Fans pack CenturyTel Center to see Hannah Montana
 

In one of the biggest concerts ever held at Bossier's CenturyTel Center, 12,500 fans packed in to see Hannah Montana Thursday night.

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Where did all those 12,000 people get tickets? Did they all really pay scalpers for those tickets? That whole deal seemed like a scam to me.

You know it is not the kids that act so bad but the mothers that act like fools trying to be 12 again :rolleyes: it will never happen !! Once the kitten changes to a cougar she will always be a cougar !

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Some of the women here at work took their kids. I was surprised to find out that they served beer there.

I would need more than a beer to be at that concert :rolleyes: I would need ear plugs to boot.

I'm glad to see you were using the sarcasm tag. I don't think ANY female would want to be 12 again. That's those awful braces, scraggly hair and gangly years right before becoming a woman. Now 21 is a different story. :)Hey and believe you me some of us cougars are aging gracefully!;)

I'm sure the beer was being served so the mother's could find the noise more tolerable. Us mother's do alot of unpleasant things for the sake of the kids. I went to see NSync 3 times. It's a good thing I was there as a chaperone too there were a bunch of dirty ole men disguised as bodyguards hitting on these teenaged girls. I saw this first hand in Dallas. Grossed me out!:nono:

That should put you on a faster track to sainthood than even Mother Teresa.

I think you have to take your kids to a Barney concert to qualify for that LOL AHHHHHHHH :eek:

Me... well: Magic School Bus*. Did that show. Wife took 'em to Barney (I was traveling) and they had "back stage passes" since a neighbor was a writer for the show in the early days.

* what others of the same ilk?

Don't forget Sesame Street Live!

Does anyone remember Circus Vargus (as my hubby affectionately called it Circus Bogus)?:rolleyes: It used to be held in the Shreve City parking lot. That was one nasty, smelly show! Whew those tigers were rank! We left at intermission and told our kids it was over never to return again.

Yeah I remember the name circus Vargus but never went to it. Shreve City also had little "mini fairs" with a few wimply rides, but not good ones like the state fair. Didn't do those either. But what I remember the most in Shreve City was the "super slide" which was a huge wavy multi-laned slide. We would slide down on a burlap sack. I was really little so that had to have been 40+ years ago.

You hit a note there rhertz. The old super slide :D Did some major time there. I think it sat where the old Dillards building was and there was Woolco I think :confused: It was in a white building where Burlington coat is located or was located. I think the slide might have been a traveling show :confused:this is all very sketchy I bet some one here will know the facts. That Circus Bargus is no place to take your kids. NASTY !!!

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AND where was Mr. Pokie while you were making sure the children got to do this?????????

He was down the street at the FLOYD show:laugh::laugh::laugh:

There was the superslide at the fairgrounds and something in the back of my memory remembers the one at SCity but then maybe not. If it wasn't where I-S remebers could it have been behind SCity or over on the east side where those buildings were added later? Another one to ask my little bro.

You nailed it pretty well Isaac....

It was right were Dillards used to be. or maybe the Woolco parking lot. Of course a few years after that, super slides were everywhere. Probably at the state fair too. Six flags even had one anchored off the "oil derick" if you remember that tower. But they had the burlap sacks and everything.

OK I-S and rhertz - a few dusted off synapses and that sounds about right.


and on the fairgrounds... your great site here has a pix of it.

And yeah - the Six flags one too - check. Anyone old and feeble enuff to recall the six flags trees with spiral slides inside (also a burlap sack affair).

Oh gosh I remember being so nervous climbing up those steps because the slide was so high! I recall getting airborne too. Does the fair still offer a newer/safer version of that slide?

I wonder if the city/fairgrounds owned that slide as it was a permanent fixture...You'd have to have your folks sign a waiver or something today...

The spot today is empty - just a lot.

Oh cool, yeah the fairgrounds had one that hung around longer than the fair did as I recall... The palm trees do look kind of odd in the picture...

But the recolletion of the spiral slides at six flags blows my mind. I remember but never would have had you not mentioned it. Wasn't that on Skull Island? Anyone remember that big skull? We walked cross a bridge held up with barrels floating on the murky bluegreen (dyed) water... but at night, Skull Island was really lit up and looked really cool!

Skull Island at night was all lit up in red, white and blue it seems! That is a wonderful memory from long ago!

Do you remember the spiral slide inside the hollowed out (fiberglass) tree? They would give you a burlap sack to slide down on... It got dark for a moment. I was always afraid of a pile-up and getting stuck but that never happened. My favorite Six Flags ride would have to be the Spelunkers Cave.

Yes those were simpler times when a slide was all that was needed for entertainment. I do remember the Spilunker's cave and those little guys in there with ice picks and it was COLD too. There was an urban legend later that a snake dropped in somebody's boat while in the cave and bit and killed them during the ride. That kinda put a damper on it for me.:(

Now, now Pocahontas :rolleyes:
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LOL, I bet Mr Pokey had fun after than. I know that I could not resist tickling your leg in the darkness of "The Cave" as it was called. There were always a few girls screaming which adds to the overall excitement of the ride.