Welcome to Lakeside Heights, 2035 A.D.
Most of you know that I spend a good deal of time trying to redevelop Cedar Grove, and by my actions one could assume that I resided there a lifetime, but only four years of my K-12 years were spent there, as we lived in a number of neighborhoods. Some might take offense to such nomadic activity, but it prepared me to be able to meet new people and adjust to new situations and was pretty helpful once I enlisted in the U.S.A,F. Although technically I lived in AIIendale (Calcotte Alley) up near Cahn Electric, I attended schools (west Shreveport, J.S. Clark, Central) in Lakeside. Coming from Pelican, La., I thought the people in Lakeside were the very best of what Shreveport had to offer African Americans, a lively business community, Booker T. Washington H.S., and a thriving professional class. And once they built Lakeside Acres, you knew they were headed for grandeur. I say African American, but Lakeside had many cultures, with a large contingency of Creoles.
