06 P&G Old Hwy 90 - Burned Out Bridge Traditional Cache
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06 P&G Old Hwy 90 - Burned Out Bridge
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This is a short P&G series. Now I say P&G, remember that could have two meanings. Park and Grab or Paddle and Grab. So either way please enjoy yourself. I would also like to ask to CITO while doing these caches.
"Once upon a time – at least in the minds of its inhabitants – the city of Orange extended well across the Sabine River, stretching eastward into the Louisiana marshes almost all the way to Vinton.
Known to all as East Orange, La. – and easily accessible across a Sabine River swing bridge and, a mile or so farther along, a mile-long wooden bridge – that adopted “extension” of town was a virtual playland for the hardworking people of Southeast Texas for much of the first half of the 20 th Century.
As the 1930s Great Depression hit its stride, through the boom years of World War II, and into the early 1950’s, the people of Orange County did what they had to do to find the money, the time and the transportation to cross that Sabine River for a little fun at one or more of the dozens of alcohol-serving dance-halls, showboats, gambling rooms, supper clubs, gumbo huts, and – rumor was – an occasional house of prostitution that sprang up there after U.S. Highway 90 was completed from the end of Green Avenue to Lake Charles. What had begun as a few low-rent night spots, frequented by ferry-riding Texans even before in 1927, suddenly mushroomed into a gambling, dancing, dining and drinking mecca.
By the time the Sabine River swing bridge was removed in the early 1960s. leaving a river levee deadend at the end of Green avenue, East Orange, La., no longer existed.
On June 16, 1973, the famed mile-long bridge was set afire. A few of its charred pilings still are visible to sightseers winding their way down narrow Old Highway 90 to its watery Louisiana end.
Linda B. Farris"
Williams p.167-171
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