Tag: Palace Department Store
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Palace Employees, Circa 1935
The photo shows Sig Masur and his employees in front of the Palace Department store. Sig is seated in the chair in the middle.
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The Bernhardt Building in 1948
A Bish Mathis Institute Newsletter from 1948 came across my desk last week and on the front cover was this great photo of downtown Monroe. You can see the side…
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The Palace Going Out of Business Sale
Here is a sad picture. It appeared in the newspaper in mid November of 1982. The Palace was in the middle of it’s going out of business sale.
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Downtown View of DeSiard Street in 1959
To give you an idea of where you are in this photo, the strip of buildings on the right foreground is the area where Rain the Salon is now. The…
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Christmas Fiesta Parade Float – 1939
This first photo shows a float lined up waiting to start the parade. From the angle of the photo, they were parked along Elysian Fields, next to the Old City…
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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…
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Harrison Street
This is a very unique photo, looking straight up Harrison street all the way to Jackson. You can see the Jewish Temple with the ten commandment tablets at the top,…
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lhp%3A1049 Photo of the 200 block of DeSiard street at the corner of Jackson street, decorated for Christmas circa 1940. Notice Liggett’s Drug store on the corner of Jackson and…
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Art Alley in 1927
This was taken from the News-Star building in 1927 by Griffin. At the time, this street was known as 2nd Street, but is now known as Art Alley. Most prominent…
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