Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Monroe Chamber of Commerce

  • Citizenship Award Winner

    From the library’s Junior Chamber of Commerce collection is this little gem of a photo. https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-pho%3A262 The two men are W. Carroll Royce and C.B. “Bert” Braun. However, you may…

  • The 1948 Water Carnival Parade

    This is a photo of a parade entry in Monroe’s Water Carnival Parade held by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1948: https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-pho%3A246 I wish I knew the gentleman driving…

  • 1940 Chamber of Commerce Brag booklet

    The Junior Chamber gave us a lot of their old scrapbooks a few months ago, and this was a pamphlet included in the collection. It details what the Chamber had…