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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 3380913, member: 622"] I was stationed there when they announced the casinos would be allowed. Not that it was much better before the casinos. They sold the casinos as being river boats going up and down the Red River (yes, that same Red River which is the subject of the UT-OU Red River Rivalry), but that was a pie-in-the-sky sales pitch. In Shreveport, an adult can walk through the river without going under, very wide, very shallow. They would have had to dredge a channel for the river boats to travel up and down, it was never going to happen. Anyway, I had friends in the ares until about 10 years ago and it was worse than when I was there. Your assessment was what I saw. Still, one of my daughters was born there, so they have that going for them. [/QUOTE]