Posted on 05/30/2013 9:54:28 AM PDT by prplhze2000
My daddy was 22 when this was filmed. I would love to go through the “vault” at WAPT and WJTV and WLBT. I would spend hours looking through videos.
My grandparents were in their teens and early/mid 20’s when that was taken. One grandfather was working in Detroit at the time. Videos from there might be instructive as well. And the same group was NOT denied access to public venues in Detroit. Same outcome though.
I never got to enjoy that lake either. If I hadn’t been close to a family that owned a business downtown, I doubt I would have ever gone there. I used to go eat with my friend’s family at The Elite. I would love to go there now. One of the last times I went there, I was sitting in a booth with my mother. In walked a group of 6 or so IRS agents, one of whom was black. When some others behind them in line were seated before they were, the black IRS agent started blathering about racism and about audits and that sort of thing. The ones seated before their group were couples. I was young and ignorant about federal government employees on power trips and on the constant need to be a victim of some -ism.
What a graphic comparison to where Jackson is now. That swimming lake is an overgrown cesspool now next to what could be called our “zoo”. Or should I say “their” we left Jackson after two break ins and a car theft...
Great song.
I had to double-check to make sure I didn’t have a misheard lyric for all these years. I always thought it said “...give us the greens of summers,” and it does, according to Paul Simon’s site: http://www.paulsimon.com/us/music/paul-simons-concert-park-august-15-1991/kodachrome
Vintage 1938 Jackson MS PING!
Younger people may find this hard to fathom but the pre-1960s New Orleans used to also be a wonderful place. It was clean, well-kept and very safe. I'm not just referring to the Quarter but the whole area -- Canal Street, Poydras and into the Central Business District. Department stores, specialty shops and movie theaters were in abundance. Then during the JFK and LBJ era, the thug element was allowed free reign and the New Orleans that I recall so fondly was lost forever.
Its really too bad to learn you think like that
Sux
More Kodachrome memories.
Downtown Pittsburgh on VE Day. 5/8/1945
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc5gHEyGdw8
My in-laws have color home movies they shot in Detroit in 1960. Likewise a bustling, happening place at the time.
Bravo! Wonderful! V.E. Day!
In all fairness, look who his mayor is. His property taxes might go up $1M+ if he didn’t think that way.
I await property tax reassessments in Eastover and NE Jackson with great curiosity. And access to voting precincts in ‘14. And road repair issues. And water and sewer issues.
Not to mention police and fire protection.
Wow! I really enjoyed the video. As a 6 year old in 1964, my mother dropped me off at the downtown Jackson Greyhound station, I’d walk the 2 blocks to the Lamar to catch the Disney movies, then wait at the Hollywood Sweet Shop till she returned. I haven’t thought of that in years. I live in the burbs now, haven’t been downtown in ages...
Bookmark for later..
As is the case now, because it’s being destroyed.
That post was nearly ver batim what kingfish wrote on his blog
This poster runs a sweet thread here to lecture us about our hometown...how thoughtful....and young and naive in a Stockett screachy sort of way
Curious....kingfish is a lib beloved by Fondrenistas
Why post here?
Major irony....Fondren is now associated with Jax arty fatty lib
Yet last reigning Fodren male namesake was a pal of mine....and very right wing gun loving sort
Squirrel....that was his nick in 70s
I’m amazed at the power of segregation. It’s been over for fifty years and still apparently has the power to destroy a city.
FIFTY YEARS LATER.
Explain Detroit. No segregation. Same outcome.
Segregation seems to be a non relevant variable in urban decay.
Where are all the bums...uh, I mean homeless.
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