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unusual facts about Shreveport, LA



1991 Independence Bowl

The game is played in Shreveport, Louisiana, and this was during the 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial election.

Anita C. Hill

Hill was born in 1951, and as a child attended a Roman Catholic church in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Arthur C. Morgan

John McWilliams Ford, mayor of Shreveport and later commissioner of finance (1930–1965).

B. L. Shaw

He defeated fellow Republican Billy Montgomery in the November 17, 2007, general election to procure the District 37 seat vacated by the term-limited Senator Max T. Malone of Shreveport.

Barrow Peacock

The incumbent B. L. Shaw, a retired educator from Shreveport elected in 2007, decided not to seek a second term.

Bonnie Lou

But in keeping faithful to her Country Music roots, she also became a regular on WLWT's Midwestern Hayride, (a show inspired by the legendary Shreveport-based Louisiana Hayride) until it went off the air in the early 70s.

Carl Brenders

30 of the artist's works were a part of the major retrospective exhibition Artistry in Nature: The Wildlife Paintings of Carl Brenders which opened at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, and Shreveport, Louisiana.

Chevrolet S-10 Blazer

The S-series SUVs, so named because they were based on the Chevrolet S-10 and GMC S-15 pickup trucks, were produced in Pontiac, Michigan; Linden, New Jersey; Moraine, Ohio; Shreveport, Louisiana; and São Paulo, Brazil (the Brazilian version is based on the second-generation S-series; even though production ceased in the U.S., new Blazers are locally produced in Brazil with their own sheetmetal stampings).

Chris Roy, Jr.

Elliott Stonecipher, a political consultant and pollster from Shreveport, noted that redistricting may have strengthened the slim Republican majorities in the legislature.

Continental Express

In the past, Trans-Colorado Airlines of Denver, CO, Royale Airlines of Shreveport, LA, Air New Orleans, of Birmingham, AL, Mid-Pacific Airlines, of Honolulu, HI, City Express, of Toronto, Ontario, Colgan Airways, of Manassas, VA, Southern Jersey Airways, of Atlantic City New Jersey, and Gull Air, of Hyannis, MA, have operated non-jet aircraft using the Continental Express brand name.

Dirtfoot

The recording took place at Wade Correctional Facility in Homer, LA and included video shoots at Citizen National Bank in Bossier City, the Bayliss home in Shreveport, the Voodoo Lounge in downtown Shreveport, and the Berry home in Shreveport.

Dud Lastrapes

Republicans have since served as mayor of Shreveport (Hazel Beard) and Baton Rouge (Bobby R. Simpson), but no Republican has won in New Orleans, Lake Charles, or Monroe or has been directly elected in Alexandria.

Easter weekend 1999 tornado outbreak

At 3:52 PM, a supercell thunderstorm spawned a tornado over Cross Lake, north of Shreveport Regional Airport.

Frank Fulco

Fulco's colleagues included future U.S. Representative and Governor Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III, then of Bossier City, future U.S. District Judge Tom Stagg of Shreveport, and Robert G. Pugh, a Shreveport lawyer who advised three governors and wrote much of the section on local and state government in the Constitution.

George Burton

George A. Burton (born 1926), accountant and last elected finance commissioner of Shreveport, Louisiana

Grand Isle, Louisiana

Grand Isle's main street is the sea-side start of Louisiana Highway 1, that stretches 436.2 miles away to the north-west corner of the state ending near Shreveport, Louisiana.

Greg Barro

Barro graduated from Captain Shreve High School, where one of his classmates was future Shreveport Mayor Keith Hightower.

History of Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is second only to New Orleans among Louisiana cities in the number of historic landmarks.

Isuzu i-Series

It was built at the same plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, which produces the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon, which were in turn developed off the cab and chassis of the Thai-built Isuzu D-Max by GM, Isuzu, and GM do Brasil.

Jimmy Dimos

When Dimos became Speaker, Allen Bares of Lafayette, with Roemer's blessing, began a two-year stint as Senate President, although another candidate, Sydney B. Nelson of Shreveport, had been seeking the position for months by arranging private meetings with colleagues in their Senate districts.

KARD

Between then, ABC programming was available on local cable systems via Alexandria's KLAX-TV and Shreveport's KTBS-TV.

KBXS

KBXS-CA, a low-power television station (channel 50) licensed to serve Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

KSHV

KSHV-TV, a television station (channel 45 analog/44 digital) licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

KTAL-TV

By this time, the Palmer properties had been taken over by Palmer's son-in-law, Walter E. Hussman, Sr. He persuaded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to collapse Texarkana and Shreveport into a single television market.

