Club Leaders in 1972

The following is a list of organizations in the Covington/Mandeville area in 1972 and who served as their contact persons, reprinted from Tammany Touch magazine. Click on the image for a larger view. 

More Old Covington Street Scenes

Here are a few more street scenes from early 1900's Covington. Click on the images to make them larger. 

McLanderson Private Boarding House on 21st Avenue

Columbia Landing

Looking southward on N. New Hampshire Street towards Boston St. in 1907.

At right is the St. Tammany Farmer office (Stable Sign) and beyond that is the newly-built Southern Hotel. 

Parkview Theater, southeast corner of Boston at New Hampshire Streets

To see more photos of Covington streets in the early 1900's, 

CLICK HERE

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway was a tremendous engineering and construction achievement back in the mid-1950's, built mainly by people living in St. Tammany Parish. It was quite a business-booster for real estate companies as well.

 

 

 

Causeway Mandeville Entrance 1950's

According to an informational display at the Mandeville Trailhead museum...

Photographs from Causeway Website

The plant at Mandeville

The following photographs were found in the "First Year Report" on the Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission. 

To view the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" documentary

on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, CLICK HERE.

 

Pouring concrete for the overpass over Monroe Street

For more early pictures of the causeway, CLICK HERE.