I don’t know.
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I seem to recall that, on this day after I went foaming in nearby Beaumont, Texas, The Duke was going to Walmart downtown and dropped me off in downtown Lake Charles with my camera.
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Don’t ask me what these buildings are.
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You can look them up on Google satellite view.
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In retrospect, I am glad that my time in this place was very brief, that I didn’t have to permanently move there.
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This is Ryan Street, a neat area.
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This place is not entirely terrible. It has some cool parts.
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You can see some of the damage from Hurricane Laura.
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I am near the convention center.
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I came to this area in the spring of 2009 to judge projects at a social-studies fair, which I thought was weird, but I appreciated that I was valued enough to be asked to do this.
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Here is the lake.
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That is the infamous dangerous I-10 bridge.
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The lake and the city have identical names.
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I guess that I enjoyed the walk.
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That structure at the left in the below picture is the convention center.
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That’s all. The next day, I would get my first pictures of Port Rail action of a train coming out of the Port Of Lake Charles, as I thought that that would soon become ‘my’ train, and it was, for a few months.
Jim