Lake Charles: Growing Metropolis | 1981
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2020
- This documentary from April 27, 1981, focuses on Lake Charles, Louisiana, in honor of Louisiana Public Broadcasting going on the air in the city. It covers: the history of the city, including the origin of its name; the importance of the Port of Lake Charles; the city’s economic growth; and McNeese State University. It includes interviews with: James Sudduth, director of the Port of Lake Charles; Mayor William Boyer; State Senator Cliff Newman; and Jack Doland, president of McNeese State University. This program also features a tour of Lake Charles, including the Civic Center, Burton Memorial Coliseum, the Louisiana Freedom Tower, North Beach, Sam Houston Jones State Park, the Imperial Calcasieu Museum, Contraband Days, and the Delta Downs Race Track.
Narrator: Jack Frost
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I am always looking for videos and pictures of what’s Lake Charles looked like before I was born, so happy to find a whole documentary that shows just that.
I grew up there my childhood home was on Overhill Drive and I went to Dolby Elementary School.
Weird not seeing the tower downtown!
Oh my gosh, never knew it was recognized as one of the 10 most beautiful bridges in the nation, wow, I see it almost everyday. That's amazing!
Ikr?? Its so crazy!
I was always partial to the i-10 bridge. I think it's because when I was little my parents told me that the flintlocks belonged Jean Laffite & his crew & they welded them into the railings in their honor. I really hope they incorporate them into the new bridge, that is if it's ever built..
@@PMickeyDee
Not until current bridge falls..
@@michaelturano7522 at this point I'm convinced that the idiots in power will allow it to fall and somehow venture capital their way into a for-profit bridge scheme long after
I moved to LC in 1981. My dad left the coal mines in WV to work at Gulf States Utilities. I was 5. I lived there until 1991. Memories of Contraband Days, and the powerboat races, Mardi Gras, the sound of Zydeco music, KBIU 104 was the popular [maybe the only] radio station at the time. Aladdins Castle arcade at Prien Lake Mall, Barbe Bucs! Great memories! Glad I had the oppurtunity to grow up there!
Ahhh the powerboat races, I'm glad I got to experience them before it shut down
I was 6 .. had the BEST times for Contraband Days ‼️
Too bad liberals came in to screw it all up ‼️🤬‼️
I loved this video! I was born in Lafayette and we moved to Lake Charles when I was a year old. I was 5 in 1981. I was telling my sister in law about how much the city has changed and grown since we were kids. She's from Kansas. I'm going to show her this video.
Hi, how are you?
I was 6 & it’s crazy how much changed yet stayed the same
So glad I stumbled on this. I’m a descendant of Arsene LeBleu (one of thousands I’m sure), Catherine’s brother, and my research brought me to this delightful story worthy of such a great little city. Glad to see the story captured on video for many more to enjoy. Many don’t realize how deep into Louisiana history this LeBleu family goes, as connected to Arsene’s mother, from the very founding of French Louisiana’s first settlements with Iberville and Bienville, New Orlean’s birth and prominent family, to the leader of the French Revolution against the Spanish government taking over Louisiana, rewarded with execution by firing squad. Lake Charles does have some great stories deeply embedded in those bayou banks.
I was born in 86 but I was born and raised here. I love Lake Charles with all my heart and soul.
Born and raised from 1950 to 1976 still have family there graduated from LaGrange and McNeese State
Ain’t no place like the Lake 💪, the bridge is still here standing strong
I grew up here I was 11 when this came out. A few years later there were bumper stickers that would say the last one to leave Lake Charles turn off the lights because the economy went bust.
I was born in Opelousas but raised in Lake Charles join the Navy in 1985 and now reside in Connecticut.
Oh wow! I came to the LCLA area from San Diego, CA in 1989 with my now deceased husband, may he R.I.Paradise.
His grandmother's house was on (0:49) Laurel Avenue and Old Spanish Trail in Belair.
The Mossville Afroamerican community was a settlement more than 200 years old, I later came to find out, established even prior to the imperial calcasieu parish 🕵🏼.. Until the plants bought and destroyed it. And yes, when I arrived here the LCLA area was much further behind, but it has been a very slow "growing metropolis". Let's keep watching!!
Very interesting history on my city.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hurricane Laura 2020
I use to communicate from here in new england to someone from houston...they made it sound as id it were HUGE...it actually looks like it could be considered to be a large pond..maybe my older eyes just aren't getting the right angle of its size hmmmm
@@blueforest2927 not big but was bigger.. Where the civic center sits used to be lake
@@blueforest2927 The city is named after the lake. The lake is named after the founder, Charles Salle.
0:27 seeing the capitol one tower being constructed and realizing its getting imploded next month...
My Dad was from Lake Charles!
The year I graduated from Lake Charles High
You did? Did I know you?
Growing Metropolis lol
The Oil Bust stalled it's momentum; then came Rita & Laura. Lac Charles really should be about the same size as Houston since they have the exact same economy.
@@MoneyC225 maybe the size of Shreveport or Baton Rouge, but not Houston. Metro-Houston is over 4 million, Louisiana as a state is just over 4 million.
@@mr.mr.4772 And close to half of Houston's metro area comes from Louisiana. Without Louisiana's miscues (bad weather & politics) over the last 100 years, Houston would be the same size as Beaumont.
@@MoneyC225 I agree with you on the miscues of Louisiana politics. LC should be a lot bigger, but old money still runs the area. I'm from LC and live in metro-Houston, so I see your point.
@@mr.mr.4772 Old money is correct! They desperately try to stifle anything they don't have their fingers in.
They named the town after a murderer? 🤔
Yes when he found out that she was having an affair with a ships captain that use to dock in Port of Lake Charles and he found out and shot her in the chest with a shot gun he then left Lake Charles but later came back but was never charged or convicted of the murder
He thought he killed her, but she did not die. You must have watched the video on mute, because the narrator says that Katherine lived.
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Dr. Doland was right about many things. When I went to McNeese there was 10k students and that was in the late 80s/ early 90s.
Bag of rice, NFCU
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