KPLC TV, LAKE CHARLES
LIVE @ 5 ON THE ROAD IN LAFAYETTE
7NEWS @ 6 LIVE FROM LAFAYETTE
AUGUST 6, 1993

Swamp Pop at Acadian Village;
John Bridges--Top stories: tornadoes in Virginia. Politics, President Clinton. Ensuring drivers have insurance in Lake Charles;
Split-oak basket weaving by Gerladine Robertson. Basket uses then and now. Cutting down White, Red, and Post Oak trees;
Charlie Goulas (blacksmith apprentice) teaching how to make square nails. More farm tools like axes, hoes;
Mild Steel 2,600 degrees by the color, cooling it off, making anything he needs;
Square nail, steel was valuable and hard to come by. Apprentice young boys in the winter;
Part of the Cajun Heritage, knowledge from old people;
Warren Storm singing to commercial;
Commercial Break;
Weather forecast (10:28);
1755-Le Grand Dérangement. Dan Guillot (Lafayette Clerk of Courts) gives the history of Vermilionville(1844)/Lafayette (1884);
Collection of historical pictures of Lafayette--Images de Lafayette (book);
Lafayette growing until it takes up the entire parish;
Commercial Break;
Butchering pigs, cooking cracklins with Rocky Sonnier from Breaux Bridge. Cooking a pig-skin football (17:08);
Seasoning cracklins served with boudin, hog-head cheese, crackers, and a beer;
Pork Fricassee, Barbecue Chicken dinner on Sundays, Fried Turkeys, Poboys, Beignets and coffee (bed and breakfast on the bayou);
Commercial Break;
Lafayette parish the fastest growing parish in the state, economics (22:34);
Acadiana Mall and 104 retail stores;
Oil Industry and oil bust in the 1980s. Diversified into medical care (5 hospitals), USL, and retail stores;
Stock Market Report;
Flip, Flop, and Fly;
Commercial Break;
James Smith--Shrimp Season, Teen Dance at the Lake Charles Civic Center (28:06);
Bobby Scott and LA.Vintage with special guest Warren Storm;
What is Swamp Pop music? Mix of blues and rock and roll, name from England. Antoine 'Fats' Domino. Drums, horns;
My Girl;
Bayou Alleman, Acadian Village;
Commercial Break;
News: Shrimp season--Ken Savoie, Teen Dance at the Lake Charles Civic Center with extra security to handle a larger crowd, New Federal Courthouse in Lake Charles on Broad Street, KPLC Kids--Shalonda (32:15);
Midnight Playboys Special/Lafayette Breakdown--possibly Joe Douglas and the American Cajun Band;
Commercial Break;
Tee Paul Duhon, "The Bone Man," has been playing for about 52-53 years. He learned from an old Black man (38:28);
Thibodeaux House. A.J. LeBlanc talking about girls sleeping in the house and boys sleeping in the attic;
Lafayette Association for Retarted Citizens like Bob and Keith;
Admission to Acadian Village;
Vermilionville (Merlin Fontenot and others playing music in the Performance Center). Visitor center (LCVC) opened in May of 1992;
Bus tour of Lafayette;
Food and music;
Commercial Break;
Weather forecast (46:01);
Commercial Break;
Tom Woodard--Highschool football. District 3-5A new. Speaking to head coaches (52:04);
Commercial Break;
Allen Tumey--Randol's Cajun Restaurant on Kaliste Saloom (Frank Randol) (58:02);
Eating crabs (boiled and softshell), herb garden, shipping food;
Dancing (Jambalaya Cajun Band). Family atmosphere;
Randol's is the Cajun McDonald's;
Wedding at Acadian Village;
Swamp Pop song by Bobby Scott and LA. Vintage with special guest Warren Storm;