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Memories and Stories of Alexandria Friends

Many of our viewers with Alexandria-Pineville and CenLA roots have a wealth of memories from their past and present connections with this area.

These memories and recollections are expressed in original text, short stories, historic picture postcards, memorabilia, newspaper articles, and photographs. Thanks to those viewers listed below for sharing their memories with all of us!

This section of the Retrospective is consistently a "most popular" with visitors to this site. If you have memories and photographs to share, we would be pleased to publish them.

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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

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