Alexandria Louisiana and Rapides Parish memories, writings, short stories, original photographs

Memories and Stories of Alexandria Friends

Others with Alexandria-Pineville and CenLA roots have a wealth of memories, some expressed in original text, stories and photographs. Thanks to those listed below for sharing their memories with us!

If you have memories and photographs to share, we would be pleased to publish them ... please contact us for more information. Thanks...

a group of Alexandria friends ... at the Hotel Bentley

Cathy Cotton Nolan
Newspaper article celebrating the 55th Anniversary of the Cotton Brothers Baking Company, headquartered in Alexandria

Cathy Smith Williams
Photographs taken from her father's Conoco Service Station at the corner of Jackson Street and MacArthur Drive, late 1950s

T. J. Fitts
Photographs of Cherokee and Rugg school classes, mid-1950s

Bill Phillips
Photograph of his father and other drivers of the Alexandria Coca-Cola Bottling Company with their trucks at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana

Jack Frost
Biography, some short stories, and introduction to new fictional novel set in Louisiana

Linda Morris
Old Rosenthal pictures, Ruth Beasley's last 6th grade class, spring 1960
Southern Bell Telephone Company, circa 1950
Snowfall, early 1960s
Gretchen Miller and Linda Morris on Chester Street

Joe Wilson and Matthew Rector
Soldiers from Camp Claiborne on Lee Street, about 1942

George Wilson
Rosenthal Elementary School, Fifth Grade, Teacher Mrs. Ludeau, March 1970

Joseph Baillio
Photograph and memories of "Pecan Orchard at Willow Glen"

Floreda Duke Varick
Photographs and the Alexandria MatchBook Collection

Mike Chapman & Mary Chapman Simpson
Photograph and memories of Chapman's Grocery

Karen McKnight
Photograph and article about Castor Plunge

Muff McGinty Boyd
Our Lady of Prompt Succor class of 1961 photo

Matthew Hall
The Interurban Bus Lines, circa 1922-25

Marilyn Burnum Rico
The European Tourist Courts, later named the Louise Motel, on Lee Street next to Herbie-K's Restaurant, 1956

Eloise East Rudloff
Providence Academy, primer and first grade, 1935 picture

Dan Lemoine, Gulf Shores, Alabama
The Early Thirties
Transportation & Industry
Neighborhoods...and dirt streets
Education: West End, Rosenthal, more
Late Thirties: Buses, telephones, power plant
Ringling Brothers Circus comes to town
Staying cool in the summertime
World War II and Alexandria
Post War Alexandria
Murray Street Bridge
MacArthur Drive - where I learned to fly

Franklin O. "Mike" Mikell, Alexandria, LA
Fort Buhlow and Crazy Lakes
CYO Building on Texas Avenue
City natatorium
MacArthur Drive
and much more!

Pat McCauley, Alabama
Echoes of Mockingbird Park

Bill King, Houston, TX
1952 Bolton High School football team

Randy Ball, Tomball, TX
Menard Memorial High School, circa 1925
Mike Mule's Texaco Service Station
Pincus-Murphy Music House
Plantation scenes
more!

Eloise East Rudloff, Wharton, TX
1930s and 1940s life in Alexandira

Sharon Smith, Hendersonville, TN
early photos from Rosenthal Elementary
The Sullivan Brothers: famous WWII family

Ed Barrett
construction of home at 3216 Marye Street

Teri Welch
an 1882 postcard

Glen Saucier
1957 tonado aftermath
Murray Street during Red River flood
steam locomotive, 1935-36
Alexandria snowfall, 1950
Masonic Drive flooding, 1953

Ronnie Puckett, Pineville, LA
Medica's Cities Service station, 1955
Bolton High pep rally, 1960
L.S. Rugg Elementary, 7th grade, 1956
Bowlero Lanes being demolished, 2004
Little Theater, 2004
Masonic Home, 2004

Mary Barnidge, Florida
3 fabulous postcards from the very early years

Kathleen Foto
1909 postcard of Catholic church and rectory

Fred Richards
Postcard of "old" Bolton High

Ned Berlin, Alexandria, LA
Photo of Rosenthal Grammar School

Brenda Mills, Alexandria, LA
3 historic postcards...
Christmas postcard
Confederate Monument
Pineville flood