Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: South Grand Street

  • Grammont and South Grand Near the Turn of the Last Century

    I love this photo postcard! What you are looking at is the corner of Grammont and South Grand Streets, taken from the top of the City Hall bell tower. On…

  • 1927 Flood Picture at Riverview Cemetery

    The photographer (Griffin?) took the shot standing at the entrance of Riverview Cemetery looking down South Grand Street during the 1927 flood. Fox Poultry Farms is on the right. Newspaper…

  • Baer Brothers Store, circa 1890

    This newspaper clipping shows the Baer building, on South Grand Street around the turn of the century. the site is now the location of a parking garage.

  • South Grand Street Covered in Snow, circa 1870.

    The above photo has been reproduced several times through the years. I don’t know where the original is, or even if it is still in existence. According to the caption,…

  • A Photographer’s View of Monroe in the 1980’s

    The Library of Congress has a collection of photographs taken by John Margolis. Among his stops in 1982 was Monroe. I found this particular photo: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mrg.04492/ interesting, since the building…

  • Another Lovers Lane Postcard

    There seems to be at least a half dozen photo postcards of Lovers Lane! Those power lines are so low in this photo! I wonder if they are for the…

  • The Elks Club Lodge – 1908

    A week ago today, I was going to bid on the below rare postcard so that it could be added to the library’s collection. Unfortunately, the bidding got too rich…

  • Elk’s Club Interior

    Here is another very rare postcard of Monroe, showing the interior of the Elks Club House. It was located at 200 South Grand Street at the corner of Grammont. The…

  • Western Union Messenger Boys

    This is one of the treasures we got last week! https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-pho%3A485 This shows a line of messenger boys in front of the old Western Union in the 1920s. Western Union…

  • Lovers Lane

    I bought this one off of Ebay. The note on the back is quite touching!