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, 

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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

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.

Claiborne Cottage Map

This map of the Claiborne Cottage location is from 1889. Click on the image to make it larger. 

 

Here is the same map shown in comparison with a current map from Google Maps. For the most part, they are similar, except for the road location crossing the Bogue Falaya River coming in from the east.

100 Years Ago This Week

What was going on 100 years ago this week? The following link is provided by the Library of Congress and its Chronicling America service. CLICK HERE for a link to the St. Tammany Farmer edition of February 24, 1917. Some of the headlines are "Farmers Short Courses at Waldheim, Progress and Pilgrim Rest Schools, Mandeville to consider sea wall matter today, and The Dancing School.

Cars

People liked to take pictures of their cars and other vehicles in the early 20th Century. Here are a few of them from various St. Tammany Parish communities. 

Slidell's first motorized school bus, around 1925. The people in the picture are William Welsh, the bus driver, and his children Lenwood and Mary.

A 1898 License Plate

License plate law 1900