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1968 Woolco

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The “new and excitingly wonderful” Woolco Department Store opened its doors on Veterans Highway in 1968 just a block from the double-screen WestGate Drive-In which showed its first films in 1966 at 8843 Veterans Highway.

 

(Courtesy of the Jefferson Parish Yearly Review.) 


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