{"id":84,"date":"2015-04-15T19:53:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/?p=84"},"modified":"2015-04-15T19:53:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:53:04","slug":"save-the-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Save The Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_167\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a name=\"imageclose-85\"><div class=\"lb-album\"><a href=\"#image-85\"><img src=\"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_79461-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by: W. Conway Link\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-167\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/div>              \r\n<a href=\"#imageclose-85\" class=\"css3lightbox-close\">\r\n\t\t\t\t   <div class=\"lb-overlay\" id=\"image-85\">\r\n                   <img src=\"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_79461.jpg\" alt=\"image-85\">\r\n                   <\/div><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: W. Conway Link 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Arlington, built in 1915 and\u00a0located at 700 Cotton St.,\u00a0is one of the oldest remaining Railroad Hotels in downtown Shreveport.\u00a0Legends give it notoriety with underground tunnels linking it to the Strand Theater\u00a0for a\u00a0rendezvous with prohibition liquor\u00a0and prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>It is in immediate need of restoration before it becomes another parking space! Years of not being occupied negate unwanted neglect and more occasion for decay, trespassing and vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_166\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a name=\"imageclose-86\"><div class=\"lb-album\"><a href=\"#image-86\"><img src=\"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_79491-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: W. Conway Link\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-166\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/div>              \r\n<a href=\"#imageclose-86\" class=\"css3lightbox-close\">\r\n\t\t\t\t   <div class=\"lb-overlay\" id=\"image-86\">\r\n                   <img src=\"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_79491.jpg\" alt=\"image-86\">\r\n                   <\/div><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: W. Conway Link 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There\u00a0are store front\/restaurant opportunities\u00a0on the north to south side that runs along Louisiana Ave. Once inhabited\u00a0as a restaurant, shops\u00a0and a prosperous nightclub.\u00a0This could be a pioneering project to redeveloping a prime location in the\u00a0downtown area.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the August 2014\u00a0link below for more information from Ms. Liz Swaine,\u00a0current Director of the Downtown Development Authority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theforumnews.com\/article-991-arlington-hotel.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/theforumnews.com\/article-991-arlington-hotel.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 The Arlington, built in 1915 and\u00a0located at 700 Cotton St.,\u00a0is one of the oldest remaining Railroad Hotels in downtown Shreveport.\u00a0Legends give it notoriety with underground tunnels linking it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storieseditorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicshreveport.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}