{"id":359,"date":"2016-02-08T16:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T16:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/?page_id=359"},"modified":"2016-02-19T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:38:09","slug":"downtown-shreveport-demolition-derby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/?page_id=359","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Shreveport Demolition Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Downtown Shreveport Demolition Derby began in earnest in\u00a0 1998.\u00a0Historic buildings were demolished in the 100 block and 500 block of Texas Street, the\u00a0200, 600,\u00a0700 and 800 block of Milam Street, and the 500 block of Common Street in a short period of time.\u00a0 The area around the Long-Allen (Texas Street) Bridge in the 100 block of Texas St was a bustling demolition hub with three storefronts on the north side and nine storefronts on the south side being leveled\u00a0within a three year period.\u00a0Gone were many of the\u00a0venues for the night club scene from the late 1970s&#8211; The\u00a0Mississippi River Company, Dominic&#8217;s, The Fun Shop, The Sports Page,\u00a0the\u00a0Aztec Calendar, and others.\u00a0\u00a0Please see the subpages for\u00a0photographs of those demolitions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Downtown Shreveport Demolition Derby began in earnest in\u00a0 1998.\u00a0Historic buildings were demolished in the 100 block and 500 block of Texas Street, the\u00a0200, 600,\u00a0700 and 800 block of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-359","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}