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Household Hints: KVOL Serving Southwest Louisiana
2013.0217
KVOL “1340 on your dial,” the “Pioneer Radio Voice of Southwest Louisiana,” has been operating in Lafayette since 1935, becoming an NBC affiliate in 1944 and expanding as an FM station in 1949. A recently donated promotional booklet, printed sometime between 1949 and the early 1950s, was intended for the housewife, with sections titled “Make It Yourself. . . Remake It. . . Make It Do,” “How to Master Your Mister,” and “It’s Not What You Do But the Way That You Do It.”
The back cover lists a diverse slate of programming, featuring such favorites as Your Hit Parade (Saturdays, 8 p.m.), This Is Your Life (Wednesdays, 7 p.m.), and Theatre Guild on the Air (Sundays, 7:30 p.m.). —PAMELA D. ARCENEAUX
United States, Exhibiting the Railroads & Canals
2014.0031
An engraved map by an unknown cartographer displays the nation east of the Mississippi River in the early 19th century, when canals were important inland routes and railroads were in their infancy. The map appeared in A Comprehensive Atlas: Geographic, Historical and Commercial, compiled by Thomas G. Bradford and published in 1835, and shows two completed rail lines in Louisiana. The West Feliciana Railroad opened in 1835, connecting plantation lands between Woodville, Mississippi, and St. Francisville, Louisiana. Eventually absorbed by the Illinois Central line, it was abandoned circa 1978.
The Pontchartrain Railroad opened in 1831 as one of the first in the country. About five miles long, it followed today’s Elysian Fields Avenue from the Mississippi River to Milneburg, on Lake Pontchartrain, which was then a major shipping route.
Also shown on the map is the Carondelet Canal, also called Old Basin, which opened in 1796 between Bayou St. John and Basin Street and served shipping from the North Shore and the Gulf Coast. Both canal and railroad outlived their economic usefulness early in the 20th century. The canal was filled in beginning in 1927, while the train, pulled by an old steam locomotive nicknamed Smokey Mary, ended its run in :*■ 1930s. —JOHN T. MAGILL
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