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HEALTH TIPS & HOME REMEDIES
FROM FAIR PARK ALUMNI
 HIP PAIN - Mix one package (envelope) of Certo with 64 ozs. of purple grape juice (Welch regular or light). Drink 8 ozs. daily.COLDS & CONGESTION - Get a bottle of Olive Leaf capsules (vitamin or health-food store). Take one daily as a preventative. Get Olive Leave throat spray and nasal spray for active colds.COLDS & CONGESTION - Rub Vick's Vapo Rub into the soles of the feet and put on socks prior to going to bed. Also, put the rub onto the soles of the feet daily before putting on your socks and shoes.ARTHRITIS - Drink two or three 4 oz. glasses of Kombucha tea daily, or use Kombucha drops. (See http://www.cajunernie.com/ for information on brewing the tea or purchasing the drops). NIGHT LEG CRAMPS - Place a bar of soap under the sheet on which you sleep, around the calf-area.TOE-NAIL FUNGUS - Apply Vick's Vapo Rub on the infected toe(s) each day.STROKE SYMPTOMS -   HEART DISEASE - Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. SORE THROAT - Peel a small onion and cut it into rings. Place them in a jar and cover with honey overnight. The honey absorbs the onion juice (onions are left wrinkled up). Pour the liquid into a bottle and take a tablespoon each time you have a raspy or sore throat. Taste awful but it works.Contribute Your Health Tips
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| As you can see this is a Jukebox; but it is no ordinary jukebox. It will play all of your favorite songs from 1950 through 1984. Each year has a scroll or drop down box that shows all the great songs for that year. Most years have over 40 songs. Once you click on a song it will play and when it finishes it automatically plays the next song in the list and continues until it has played all the songs.
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| Top 30 Recordings of 1953 * indicates a #1 song during the year
*1 THE SONG FROM "MOULIN ROUGE" - Percy Faith and Orchestra*2 VAYA CON DIOS (May God Be With You) - Les Paul and Mary Ford*3 THE DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW - Patti Page*4 I'M WALKING BEHIND YOU - Eddie Fisher5 YOU YOU YOU -The Ames Brothers*6 TILL I WALTZ AGAIN WITH YOU - Teresa Brewer7 APRIL IN PORTUGAL - Les Baxter and His Orchestra8 NO OTHER LOVE - Perry Como*9 DON'T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES - Perry Como10 I BELIEVE - Frankie Laine11 OH - Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra12 EBB TIDE - Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra13 PRETEND - Nat King Cole*14 RAGS TO RICHES - Tony Bennett15 RUBY - Richard Hayman and His Orchestra*16 ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGONET - Stan Freburg17 P.S. I LOVE YOU - The Hilltoppers Featuring Jimmy Sacca18 TELL ME YOU'RE MINE - The Gaylords19 EH, CUMPARI - Julius LaRosa20 ANNA - Silvano Mangano21 SAY YOU'RE MINE AGAIN - Perry Como22 DRAGNET - Ray Anthony and His Orchestra23 TELL ME A STORY - Jimmy Boyd - Frankie Laine24 CRYING IN THE CHAPEL - June Valli*25 WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME - Joni James26 YOUR CHEATIN' HEART - Joni James27 (Terry's Theme From) "LIMELIGHT" - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra28 WITH THESE HANDS - Eddie Fisher29 C'EST SI BON (It's So Good) - Eartha Kitt30 HAVE YOU HEARD - Joni James |
| Missing People from the Class of '53. Where Are They?
(Last Name From Yearbook Appears First)
 Adams, Tommy Bates, Elaine Brown, David Clyde Culbertson, Sammy Dalme, Marie Edgar, Shirley Ethredge, Alice (Davenport) Faust, Jane Goodman, Glenda (Myers) Guillory, Doris Guinter, Sandra Hebert, Gaynell Joseph Hendrix, Alan Henry, Loretta Hernandez, Elmer Eugene Jackson, Karen Eleanor James, Carol Jean (Darling) Leonard, Edith (Clarence Walther) Malin, Charles Maricelli, Jo Ann McNichol, Roland D. Myers, Gloria Dean Norsworthy, Darrell Norton, Verda Mae (Dentzler) Novak, Jr., E. W. “Bill” Roberts, Evelyn Modene Robinson, James Rosada, Rita Martha Sandlin, Rochelle (Dill) Scott, Janice Lee Turner, Wm. T. (Billy) Wade, Jack Williams, Thomas H. Wright, Harold |
| Class of 1953 Reunion Planning Committee (Click underlined name to send an e-mail.)
Donald Ray Cooper (PresidentDale LaGrone (Vice President)Jimmy Stockard (Secretary)Bonnie Spence King (Treasurer)Faye Dunn CunninghamPaxton Dickson Mary George Stone NugentMary Black Sanders |
LinksHistoric Shreveport
History of Queensborough
One of Shreveport's historic older neighborhoods is the Queensborough area, which came into being at the end of the nineteenth century. A neighborhood of tree-lined streets, frame houses ranging from small bungalows to spacious two story homes with wide porches, Queensborough lies within close proximity to the Fair Grounds and the medical district orbiting Willis-Knighton Medical Center. And, although the Queensborough area saw a great deal of blight during the late twentieth century, evidence of its once-proud character still shows through in many places. In fact, in some places, Queensborough is seeing a new revitalization.
