Shreveport, Remember When... (Greenwood, Benton: hotel, house, movies)

[doxley]

Thinking more about Nick's Drive In, I remember also the Linwood trolley route only went one more block south; it turned around in the Linwood Jr. High parking lot, with it encircling the teacher parking area in the middle. Around circa 1960, it increased it's route to Harrison Street, one block south of Pennock's grocery on Argyle street.

[doxley]

Originally Posted by BeenThereDunThat

Used to go to Kimerly's (sic?) Electric Circus before it burned down. Went to Kimerly's Sand Piper (it caught fire a couple times) Did the Carousel Lounge to play darts, Sean's Blarneystone to play darts, The Rusty Nail to listen to music, play darts and check out the ladies Humphree's in the Square, The Sports Page, Moulin Rouge, and Earnest's on Commerce (it too burned up). Had many a cold beer and oysters at Monsour's on Texas. Did dinners at TGIFridays in the square and Sansone's and Brocato's on Kings. Of course HerbyK's on occasion. The only 2 places still around are HerbyK's and Earnest's... (the new location after the fire).
There's really nothing quite like back in "the day". Very few really good local places as there were in the 70's to mid 80's.
Heck even the Sheraton in Bossier was kickin with the disco-lit acrylic dancefloor as was the case with Mulligan's at the Bossier Hilton. Fell in love at both places many, many times
With chain restaurants and a shrinking younger nightclub populace, there's just not a lot of local entrepreneurs in the nightclub/restaurant biz like there used to be. It was a different time back then too, no casinos to compete with.

I think you're referring to Merle Kimberly's WHISKEY A GO GO, that sat in the curve at the start of the infamous Bossier Strip. He later built the nightclub CHEYENNE LILY'S, a country western dancehall at the exit ramp on Interstate 20 at Monkhouse Drive. As you rightly stated, it also mysteriously caught fire. It later became the SANDPIPER lounge.

[BeenThereDunThat]

Actually the SANDPIPER was before CHEYENNE LILY's... technically they were the same bldg. with the SP entrance facing Monkhouse. CL's entrance was on the backside of the bldg facing East in the parking lot. It was comprised of rustic wood facia to resemble a western boomtown saloon with 2nd story decking. CL was "created" to cash in on the "Urban Cowboy Craze" of the early 1980's and I suspect Merle was trying to copy the success of "COWBOYS" in Bossier which was the hot night spot at the time. I know the SP was going strong in the 1970's. FWIW.

I think they promoted the SP & CL as "two distinctive nightspots in one"...which really didn't make any sense from a marketing standpoint. CL's started out pretty good as I recall but then it started getting a really "mixed crowd" which caused a lot of the original patrons to go to Cowboys or other places that were getting established ...I seem to recall a place in Heart O' Bossier called: STUDEBAKER's or CHEVY's...and then there was MOE & JOE's which was where RALPH & KACOO's is today.

[hdwell]

No sheraton bossier left. New hotels there now. No nightlife anymore in sbc.

[BeenThereDunThat]

I think Cowboy's in Bossier morphed into the Rockin' Rodeo. But I've never been there since it changed.
Commerce Street on the S'port Riverfront has a few places but they seem to attract a harder crowd of urban & GenXer's, seems a place called KoKoPelli's makes the news for fights outside the club. There's one or two other
clubs in the district but nothing to write home about. The Phoenix Underground is on Market St. and there's always the Noble Savage on Texas. Used to be a good place but it's a bit musty and too much ciggie smoke for me to breathe. There's another place called "Chicky-Booms" or something like that on Texas where the old Monsour's Oyster Bar was from another era. I miss the oyster bar, unpretentious and very Louisiana. But again, I'm dating myself here. There is a newer place on Lake St. across from the Shreveport Times print operations called Lake Street Dancehall... I've never been but folks have said it's okay.

[jsoley09]

Does anyone rember Pasquales on 70th i blieve back in the late 70s possibly early 80s?????
i have been dying for a sandwich i used to eat there when i was little!! 35 years and still waiting... was it a French dip sandwich? Please help if you know or remember the sandwich.


Thanks all-

[jsoley09]

Thank you doxley

[doxley]

DJ Bailey was one of the main disc jockeys then. His real name was Robert Smith, who later went on to do voice jobs for a lot of the local television and radio commercials. I was referring to the person that mentioned KTUX- (TUX 99) on the radio long ago. I'm not sure why my post came up without that referral listed.

[doxley]

Does anyone remember the Barksdale drive-in in Bossier City. It sat where the skating rink sits now, across from the Griff's hamburger place. There was also a Leo drive-in in west Shreveport, out on hwy. 80 ( Greenwood Road ). I'm pretty sure they tore it down during the 50's.

[doxley]

There was also a movie theater, that my parents used to allow me to walk to, even as a 2nd grader, and only with my younger siblings. Different World back then !!! The movie theater was the Venus, it was on Lakeshore Drive at the end of Portland Street. Later we used to go to the Grove theater in Cedar Grove. It was located across the the street from Hughes & Roberts grocery, and also the Corner Drug Store, in downtown Cedar Grove. The Dime store was next door to that.