Baton Rouge Louisiana
Connections with Alexandria

Our connection with Baton Rouge is a strong one. It has been a significant part of our lives, and we were residents of "Red Stick" for decades.

We've made the trip from Alexandria to Baton Rouge hundreds of times on U.S. 71 and U.S. 190, and in later years on I-49.

We can clearly see in our minds communities such as Lecompte, Meeker, Cheneyville, Bunkie, and LeBeau. We know Port Barre, Krotz Springs, Livonia, Erwinville and Port Allen, and the other places on the area map.

Here we recall memories of the Louisiana Capitol City, from the retro 1940s motels along Airline Highway to the architecture of LSU to the historic Mississippi River to the re-emerging downtown, and lots of points in between!

We like to look back in time to the Twentieth Century, and the many good things that characterized those amazing years.

Our focus is on architecture, historic preservation, landscapes, nostalgia, photography, postcards and related items that tell the story of the places, and people, that so many of us remember well.

On this site we have a small collection of Baton Rouge postcard views of public buildings, schools, hospitals, railroad stations, and hotels & motels.

We explore LSU and its classic buildings, and take a look at early images of Huey Long's skyscraper State Capitol building.

And we have a small collection of photographic memories as well, showing relics and landmarks of the past that still existed in Baton Rouge in the late 20th Century, some of which are now demolished.

Some like Sam's Meat Market on Government Street, across from Baton Rouge High School, sadly no longer exist, but we remember ...

view the Baton Rouge Historic Postcard Collection