Jackson Jambalaya

Jackson Square...is that the one where Zayles used to be? Somebody remind me.

They are only celebrating Jacktown setting new murder numbers and finishing in the top 3 murder towns for 2020. I think Jacktown already has at least one for 2021.

Can you keep a running tote board on how many murders in Jackson in 2021. Kinda like Jerry Lewis did with his telethon. Ed McMahon type guy can give us a Timpani before every new murder is announced.

Good thing those bullets know enough to not come down through some sleeping child's head. Infuriating . . . at least to me. Vermin.

I mentioned an AH-64 Apache attack Helicopter exercise on the last segment.

That shit calls for a A-10 Wart Hog (fully armed) and approaching from Hwy 80 and Ellis Avenue to finally finish what's left of Jackson Square.

Yeah 3:32, Zayles was down there.
They had a very nice movie theater as well.
Hell, the entire shopping center was nice.

But that was long ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Yes

This is in south Jackson off of Terry Road & McDowell

Zayer's was at Jackson Square. It was like Walmart before there was a such a thing. Zales is a jewelry store chain but it was not at Jackson Square.

Jackson Square had Giant Foods (big grocery store), a Hallmark shop, TG & Y (a five and dime), Pasquale's pizza, James Gang Boutique, Eckerd Drugs, Corky's burgers, Zayer's tire and auto repair. Around the corner was a restaurant called Romonoff's. South Jackson was a pretty good place to grow up in the 50's - 70's.

Alta Woods had a nice park. Jackson used to hire a teenager to man each park around town. Jackson would deposit big green wooden boxes in the parks in the summers. The boxes had balls, bats, shuffleboard equipment, etc. Kids would hang out and plays games all day every day. I never saw a single fight.

Jackson used to be a very nice place. I remember a murder a Rankin County and the news dominated the headlines of the CL and Jackson Daily News for days. The murder shocked the town.

I am sure they were shooting blanks.

Used to shop at Zayre in the Jackson Square. A poor man's Kmart. That was a nice area down that way.

Great spot for a cluster bomb and a few napalm strikes.

What word was used earlier, ah yes, Anarchy.

In Jackson on New Years Eve and at least 2 days thereafter gunfire is constant, I mean constant, in certain parts of Jackson at night. There is automatic gunfire as well. The young idiots know that it's wide open and there is no consequence.

At least it isn't machine gun fire like L.A. in the 1990s

Will continue to get worse with no leadership or law enforcement in these areas. You can basically do anything in these areas without anyone caring.

The silence from the black church leaders and the black community leaders is absolutely deafening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the S&H green stamp place used to be over there. My mom used to let me keep them all.

Times, they have a changed.

Jackson Square, Westland Plaza, Mart 51, Meadowbrook Shopping Center, the ORIGINAL highway 80 as it was with all of the neon lights. Gosh how I wish we could go back to simpler times. Does anyone have any photos of these places? If you are part of the generations that grew up during that heyday you won’t recognize it now from what it was then. Western Auto at Jackson Square is where you could go get accessories for your bikes. I remember someone used to make a small generator that attached to your bike frame and it had a wheel that came in contact with your tire and would generate power for a headlamp. Dang it! I miss those days and I miss the Sears on State Street and METRO CENTER before it became a Dead zone. What have we become? I remember people used to decorate more at Christmas then than they do now and they really appreciated life more.

When I was a child, we would go to Wilson’s on Thanksgiving afternoon. It was the only store open. Does anyone remember where it was?

Wilson's was in Deville Plaza where Stein Mart is/was, between the Deville Cinema and Ossie's BarBQ (now a CSpire store). There may have been another Wilson's, but that's the one I rode my bike to in my elementary school days.

Jacksonian Plaza had Miller's which became Howard Brothers. They were where Books a Million is.

I live in Texas now, but was home for the holidays. I don't know how Jackson is holding on. I rode through Leftover and the streets are damn near gravel. The city is full of payday loans and pawn shops. And now you have thugs running wild in the city, blocking interstates and shooting up public spaces, and the police are doing nothing.

Antar promised the most radical city in America. This is what it looks like.

When you say things like "at least it isn't machine gun fire like L.A. in the 1990s", you know your city is lost.

What's next? "At least it's not as bad as Beirut in the 1980s"?

And don't expect much from the black church leaders - the ones who were quite vocal last year during all the BLM activity. The only people to blame here don't have the proper skin color to up those tax free donations.

What do you guys expect black church leaders to do? What power do they hold? What power do your non-black church leaders really hold? Do you think these are kids that attend church, or even their parents? What did white church leaders do during the 1700's - today in this country regarding any issues? Where are they during this issue? Aren't we all God's children?

Honestly, most churches are nothing more than new-aged country clubs these days. It is funny how these churches sit on mountains of money and do all of these missionary trips to foreign countries. How about doing some missionary work in your own backyard?

"What did white church leaders do during the 1700's"

Half of em' preached against the evils of slavery every Sunday morning.

But I'm sure the "woke"/"cancel culture" crowd is toppling their statues as well.