Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • Plum Street School – 1952-53

    https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-pho%3A490 This is another one added from the Brinsmade collection recently donated. The ladies are all identified in the description. Maybe you haven’t heard of the Plum Street School. That…

  • Clark School – circa 1953

    In the early 50’s Carroll High School was built as the new African-American High School in Monroe. The old Monroe Colored High became Clark School for the younger kids. A…

  • The Palace Style Show – 1924

    ULM is the repository of the Griffin photo collection which is well known in Monroe for their flood photos. However, there is another set of photos taken almost 96 years…

  • Isaiah Garrett Donations

    A couple of days before the hurricane, a lady came into the library to meet my boss and I. She had some photos, books and documents she wanted to give…

  • Monroe City High School 1915 Girl Graduate

    This is a great piece of Monroe History! The ULM library has this little gem they have digitized on the Digital Library: https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/ulm-p15140coll27%3A536 It is a yearbook of sorts from…

  • Portraits in the Collection of the Louisiana Law Library

    Did you know that several prominent Monroe names have portraits in the Louisiana Law Library? Some of them have been put online. John Theodore Ludeling, Monroe lawyer and Chief Justice…

  • Monroe Glass Company

    How about this one? https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:w95053200 . I have never seen this before. If Google maps is correct, it is right where Breard comes into Walnut which is the parking lot…

  • The Hollywood Drive-In Restaurant Menu

    The Hollywood was a fixture in the Garden District (903 N. 4th Street) for years (1938 – 1964). The building is still in existence, but is now an Indian food…

  • The Rendezvous Restaurant Menu

    These came into the library by mail Tuesday and I just had to share! They were added to the Digital Database here: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-orv%3A89 and here: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-orv%3A88. I apologize for the…

  • Selman Field Football Program

    I saw this on eBay last week and had to have it! It arrived in the middle of the Hurricane Thursday (GO USPS!). Before I saw this, I never knew…