Jeanerette Louisiana

Here is a loose collection of shots taken in Jeanerette. Jeanerette is a treasure chest. I was getting tired when I came through and I just shot what I immediately saw. These stores, for the most part, are still in use. I could have walked into any of them and gotten the history. Something I need to do.

Remember, this is just a little preview of an "in progress" construction. You can just give up and go home, take a nap, or go back to work, wasting a perfectly good day by pressing

The museum closes down at 4pm and I just missed it. This poor picture was taken from the street. I will be back. Jeanerette is, as I said, a treasure chest. I am looking forward to opening it.

Jeanerette Louisiana

1950's or before, Service Station, yes service. Stucco with tile roof, what a treasure. It now is a car glass shop.

Looks like a candidate for a lawyer's office? Or, a bondsman.

Beauty Parlor. See the lady cutting hair in the left window. We use our old architecture. Why tear this down and put up a steel building. Makes no sense.

Business downstairs, home upstairs. No commute.

This is the fancy version of a architectual model used throughout this part of south Louisiana. The room, front left was a parlor in the one I've been in. I think they are referred to as "Elizabethans" or an incorporation of that style. Like I know.

This great old foundry dates to the early 1900's. It is still going strong. Want an old sugarcane boiling pot to take home. Air up the tires and pick one up. That's cast iron, as tough and enduring as the people of the area.

At this point you are not that far from the Gulf of Mexico. Since you're already here, why not come with me on down to Burns and get a look at the big water. Cool trip. No, really cool because it's along the bayou and the sea breezes are blowing right at you as you transition from bayou land to swamp land to marsh land to seashore.

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