50 Cent G-Unit purchased Buckelew, Curry and Warren’s Warehouse at Spring Street and Travis. Here’s the history.
We are continually amazed at how much history Shreveport has, and while researching one piece of history, another always comes to us, like a giant jigsaw puzzle all coming together.
While studying the map, I spotted a building marked “Buckelew, Curry and Warren’s Warehouse” and I had seen that name before, so I searched again through old photos I’d found in the LSUS Northwest Louisiana Archives and, lo and behold, a photo popped up of eight men standing in front of what looked to us like a saloon.
While this is almost certainly not the exact same building currently located at 401-405 Spring Street, it is hard not to be in awe of how important this location was to early Shreveport.No doubt the building was used as a blacksmith shop, a cotton warehouse (S.J. Zeigler also owned a cotton warehouse), a hardware store, a machine shop, a farm equipment store, and even a drug store (Goode-Cage Drug Company).
We recently took some photos of the building, and although it has seen better days, there is still a lot of history to be found at this location on Spring Street.
When I first found this photo I couldn’t pinpoint the exact location, but now by chance I’ve finally located it in the correct spot in downtown Shreveport. Check out the old plow and horse tack in the photo. I also dug up some old newspaper clippings from the 1890s to accompany the photo.
History Corner is produced in partnership with Mark and Mike Mangum of Twin Blends: Northwest Louisiana History Hunters
