Alexandria Louisiana Retrospective - Lee Street Neighborhood

Lee Street Neighborhood
downtown Alexandria Louisiana

	Introduction
	Downtown
	Bolton Avenue
	Moms and Pops
	The Automobile
	Closed But Not Forgotten
	Signs of the Times
	Neighborhoods
	Afterthoughts
	Credits

Just south of downtown, this building sits as a reminder of another neighborhood being lost. A victim of I-49, and just general neglect. Near here, my brother worked as a bag-boy at the neighborhood A&P. Also, a radio and TV store held wonders in 1955, before we could afford a television. During rides at night to escape our un-air-conditioned house on Alma Street, my parents would take the kids here, and watch TV for a few minutes, on the set in the store window. One channel was plenty!