake Charles Nostalgia Thread

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vinton, vidor's sidekick

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vinton, vidor's sidekick

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Surely you're kidding...up to last year, they had a black mayor.

lucky sob

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I have heard that Lake Charles is the arm-pit of the universe!! Is it really that bad????

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pretty close

I remember Nelson's donuts, though I had forgotten about it. I don't remember Cotton's Hamburgers at all. I worked in a new pizza place on Prien Lake Road back in the late 60's .. maybe 1968 but I can't remember the name of it! I remember when they built Burger Chef on Enterprise just south of 12th street, 15 cent burgers.. lol.

I was born and raised in Lake Charles, born at St. Patricks Hospital in 1952 and left when I married in 1973 and never went back.

Anyone remember, or know of, a girl named Sandra Simmons? She went to Rosteet Jr. High during the middle 1960's????

SnowCajun

PJ...the L'Auberge Du Lac Resort and Casino is pretty damned nice...if you find yourself in Lake Chuck...it is a good place to go..

> I think my dad tells stories of that pizza place. Was it the first in Lake Charles?

Yes I think it was, that was what I remembered anyway!

You reminded me of something else, there was a convenience store, don't remember the name, but I think it was on the southeast corner of Lake St. and Country Club Road that had the best BBQ sandwiches .. but that was back in the late 60's also.

There was an old drive in food place, seems it was painted green if my memory holds true, next to Lock Park .. or was it Locke Park, not sure of the spelling, only remember what seemed to be huge slides there. The drive in was named Joes Drive In I think and they made a fried oyster po-boy .. to kill for almost :-þ.. omg!

I remember I was driving trucks out of Houston for Borden's back in the mid 70's and used to deliver plastic milk jugs to the Borden's on Ryan street. They had just closed their little ice cream shop they had out front a few days earlier, I guess this was in 1976. I was there early one morning unloading and saw someone in there and walked in, they were getting ready to start taking the stuff out of there, I told him when I was a little kid my mom always used to bring me there for chocolate ice cream soda's with vanilla ice cream .. He told me, "let me fix you one, you'll get he last one in Lake Charles from here" .. Odd the memories that are popping out.

It's the old Oak Park Theater that's the church now, isn't it?

I remember the pastor there when he was a little kid.

Hey, the Charles Cinema by McNeese was state-of-the-art in its day (early 70s).

It was the first "suburban" theater in town and of course ... two screens. Wow.

I watched "Patton" there.

Good eating when I was a kid was the old Burger Chef up by Bealls just off of Broad Street.

Uh ... yes. This was back in the 60s.

Man, I remember that old narrow bridge across the river going to Moss Bluff.

Moss Bluff was waaaay out in the sticks in the late sixties.

I can't say as I remember going to Vinton much in my youth, though my ex lives there now I hear, I think on Lyons St. or something like that, but she still refuses to talk to me 13 years down the road.

I used to go hunting a lot in Gum Cove, I wonder if there's still a ferry crossing there? I did a lot of goose hunting, some guiding too, back in the mid to late 60's along the Lacassine Game Reserve. I hear there's not as many geese and ducks down there anymore!

I used to spend summers out on the old boat club pier, that was fun. We'd swim over to the Sheriff's Dept. boat dock and raid their soft drink cooler .. I hope the Statute of Limitations has run out on that.. There was a man who had a large boat there called the Sea Castle, his name was Graves Castle I think. I used to go out on his boat with him now and then. Also on the opposite side was a steel boat owned by a Mr. Lindsay, or Lindsey .. I don't recall anymore. I know both of these gentlement had built their boats I think in their back yards, but how they got them to the lake I have no idea.

The Sea Castle if I remember correctly Mr. Castle said was made from dredged up Cypress logs. Also if I remember Mr. Lindsay said his boat had two Greyhound bus engines in it. I went out on Mr. Lindsay's boat when that small airplane crashed into the lake and we were trying to find the bodies of the pilot and passenger using shrimping nets. That must have been 1964 .. I was only 12 and I'm not really sure I was truly hoping to pull up a body back then.

I don't really have bad memories of Lake Charles I feel, I think we all eventually feel our hometowns are dull places, but other places can become just as dull as the newness wears off. I know I am glad I was born and raised down there, all the hunting and fishing I did, and catching alligators .. it was an adventure!

SnowCajun
Born south of I-10 but love the snow!