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News:
The Retro Recollection
The Retrospective was launched in 2000, and continues to put us in contact with thousands of people with Alexandria-Pineville and Louisiana roots and connections. We appreciate your support and interest! And we enjoy connecting with you on the Web, Facebook and Twitter. We're just now in off the road from yet another road trip out west. It was a great opportunity to ride Historic Route 66 again. But now it's back to catching up on the Retrospective! New Features
And enjoy a meal out at Herbie K's, or bask in the warm springs at Hot Wells. And don't forget to read about Roy Rogers' visit to Alec. For those with interests in World War II and its impact on the Central Louisiana area, we've added pages dealing with WWII Military Camps, Camp Livingston, and Camp Claiborne. And for our fellow alumni of the old Elliott Street school, you might want to view our Menard Memorial High School page for some familiar photographs and memorabilia. For Bears, check out the new Bolton High School page still being built. There's also a new feature on Alexandria Skyscrapers plus a segment about Bolton Avenue - remember Fuzzy's, The Don Theater, and Piggly Wiggly? And take another trip out to City Park to the Rock Garden, natatorium, zoo, golf courses and see the Aces! One final tip: it's been a while, but now you can take a ride down Third Street, just like in the 1950s! ...
American Retrospective: More Louisiana Cities, and States As part of our new American Retrospective is the Baton Rouge Retrospective, and a page about the history of Barksdale Air Force Base. And we just launched Retrospectives for Shreveport, Monroe and Lafayette as well as the Retrospective Blog. We've added Retrospectives for a total of 60 Louisiana cities, plus some cities in Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi. Included is a new page about the "Pineville Retrospective" -- It is still being built, and we are looking for additional new Pineville content. Reaching Out via Social Media
We're also on Facebook, so please become a fan of the the Retrospective. And you can follow the Retrospective on Twitter and view the Retrospective Blog as well. Bolton and Providence-Menard alumni should check out the latest updates to the Reunions section.
New Retrospective Preview We've added a new "Preview" movie for our many new visitors, and our repeat visitors as well. It highlights some of the popular content of the Retrospective: special people, special places, special events, the good times, the good memories! Take a look at the movie, and turn up your volume! We Need Photos from You! We would like to see some new, unpublished photographs appear on the Retrospective for all to enjoy. Something different, perhaps something personal, a new angle on a popular place we all remember. We've all viewed many photos of the old City Hall, the Bentley, Third Street, etc. Those are good, but we are trying to assemble a new group of unique photos. View some recent photos submitted. If you have any photos to share, please email them to photos@alexandria-louisiana.com, along with a brief explantion: where, when, who, etc. Jack Frost and His New Writings Remember Jack Frost from his days at KALB-TV? He has written a number of short stories, and a new fictional novel set in Louisiana. We're pleased to provide a brief biography of Jack and links to some of his recent work.
As witnessed by the continual addition of new entries to the "Register", the Retrospective web site is still being discovered and explored by new viewers, and by thousands of return visitors as well. In the last 12 months, the web site has had over 31,000 visits from 21,077 of you, from 114 countries! We are currently averaging about 100 visits a day.
We hope that you enjoy your journey back to the simpler times! Recollection News ArchiveJanuary 2009
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If you haven't visited the Retrospective lately, we've added a number of new features. For example, for those of us with a fascination about the earlier days of travel, and retro motels, we have a new 
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This site started slowly, and small, in mid-2000. Since then it has grown, and evolved, with many new features that somehow weren't always logically connected. So we've redesigned the site and made navigation easier, and the content more unified. Yet we maintained the integrity of the "Original Retrospective" as it appeared in 2000, with the documentary of the pictures of the city as it existed at that moment of time in 2000.V
June 2008
The
Historic Bentley Site
We finished work in June with Dale Genius of the Louisiana History Museum on the HistoricBentley web site. If you have any interest in the Bentley, you'll enjoy the photographs and other information on the site.
February 2006
Classified Ads...from the Past
We've added a new section called Classified Ads from the Past ... do you remember 4-digit phone numbers, and those ads from Herbie K's, Dore & Jake's, Ellington Transfer, and others? View the ads
January 2006
Updated Postcard Collection
We've added over 20 new postcards to the Alexandria Postcard Collection during January, so be sure to take a look and see how many of those sites you remember.
August
2004
Clippings from the Past
View our new area entitled "Clippings from the Past", highlighting various local and national events and how they affected those of us with Alexandria-Pineville connections.
July 2004
The New Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center
We
encourage you to see the great happenings in downtown Alexandria today,
such as the new Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center on Third Street,
built on the site of the old Wellan's Department Store. Click
here and learn more more about this exciting new facility!
March 2004
The Status of the Original Retrospective
The Retrospective remains a collection of my thoughts, and emotions, as of mid-2000 when I originally conceived it. It was not meant to be an all-inclusive collection of Alexandria.
And time has already whittled away at those 2000 images, with some such as the street car tracks at Fourth and DeSoto, the Firestone Store, and the Gulf Oil Station on Bolton Avenue already sadly erased. So the "Original Retrospective" will remain unchanged as it was written and photographed in 2000.
February
2004
Alexandria Landmarks...Can You Identify?
A new feature added in January 2004 shows some less-obvious Alexandria landmarks. The landmarks will be changing often, so check back frequently with the Retrospective site and see if you can identify these landmarks from the past
January 2004
Due to Popular Demand: Alex Collectibles
As a response to your frequent requests, we are now offering custom-designed Alexandria collectibles, including CD-ROMs, calendars, large format reprints, and a series of montages suitable for framing. The Special Edition CD-ROM has been a popular item, as have the calendars and AlexMontages.
The first of these Alexandria Heritage Collection products are now available for purchase in the Gift Shop.
March 2003
Alexandria Postcard Collection
We've created the Alexandria Postcard Collection of about 200 historic images of buildings, street scenes, parks, schools, churches, military camps and more.