The Louisiana Senate approves the county’s most restrictive abortion bill. Pickets and protests are commonplace at area clinics. Patients have to break through human chains (of children as well as adults) to receive services, often in the glare of the media as well.

David Duke battles J. Bennett Johnston for Senate seat.

Lock and Dam No. 4 and No. 5 begin construction.

Jimmy Harris is embroiled in a fight to open his bed and breakfast in a 90-yearold home on historic Fair eld Avenue.

Maggie Warwick, a Hayride personality from the past, works tirelessly to revive the glory that gave Elvis his start and was stage to some of the biggest names in country music.

Radio personality B.B.(Bird Brain) Davis gathers listeners and fans with his banter.

The Artists Co-op at Mall St.

Vincent celebrates its first-year anniversary.

Who hasn’t dropped in at George’s Grill for home cookin’ and received the warm southern welcome of waitress Jean Byrd. She’s apt to know your name and how you like your burger.

Nancy Cruzan is still alive in a vegetative state and a “Living Will” is published in The Forum for readers’ consideration and use.

Small cars are easily lost to potholes, never to be seen again.

Jodie’s Place was the hot spot for events and creative party-giving.

Cedar Grove erupts in riot. Stores are burned and we are national news.

Drive-by shootings are routine, and Shreveport is perceived as a frightening, crime-ridden city of outsiders.

Hazel Beard is elected Shreveport’s first woman mayor over candidate C.O. Simpkins.

Rush Limbaugh is the loudmouth of the day.

Earl K. Long is resurrected from the dead as movie production begins on “Blaze,” the story of the stripper and the earl, Starring Paul Newman.

Charles Gruber is chief of police, and traffic searches and road-blocks are routine.

VIPs are busted for DWI just like everybody else.

The community pokes fun at the chief for taking a controversial leak in the ladies’ room at a local pub.

The region sees its first heart transplant at Willis-Knighton under the hands of Dr. Mohsin Hakim.

Locally-owned Shreveport Refrigeration battles billion-dollar electronics giant Highland Superstores for dominance in local market ... and wins. Shreveport- Bossier City has the highest unemployment rate of the major cities in the state.

In an agreement with The Times, the 96-yearold Shreveport Journal agrees to cease publication of its afternoon daily in March of ’91.

The Red River Rally Hot Air Balloon Festival blows into town as the area’s hottest new event.

Line Avenue Merchants Association forms to market the street as a shopping destination and to combat rampant crime.