Lost Lake Pontchartrain Resorts & Attractions by Campanella Catherine;

Author:Campanella, Catherine;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2019-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

The caption of this 1930s WPA photograph of Seabrook reads “Negro section of the seawall.” Louisiana Digital Library.

In 1937, the levee board announced that, at the request of the concessionaire, the Seabrook site would be relocated to a permanent location three-fourths of a mile from Shushan Airport with a $168,000 outlay. In 1938, the levee board changed the plan, this time announcing that a new black beach would be built about seven miles down Hayne Boulevard. It would include a tunnel under the railroad tracks, ten acres of land and seventeen thousand trees—all to be ready before the end of the year (it wasn’t). Bids were put out for fill at Pontchartrain Beach and the new black beach, but it wasn’t until several years later that anyone was allowed to swim there.

The 1938 City Guide informed visitors that swimming was allowed all along the Lakeshore drive seawall between West End and Little Woods, but for blacks, only one place was allowed, just west of the Shushan Airport, where the seawall ends (Seabrook).

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