West Baton Rouge Museum Podcast

Presented by Dr. John W. McEwen. "Historical Geography of West Baton Rouge Nightlife and Bars” places the parish in a post-Prohibition context from the 1930s to the 21st Century. The talk reviews how bars are regionalized across the United States in the present and how the parish bar landscape compares to the rest of Louisiana. It takes a closer look at how the nightlife landscape of West Baton Rouge has evolved alongside a boom and bust economy and how an interstate highway bridge, built by the United States to connect the country, disconnected West Baton Rouge from its larger neighbor to the east.