Old Woodlawn High School (St. George, Louisiana)

The original photos posted on Carbon-izer weren't very good so I enhanced this one a bit. (Picture by author, June 2004).
As Numbered Exits is essentially a spin-off of Carbon-izer, it features a number of stuff that was originally there. One of the pages that never got to be published was on Baton Rouge. I'm still working on bringing a few things from over there to here (of what I wrote, only this is sourced from that page. Unlike Hi Nabor, which wasn't on the way to the house (but ads of which were scattered in the kitchen), Woodlawn High School (the original one) was. (Good thing I didn't publish it due to the whole St. George thing).

Originally located at the corner of Jones Bridge Road and Tiger Bend Road, this high school was a landmark when visiting my uncle's house east of it and a notable landmark on Tiger Bend Road for many years, even after its c. 2001-2002 widening (which ended at around the point of Woodlawn High School). The original school dated back to 1910 as Jones Creek School, renamed Seventh Ward School in 1911, and renamed again as Woodlawn High School around 1949 (presumably becoming high school only by this time).

The physical state of the school at 14939 Tiger Bend Road was deteriorating by the late 1990s (even if that article was sensationalized, it's not a good picture) and in 2003, the new Woodlawn High School opened at 15755 Jefferson Highway, and the old school was torn down in summer 2004. I know because I took pictures and published them on Carbon-izer. Woodlawn Middle School was later built on the site.

Tiger Bend Road itself was also not in the best shape, either, until around 2002-2003, this was Tiger Bend Road between Jefferson Highway and Jones Bridge Road (this is a cut-off portion where you can still see the original road, though the center stripe was removed).

This section is pretty close to my memory since the rest of it looks pretty different...and I don't have access to Baton Rouge newspaper archives.

Former Starbucks (St. George, Louisiana)

Picture sourced from Loopnet
Closed fast food restaurants is something I was always familiar with, by 2008 I could recognize the corpse of, say, a Wendy's, but a closed Starbucks was unheard of. That was the case of the Starbucks Coffee at 9837 Bluebonnet Boulevard which I came across in December 2008 (it had closed a month before). It was only operational for a little over a year, but luckily Starbucks Everywhere got a photo of it (which has proved helpful in research). By 2013 it had reopened as Dunkin' Donuts, but that failed within five years, and in spring 2019 it became Poké City (poke bowls). However, that appears to have been another COVID-19 victim. By early 2022 it became a Domino's, with the drive-through lane now used as a pick-up lane.

Hi Nabor Jones Creek (St. George, Louisiana)

On one of my other sites, Exor's Dungeon (a part of Carbon-izer), I may have mentioned that it was the Baton Rouge area when I visited family and really got acquainted with Nintendo, with stuff like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64 but there was usually still the rest of the house to visit, and that included newspaper circulars. Enter Hi Nabor, one of the Baton Rouge independent grocery stores that still persists today.

I really like these pictures (from Supermarket & Hypermarket Design 2, though I believe the store opened in the early-to-mid 1980s) because the original Hi Nabor logo (or at least as it existed at this point in time) can't be found anywhere; it's the newer one that appeared in the late 2000s that is far more common. So it is nice on the nostalgia end.

The address is 5383 Jones Creek Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70817 and as you can see it has had some updates since Street View started in 2007.

I've listed the city as "St. George" in the title, however, because it was never in Baton Rouge's city limits but is now in the limits of the newly-incorporated St. George.