KXKS

KXKS-FM, a radio station (93.7 FM) licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

Lafayette County, Missouri

Peter Youree, who commissioned the first skyscraper in Shreveport, Louisiana, a 10-storey headquarters building for the Commercial National Bank, of which he was president, was born in Lafayette County in 1843 and grew up there.

Lane Crockett

In 1977, after Attaway had already sold The Journal to businessman and professor Charles T. Beaird, Crockett joined the staff of the Shreveport Times, where he remained until his retirement in 2004.

Larry C. Brewer

In 1968 and 1969, he served as one of two main receivers for Terry Bradshaw, the Shreveport native who subsequently embarked on a highly successful career with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Linus Parker

Rev. Parker served the following appointments, all in Louisiana: Lake Providence (1849), Shreveport (1850–51), Felicity Street, New Orleans (1852–54), Carondelet Street, New Orleans (1855–57), Presiding Elder of the New Orleans District (1858), Felicity Street again (1859–61), Shreveport again (1862–63), the Caldo Circuit (1864–65), and Felicity Street a third time (1866–69).

Louisiana Highway 3132

Louisiana Highway 3132 (LA 3132) is a state highway in Shreveport, Louisiana, named the "Terry Bradshaw Passway" and more commonly known as the Inner Loop Expressway.

Louisiana Tech–Louisiana–Monroe football rivalry

Following the 2012 season, Louisiana–Monroe was invited to play in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, LA.

Matthew Davidson

Other venues where Matthew has performed are The Strand Theatre (Shreveport, Louisiana), Temple Theater (Meridian, Mississippi), Music City Texas Theater in Linden, Texas, The Sucarnochee Revue in Livingston, Alabama, Rock 'N' Bowl, The Ellis Marsalis Center in the Musicians' Village and New Orleans Mint in New Orleans, LA and the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium, home of the famed Louisiana Hayride.

Midwestern Hayride

Inspired by the Shreveport-based Louisiana Hayride, the show was originally called Boone County Jamboree (named for nearby Boone County in Northern Kentucky).

Mooretown, Shreveport, Louisiana

Mooretown (also known as Motown by many of its residents) is a neighborhood within the city limits of Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

Paige Brooks

Other honors that she received during the Miss USA 1998 pageant were being chosen as lead dancer during the opening number and also as a spokesperson for Shreveport, Louisiana during the city’s promo portion of the show.

Richard Zussman

In the summer of 2008, Zussman worked in Washington, D.C. as a television reporter for KTAL in Shreveport, Louisiana covering the Senate race between John Kennedy and incumbent Mary Landrieu.

Sam Little

Had the same number of voters who cast ballots in the attorney general's race also participated in the state representative contest, Quinn could have easily prevailed over Little, considering the 2-1 margin for successful Attorney General candidate Buddy Caldwell of Madison Parish over the Republican Royal Alexander of Shreveport.

Shreve City, Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreve City is the area of Shreveport located between the Shreveport-Barksdale bridge and East Kings highway.

Shreveport Journal

A Webster Parish native reared in Shreveport, Tiner graduated with a journalism degree from Louisiana Tech University.

Shreveport-Bossier Mavericks

In the team's inaugural ABA season in Beaumont the Mustangs proved to be a force to be reckoned with.

Shriners Hospitals for Children

The Shriners had considered closing facilities in Shreveport, Louisiana; Greenville, South Carolina; Erie, Pennsylvania; Spokane, Washington; Springfield, Massachusetts and

Steve Prator

In 1990, Hazel Beard, the first Republican mayor of Shreveport since Reconstruction, named Prator chief of police, an appointive position.

Tillman Franks

In his later years he lived in southwestern Shreveport near his long-term friend Claude King, known for the 1962 hit songs "Wolverton Mountain" and "The Burning of Atlanta", a ballad about the 1864 battle of Atlanta in the American Civil War.

On July 11, 1996, Shreveport observed "Tillman Franks Day", sponsored by radio station KWKH, which originally broadcast the Louisiana Hayride.

Virginia Clinton Kelley

During her training in Shreveport, she met her first husband, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., whom she married in a civil ceremony in 1943, just before he shipped out for World War II military duty.

Virginia deGravelles

Early in 1964, the deGravelles supported Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr., an oilman from Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana, for the governorship.

William Benedict Friend

On 31 August 1979, Pope John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria-Shreveport, and that same day was named bishop of the titular see of Pomaria.

Wisner, Louisiana

One of Swayzer's descendants, Frances Swayzer Conley, an English professor at Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City and a resident of Shreveport, has written a pictorial family history entitled Home To Holly Grove: Cherishing Our Rich Heritage.


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Old River Control Structure

To reduce travel time, Captain Henry M. Shreve, a river engineer and founder of Shreveport, La., dug a canal in 1831 through the neck of Turnbull’s Bend; this canal became known as Shreve's Cut.