Jim Bradshaw
Enough was enough when a Baton Rouge hotel charged a state legislator thirty cents for his breakfast in June 1942.
He stormed back to the capitol and filed a bill to keep hotels and restaurants from raising prices during football weekends, Mardi Gras, and when the legislature was in session.
Jim Bradshaw
It took more than three hours for 8,000 soldiers and a thousand-plus trucks to move through Opelousas on Saturday, May 11, 1940, and they were moving as quickly as they could.
It was quite a show and people turned out to watch. According to the Opelousas Clarion-News, the hundreds of onlookers who lined Union Street to cheer for the convoy included “veterans, young Sub-Debs thrilled by the soldiers in khaki, housewives and businessmen.”
Jim Bradshaw
In a recent column about early baseball rivalries, I noted that the Orange Hoo-Hoos were one of the teams in the short-lived Gulf Coast League in the early 1900s. That prompted a reader to ask, “Why would a team have such a silly name?”
It turns out that it isn’t quite a silly as it appears. The team was supported by the Orange chapter of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, a society for people in the lumber industry.
Jim Bradshaw
April 14, 1935, is still referred to as Black Sunday in the American Midwest because that was the worst day of one of the worst dust storms in U.S. history. More than 300,000 tons of topsoil were blown away during that storm, some of it landing in south Louisiana.
It didn’t turn mid-day into midnight like it did in some places, but it did darken and dirty us up.
The National Weather Service account said that other storms had preceded this one, but none were as bad.
Bryan Golden
To lead an orchestra, a conductor has to turn his back to the crowd. To lead your life, you have to turn your back to the crowd. This means you have to immunize yourself to what others say, think, or do relative to your quest to achieve your goals.
Just as a conductor must focus on the performance of the orchestra, you need to focus on the performance of your life. If a conductor faces the crowd, he can’t direct the musicians.
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