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The Kress store in Baton Rouge was the site of that city's first civil rights sit-in. That event helped save it from demolition 45 years later. In 1964, Genesco, Inc., acquired Kress. The company abandoned its center-city stores and moved to shopping malls. Genesco began liquidating Kress and closing down the Kress stores in 1980.
The Charles McClendon Practice Facility is the practice facility for LSU Tigers football. [1] [2] The facility features the LSU Football Operations Center, the Tigers Indoor Practice Facility and four outdoor 100-yard football practice fields. [3] In 2002, it was named after former LSU head coach and College Football Hall of Fame member ...
Tiger Stadium is an outdoor stadium located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the campus of Louisiana State University. It is the home stadium of the LSU Tigers football team. Prior to 1924, LSU played its home games at State Field, which was located on the old LSU campus in Downtown Baton Rouge. Tiger Stadium opened with a capacity of 12,000 in 1924.
The LSU Football Operations Center, built in 2006, is an all-in-one facility [1] [2] that includes the Tigers locker room, players' lounge, Peterson-Roberts weight room, training room, equipment room, video operations center and coaches offices. [3] [4] [5] The video operations center has editing equipment to review practice and game footage ...
The Pete Maravich Assembly Center is a 13,215-seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The arena opened in 1972. It was originally known as the LSU Assembly Center, but was renamed in honor of Pete Maravich, a Tiger basketball legend, shortly after his death in 1988. Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer signed an act to rename the ...
That store was followed by other St. Tammany Parish locations in Mandeville in 2005 and Slidell in 2006. In 2007, two years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the New Orleans area, Rouses acquired A&P ’s Southern Division of 17 Sav-A-Center stores, effectively doubling the company in size, and giving the company its first stores in ...
U.S. Highway 61/190 Business (internally designated as U.S. Highway 61-X) [2] is a business route of both U.S. Route 61 and U.S. Route 190 in Louisiana that serves as a boulevard into downtown Baton Rouge. It spans 10.89 miles (17.53 km) in a southeast to northwest direction and it is signposted as Business 61/190, generally without directional ...
The new store, located at the Mall of Louisiana, 6401 Bluebonnet Blvd. in Baton Rouge, will be h.h.gregg's third store in Louisiana, as h.h.gregg will also open two stores in the New Orleans area ...