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Photograph by Fonville Winans |
My name is Genevieve Fleniken Glazer. I was born and raised
here in Grosse Tete. January 24th, 1931 and I've here in this
area ever since. Right now I am at the Midway Grocery Store,
which my daddy had for years and the building seems to be between
a 100 and a 125 years old and has always been a general store.
Years ago the groceries and things were delivered by the Bayou
(Grosse Tete) from the ferry boat, it might have been called
some other kind of boat.
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Watercolor by Ed Barnes
Baton Rouge, La. |
The captain's name was Charlie, Captain
Charlie. When he would come up the bayou he would sound his
whistle and the people in the area, the stores and all, which,
at that time, I think there was about either five or seven stores,
they would go to the bayou bank and they would get groceries
off in bulk manner and haul it to the store with buggies and
the mules or horses, whatever.
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