Although sections of it are older, Queensborough as a distinct neighborhood really dates from the development of a suburban subdivision called Virginia Place on what was then the far western edge of Shreveport in 1901. Virginia Place was the creation of George Marion Hearne (1861-1956), a local merchant and founder (in 1902) of Hearne's Dry Goods, a longtime downtown department store.
Mr. Hearne named several of the streets in Virginia Place for his relatives. Virginia Avenue, like Virginia Place itself, was probably named for his mother, Virginia Ewing Greer (1824-1899). Marion, Mr. Hearne's middle name, was a family name (a daughter was named Marion Virginia also) as was Leslie, the name of one of Mr. Hearne's nieces. Possibly Marion Street was named for Marion Greer, Mr. Hearne's uncle, or for the daughter mentioned above, or perhaps both. Undoubtedly Bessie Street is named for a relative as well, possibly Hearne's sister (he was one of 12 children) Susan Elizabeth, who died at the age of three many years before the subdivision was laid out. Another Hearne ancestral name is found is Judson Street – another of George Hearne's sisters was Cordelia Judson Hearne; she also died in childhood.
It is often assumed that Virginia Avenue was simply one of those Queensborough streets named for states of the union (such as Kentucky Ave., Arkansas Street, Michigan Blvd., etc.), but these were developed much later and by other developers, with the exceptions of Alabama and Missouri Avenues, which were named for locales from which the Hearnes had migrated to Louisiana. These streets were the first to start the trend of naming Queensborough streets for states of the union. Incidentally, the portion of Virginia Avenue bisecting the Willis-Knighton property was renamed to honor Dr. Albert Bicknell several years ago. The late Dr. Bicknell was a prominent physician closely associated with the history and development of that medical center, now the largest in the state of Louisiana.
It has also been assumed that Hearne Avenue was named for George Marion Hearne, who developed this part of the town. However it appears that George Marion Hearne actually named the street himself in honor of his father, George Hearne (1819-1862), a Bossier Parish Confederate soldier who died during the Civil War. Little did Mr. Hearne know when he named his original three block-long street in 1901 that it would be expanded and extended time and again and would today be one of the major thoroughfares of Shreveport.
Soon after Hearne's development others followed suit and a number of adjacent subdivisions grew up around Virginia Place, expanding into what by 1905 had become known (for reasons still somewhat unclear) as Queensborough. Among the names of these subdivisions are Murray Park, Brunswick Grove, Edgewood, Queensborough Annex, Winsborough, Union Square, Bellaire, Rose Hill, and Schumpert Park. Dr. T. E. Schumpert, founder of what is now the Christus-Schumpert Medical Center, owned and developed a sizeable amount of real-estate in Queensborough prior to his death in 1908. Ironically, his own home stood at the northwest corner of Greenwood Road and Portland Avenue, part of the site of Willis-Knighton Medical Center today. Much of the land that became Queensborough was owned by Sanford Brown McCutchen, whose name is reflected (though misspelled) in McCutcheon Street today. Another major landowner was J. N. Fetzer, who possessed a large estate at the northeast corner of Exposition and Lakeshore. Lakeshore itself was long known as Fetzer Avenue, its name being changed in the 1930s (though a small arm of the old street, north of Greenwood Road and west of Jewella, still bears the Fetzer name).
Woodward Street is named for J. M. Woodward and Bell Street (on the edge of the Queensborough and West End neighborhoods) for Judge Thomas Fletcher Bell. Both were major landowners in the Queensborough and West End areas. Boss Street, off Greenwood Road, is named for J. H. Boss, who owned much of the land in that area, close to where Fair Park High School was built in 1928-29. Another area school is Queensborough elementary, which opened in 1911. It was expanded in 1924 and again in 1937. In 1987 the original school building burned but the school was reopened using its later buildings in 1989.
Queensborough is dotted with fine church buildings as well. The old home of Mangum Memorial Methodist Church, a beautiful Gothic building on Missouri Avenue at Stonewall Street now houses the Zion Baptist Church. Down the street, at Missouri and Spruce, the old Queensborough Masonic Hall is also owned by Zion Baptist Church. Westminster Presbyterian Church was once housed in a building now owned by Willis-Knighton at Missouri and Hardy. A Prince Hall Masonic Lodge (Universal Grand Lodge of the State of Louisiana) is now located in the old home of St. Matthias Episcopal Church on Exposition between Spruce and Hardy Streets.
St. Theresa's Catholic Church at Portland and Bessie is gone, though the school building behind it is now part of the Willis-Knighton complex. Vanished also is the old First Seventh Day Adventist Church, which stood at Virginia and Bessie (much of Bessie and Leslie Streets, as well as the south end of Virginia Avenue have vanished beneath Willis Knighton Medical Center and its adjacent parking areas). Queensborough Baptist Church's old home (Missouri at West College) is now the Job Corps Center and the Lakeshore Church of Christ (3220 Lakeshore) is now the Sunrise Baptist Church. The old Portland Avenue Church of Christ, later West view Christian Church, now houses the Jewel Street Baptist Church, which moved there some time ago from Jewel Street in Allendale, but did not change its name; it is located at Darien and Portland Streets.
Much has changed in Queensborough over the years but the neighborhood remains largely intact. It is one of Shreveport's larger old neighborhoods yet today, despite its sprawling size and historical importance, sometimes is among the city’s most overlooked. It is an area rich in history and one full of rich and largely untapped potential for revitalization.
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