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Soldiers Welcome: 1940

December 1940. "Construction of Army training camps around Alexandria, Louisiana. East Side Cafe with rooms for rent, 'Soldiers Welcome,' on highway to Camp Livingston." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

December 1940. "Construction of Army training camps around Alexandria, Louisiana. East Side Cafe with rooms for rent, 'Soldiers Welcome,' on highway to Camp Livingston." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

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904 Main Street, Pineville

Alexandria has no Main Street, but Pineville, just across the Red River, does. 904 Main Street lies on Military Highway, as the caption implies, and is now the City Court.

Now Fort Johnson

Those Army training camps around Alexandria eventually consolidated into what was known as Fort Polk, and now known as Fort Johnson. I remember "visiting" Fort Polk when I was on active duty for a training exercise. Sand, pine trees, ticks and chiggers, along with heat and humidity.

Hello, Danny, come and eat with us.

Did the girls from "The Shining" take a job as waitresses?

Alternate-take photobomb

Dick Whitman

or Donald Draper?

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