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Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:29 am to TheFonz
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The roller rink and Don Carter's were great back then, as well as Celebration Station when it first opened. Putt Putt Golf, too. Went to many a birthday party at Fun Fair Park.
Children's Palace was the toy store of toy stores.
Baton Rouge was pretty damn good if you were a kid in those days.
Leo's and Skate City
Don Carters
Tiger Drive Inn
Circle Bowl after Midnight
Midnight Movies at Cinema 16 (Rocky Horror and The Kentucky Movie)
Fun Fair Park and Putt-Putt
Bon Marche and Cortana Malls
2010
Electric Avenue on Bennington Ave
Frisco's
Pool Tournaments at any of the Racks
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:30 am to Cool Brigade
The only indoor play that mattered was Skip Bertman's Batting Cages.
Joint had multiple speed cages, basketball, putt-putt, & sports memorabilia + trading cards for sale.
Joint had multiple speed cages, basketball, putt-putt, & sports memorabilia + trading cards for sale.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:32 am to supadave3
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Putter Patter was in the old Delchamps at Florida and Villa Del Ray. I remember going there for my ex girlfriends niece in the 90’s
I used to steal booze from The K&B right down the street in 90-91. This is correct.
Also, BREC has an indoor playground that has been open for about 20 years for you younger kids. It's at N Sherwood Forrest just past Choctaw.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:35 am to madamsquirrel
Spent many an allowance at Space Port in the mall and the Arcade on Old Jefferson Highway near the Cracker Barrel.
BMX track behind Capitol Schwinn on Florida was the tits. 80s in BTR was full of stuff to do. Putt Putt, bowling, the movie theater on Essen, Bon Marche movie theatre, Broadmore, etc etc. Comic stores in Catfish town and on Bluebonnet. Remote control car race track. Fun fair park. The old Water Slides in Denham...was it in Denham?? the one on the hill.
And you didn't have to drive across the country to play youth baseball.
BMX track behind Capitol Schwinn on Florida was the tits. 80s in BTR was full of stuff to do. Putt Putt, bowling, the movie theater on Essen, Bon Marche movie theatre, Broadmore, etc etc. Comic stores in Catfish town and on Bluebonnet. Remote control car race track. Fun fair park. The old Water Slides in Denham...was it in Denham?? the one on the hill.
And you didn't have to drive across the country to play youth baseball.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:36 am to prplhze2000
Photon Opens -WAFB
This post was edited on 1/30/18 at 10:39 am
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:37 am to Ed Osteen
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You make it sound like Baton Rouge was another planet
It absolutely was. Baton Rouge in the 80’s had an 18 year old drinking age, and brought in the biggest acts in rock and roll every weekend. Business was good, there was lots for kids to do, school system was great, crime was relatively low.
Then the oil crunch closed most of the businesses downtown.
Then Judge Parker destroyed the school system with his desegregation order triggering white flight.
Then the kid was trampled to death at a concert at the PMAC. LSU stopped hosting concerts and the city cracked down on drinking and musical acts. The bands stopped coming.
Then the crack crime wave swept the city into violence that’s hard to fathom today.
Then the drinking age was raised to 21 and the great crackdown on fun expanded rapidly.
Then all of the fun places we went to as children started shutting down as the city became poorer, emptier, and more dangerous.
Thankfully, Governor Foster’s initiatives to revitalize downtown by consolidating state government offices there combined with Kip Holden’s forward thinking helped bring the city back from the brink and by the late 2000s started showing real progress. We have a booming downtown area and a stabilized mid city core that was once in freefall. If it weren’t for the flood and SWB, things would be looking up.
This post was edited on 1/30/18 at 11:45 am
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:37 am to Hankg
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Teen nightclub called 2010 that turned into another club called The Zoo after midnight. Was located behind Cortana Mall.
Bon Marche Mall is where 2010/Zoo were in late 80s-~91.
Was Attached to the mall next to the McDonalds entrance. Structure is still there.
Bon Marche Mall also had Weekends/Cajun Hall on the perimeter.
Cortana had Petris/Nouveau in early 90s and is now Reflections(reception hall). I'll never forgive Timmy T for cancelling a concert there in 1991. What Will I Do!!!! They did refund our $7(we paid in advance the weekend before and got these little colored paper tickets. Jeez technology back then).
This post was edited on 1/30/18 at 10:43 am
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:38 am to Tempratt
quote:All you need too know is that it was nicknamed "Jew Generation"
Wasn't there a place called New Generation? What was it like?
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:38 am to Cool Brigade
...bet no one knows what Tigerino was...
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:39 am to jdeval1
quote:Every Southern city was better in the '80s
BR was definitely better in the 80s
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:39 am to Kafka
quote:
All you need too know is that it was nicknamed "Jew Generation"
Incorrect:
Jew Penetration
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:41 am to TheFonz
quote:Art Colley's was an upscale audio/video place on Jefferson near Fleur-de-lis
I don't remember Art Coley's (what kind of place was that?)
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:42 am to Cool Brigade
Photon was laser tag. I had that ID from a birthday I kept for years after that!
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:44 am to scottfruget
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:44 am to madamsquirrel
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:44 am to Cool Brigade
We used to go into Steinberg's Sporting Goods when I was a kid. This was before the Super Stores. They had that field cannon outside and a Polar Bear inside.
Photon was awesome also. Traffic was still terrible. I can remember all the back road shortcuts to get through the city .
Photon was awesome also. Traffic was still terrible. I can remember all the back road shortcuts to get through the city .
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:45 am to scottfruget
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Photon was laser tag. I had that ID from a birthday I kept for years after that!
Photon was expensive as HELL..
They later made home kits that were similar to the one's you had at the facility.
IN BR It was the building that most recently was FYE on Constistution and now a party store I believe.
I went ONCE b/c we were poor and it was about $3 per game.
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:45 am to jdeval1
quote:
BR was definitely better in the 80s
And so much less culcha....ya know?
Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:45 am to TurkeysAndBees
quote:I heard both versions as well as "New Jew" and some others I won't post
Incorrect:
Jew Penetration
I went with posting the least suggestive variation
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