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Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2014 Sense of Place, Place Attachment, and Rootedness in Four West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bars John Winsor McEwen Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation McEwen, John Winsor, "Sense of Place, Place Attachment, and Rootedness in Four West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bars" (2014). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 1500. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/1500 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please [email protected]. SENSE OF PLACE, PLACE ATTACHMENT, AND ROOTEDNESS IN FOUR WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA BARS A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Geography & Anthropology by John W. McEwen B.S., Jacksonville University, 2005 M.S., Florida State University, 2009 August 2014 Acknowledgements Naturally, there are many people to thank. First, to my parents, thank you for creating me and letting me be the person that I want to be, for letting me make my own decisions and my own mistakes and for loving me. Kent, I think you are the best advisor that I could have had for this program. You were always there when I needed to bounce ideas off of you, and you let me do my own thing once we had everything figured out. Additionally, you helped me get funding for all of my coursework and two graduate assistantships, these skills will be handy to have down the road. To Craig Colten, thank you for putting your trust in me as your editorial assistant at the Geographical Review. I would like to thank my initial two committee members, Dydia DeLyser and Helen Regis, you both provided the necessary insight for me to think more critically about my research and the subject matter. To my two replacement committee members, Mike Pasquier and Kathe Managan, thank you both for your service. Additional thanks go to Annemarie Galeucia and Chris Thompson for all the discussions about theories, ideas, and methods. Meredith, you got me the rest of the way to the end. Thank you for allowing me to join you on the island. Finally and most importantly, my great thanks go to all of the wonderful people that shared their stories with me at Chuck’s Lounge and Charlie’s Lounge in Addis and at Jack’s Place and Sugar Patch Lounge in Port Allen. I don’t want to slight anybody and there are too many people list by name, but, hopefully, you know who you are. ii Table of Contents Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................. ii List of Tables .......................................................................................................................v List of Figures .................................................................................................................... vi Abstract ................................................................................................................................x Chapter 1 Introduction to Research and Outline of the Chapters ........................................1 Chapter 2 Place and Place Relationships in Anthropo-Geographical Literature .................6 Chapter 3 Methods, Fieldwork, and Ethics in the Field ....................................................50 Chapter 4 The History and Population of West Baton Rouge Parish, Port Allen, and Addis .................................................................................................................81 Chapter 5 Bar Typographies, Regionalization of Bar Terms, and Bar Society ...............139 Chapter 6 Biographical and Ethnographic Surveys of Charlie’s Lounge, Chuck’s Lounge, Jack’s Place, and Sugar Patch Lounge .............................................180 Chapter 7 Introduction to Results ....................................................................................251 Chapter 8 Sense of Place..................................................................................................269 Chapter 9 Place Attachment.............................................................................................296 Chapter 10 Rootedness ....................................................................................................329 Chapter 11 Conclusions and Final Thoughts ...................................................................362 References ........................................................................................................................377 Appendix A: Guided Interview Questions for Bar Owners, Bartenders, and Bar Patrons........................................................................................................389 Appendix B: Map and List of West Baton Rouge Parish Bars Both Current and Former ........................................................................................................391 Appendix C: Quotes and Anecdotes on Perceptions of West Baton Rouge Parish, Port Allen, and Addis from Interviews ......................................................393 iii Appendix D: A Complete Accounting of Quotes and Anecdotes on Sense of Place ......400 Appendix E: A Complete Accounting of Quotes and Anecdotes on Place Attachment ..............................................................................................406 Appendix F: A Complete Accounting of Quotes and Anecdotes on Rootedness............415 Vita ...................................................................................................................................426 iv List of Tables 3.1: Dates of fieldwork at the four study sites ...................................................................73 3.2a: Keeping track of hours covered at Charlie’s Lounge ...............................................74 3.2b: Keeping track of hours covered at Sugar Patch Lounge ...........................................75 4.1: Baton Rouge area population growth, 1920–2010 ...................................................114 4.2: Baton Rouge area population density, 1920–2010 ...................................................116 4.3: Workforce commuting data in the Baton Rouge area ...............................................117 4.4: Baton Rouge area age demographics, 1920 & 2010 .................................................119 4.5: Baton Rouge area gender demographics, 1920 & 2010 ...........................................119 4.6: Baton Rouge area race demographics, 1920 & 2010................................................120 7.1: Age distribution of informants ..................................................................................257 7.2: Strength and average length of relationship .............................................................263 B.1: List of extant and former West Baton Rouge Parish bars ........................................392 v List of Figures 2.1: Conceptual diagram of the components of relationships with place specific to the present topic and subject ...............................................................................................7 2.2: Re-creation of Pred’s (1984) diagram of components of place as historically contingent processes ...................................................................................................26 2.3: Re-creation of Scannell and Giffords (2010) conceptualization of the tripartite framework of place attachment ...................................................................................31 2.4: The disparate definitions and conceptual relationships among sense of place, place attachment, and rootedness ................................................................................48 4.1a: Territory of Orleans: counties and parishes, 1805 ....................................................85 4.1b: Present day Louisiana parishes .................................................................................86 4.2: Cinclare Sugar Mill in 2012........................................................................................89 4.3: A train running through Addis during the flood to aid afflicted residents .................91 4.4: West Baton Rouge Parish, its city, two towns, and locations of the four study bars ....................................................................................................................94 4.5a: The first Texas & Pacific railroad depot at Baton Rouge Junction ..........................95 4.5b: Baton Rouge Junction ...............................................................................................96 4.6: The Bank of Addis, now home to the Addis Historical Museum ...............................98 4.7: The namesakes of Port Allen: Henry Watkins Allen and Theophile T. Allain ........100 4.8a: Ferryboat service between Baton Rouge and Port Allen ........................................107 4.8b: The site of the former ferry landing on the levee in downtown Port Allen ............107 4.9: An aerial view of the Port Allen Lock looking to the east