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Local History: St. Tammany Ice & Manufacturing Company
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Local History: St. Tammany Ice & Manufacturing Company

Back in the days when everyone had “ice boxes” instead of refrigerators, it meant you had to have a steady supply of ice delivered to your door. Since ice doesn’t keep well in the summer, it meant there had to be an ice house in every town, and to make ice, it helped to have electricity

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Local History: The First Theaters In West St. Tammany
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Local History: The First Theaters In West St. Tammany

Plays and performances have always been a part of the west St. Tammany scene, with productions put on at the park pavilion and even in tents on vacant lots. According to a historical plaque in downtown Covington, a “five cent show or electric theater was well patronized” as early as July of 1907…

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