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Joshua Logan (1908–1988), Broadway director of South Pacific and Mister Roberts; born in Texarkana, Texas, but raised in Shreveport. Dottye Dimple Brown Mason (1920 – 2003), was working as a stewardess when she was noticed for her looks and demeanor, which led to a role in the 1947 Jimmie Davis film "Louisiana."
The Times is a Gannett daily newspaper based in Shreveport, Louisiana.Its distribution area includes 12 parishes in Northwest Louisiana and three counties in East Texas.Its coverage focuses on issues affecting the Shreveport-Bossier market, and includes investigative reporting, community news, arts and entertainment, government, education, sports, business, and religion, along with local ...
Also Mayor of Homer, LA and State Judge in 1861 Jonas Robeson: 1860: 1861: Democratic: Joseph Clinton Beall: 1862: 1863: Democratic: ... List of mayors of Shreveport ...
In poor health, in 2002 the seventy-seven-year-old Franks undertook a liquidation of his horse racing and breeding operations. He died on December 31, 2003, at the WK Pierremont Health Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. In his memory, three racetracks have named races for him. In 1992, Franks was inducted into the Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame ...
Shreveport (/ ˈ ʃ r iː v p ɔːr t / SHREEV-port) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.It is the third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge.The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat. [4]
Dallas-Shreveport railway in operation. [8] [1] Yellow fever outbreak. [1] [11] 1879 – Shreveport Daily Standard newspaper begins publication. [6] 1880 First Presbyterian Church built. [8] Population: 8,009. 1886 – Grand Opera House built. [8] 1887 – Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station built. 1890 Shreveport Library Association formed. [12]
In late 2018, Shreveport was named the "worst place to live in Louisiana" and in 2019, the worst place to start a career. [6] [7] On January 16, 2020, Advanced Aero Services planned to open a facility at Shreveport Regional Airport, with an estimated 1,000 jobs by the end of the decade. [8] [9]
Louisiana Hayride was a radio and later television country music show broadcast from the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, that during its heyday from 1948 to 1960 helped to launch the careers of some of the greatest names in American country and western music.