There are a few photos that I didn't take, and those are marked accordingly.
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Covington
Equitable Shipyards 1975
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Abita Springs
1975
Close up
1972
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Barkers Corner
Bennett Bridge Road, a mile west of La. 25, 1975
Bush
Before the new highway continued on to Talisheek
Before the new highway continued on to Talisheek
Charter Oak
Covington
The east entrance on Boston Street in 1975
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Covington High 1976
1976
1972
Claiborne Hill 1975
Above photo from the La. Dept. of Transportation
Photos by Ron Barthet
Claiborne Hill Close Up
St. Paul's School
Parish Fairgrounds around 1975
Parish Fairgrounds around 1980
Below image shows the Parish Fairgrounds prior to 1980. Notice Lyon Elementary at the bottom, the baseball fields still on Columbia Street, the National Guard Armory on the corner, the Covington Community Center facing Columbia St. and the Holy Family Catholic Church on the extreme left edge.
Below is the view looking eastward at the Hwy. 25 and Collins Blvd. intersection in 1975. The big white building is Poole Lumber Co. The
picture is interesting for what it does not show, things that haven't
been built yet: the St. Tammany Parish Jail, the Winn Dixie Supermarket
and shopping center, the Shell Service Station, drug stores, Wendy's,
Burger King, McDonald's, with no residential subdivisions in the far
distance.
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View looking westward on Interstate 12 (under construction) with U.S. 190 running horizontally across the frame, left side going to Mandeville. The Jet Drive In visible on the right.
Photos by Ron Barthet
Dorignac's Farms, Old Military Road, 1975
Evans Creek
Goodbee
View looking southwest at intersection of U.S. 190 and La. 1077, with the "Country Boy One-Stop" grocery store pictured.
Fairhaven Children's Home
Folsom
View looking northeast at the La. 25 and La. 40 intersection. The old town hall is located just above the intersection. It was later moved west one block to the gravel road in the lower lefthand corner.
The Broken R Ranch east of Folsom
Fontainebleau State Park
Fontainebleau Park looking towards causeway over lake
Goose Point
Hickory
Lacombe
Lacombe Marsh 1975
Madisonville
1972
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The old community house can be seen in the above photo
1975
View looking southward towards Lake Pontchartrain
Close up
Wooden Boat Festival
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Marina Beau Chene
Beau Chene Golf Course
Mandeville
Mandeville Harbor
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A little closer
Girod Street (back when it was Gerard St.)
View looking southward at U.S. 190 and Girod Street intersection in 1975. U.S. 190 runs horizontally across picture. Library in upper middle.
Mandeville Junior High
Prestressed Concrete Plant
La. 22 at North Causeway, K-Mart bottom right
Pearl River
Here
is an aerial photograph of Pearl River taken in 1975, with the view
looking west. Pearl River High School is seen in the lower center of the
picture. Click on the image to make it larger.
Downtown Pearl River 1975
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Sixth Ward Junior High
A lock on the Pearl River Navigational Canal
Slidell
Gause Blvd. looking west from I-10 towards Front Street.
Front Street, view looking northward, with train depot near top of frame across from two-story red building (now the Chamber of Commerce).
View looking southward towards Gause Blvd., with the water tower and Slidell High School in upper right.
The Tiger Drive-In Movie Theater
Slidell Northshore
Carr Drive at top
The Village of Sun
Talisheek
Waldheim
Many of the above aerial photographs were taken with the help of Howard Estes, a local pilot who volunteered to take me up in the air to take pictures of St. Tammany Parish every so often. Click on the article below for details:
