Jackson Jambalaya

Looks like a group of people having a good time. No guns, no fighting...what is the purpose of posting this?

“We must keep our streets, neighborhoods and historic areas clean and pristine,”

to 9:41...cause thats very rare .

What's wrong with showing people having a good time? So negative.

@9:41 what is the purpose of complaining about folks having a good time?

I feel sad sometimes that I was a little underage kid who never got to experience The Dock. I remember older kids, seniors when I was a freshman in high school, who went! It seemed like an epic place. I wonder if that little section of the reservoir will ever be developed. A history of the Harbor Walk project would be neat to learn.

"A history of the Harbor Walk project would be neat to learn."

Do a search on this site for "Harbor Walk" and enjoy.

"A history of the Harbor Walk project would be neat to learn."

The developer spent a lot of money, bought and tore down a lot of piers including The Dock, fleeced a lot of investors and then I think he got old or sick and died.

Cha-ching, the soda can lottery grift.

No, he didn't fleece anyone. He overpromised a pie in the sky development. Tore the Dock down, built new slips. He made enough money off the slip rentals to pay the lease, but not enough to develop anything.

Speaking of the Dock, does anyone know if the guy who kicked Oogie (can only remember his nickname) to death there is still serving time?

Barron Goff, he's doing life at CMCF.

Robert Herman "Oogie" Carson JR's obituary: https://clarionledger.newspapers.com/article/clarion-ledger-obituary-for-robert-herma/82902674/

Not quite like the Dock. Nobody was packing or twerking back then. Just a matter of time before shots are fired!

22:49......his name was Barry Goff. Colonel Barron Goff was his father, a Army aviator who flew many missions into the battle Ia Drang valley, Nov '65 as a Huey pilot. His son Barry tarnished his name several times when arrested in & out of state.

2:49, 2:30 here; thanks for the name. I googled it and a JJ post from 2009 came up with all the details. Oogie was a fixture at Delta State women’s basketball games back in the mid-70s during their run of national championships. Alway carrying a clipboard so he could take notes on the game. Small in stature, he was harmless and kept to himself. I can’t imagine the level of depravity required to kill someone like that. It’s comforting to know Goff is still safely locked away.

I grew up in Cleveland and went to most of the DSU football games. Oogie was a fixture there, walking back and forth, mumbling and writing notes in his program. We kids would ask him a stat about the game from time to time and were amazed he knew it. I was very sad to learn that he had died.

Yes it was sad with the passing of Oogie. Unfortunate to see the demise of The Dock. However, after a Saturday "Day camp" on the edge of reservoir just north of the overlook on the Natchez Trace, I'll tell you this: the kids with boats are getting together at the overlook and having a good time just like the old days of The Dock.

A little too loud for my liking. I will stick with Cazadores and El Torrero.

Grew up with Oogie in Belzoni. I think he was what would be diagnosed today as functionally autistic. Really smart. When I saw John Grisham's movie Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman's character reminded me of Oogie. He was outgoing and gentle -- never a threat to anyone. It is my sincere hope that his murderer really does serve the rest of his life in prison. Probably won't though.

to 11;11....you want a history of the harbor walk development????????? permit me , ...........the harbor walk was one of the biggest real estate scams ever perpetrated in central mississippi. fortunately for a lot of idiot investors , it got exposed for the scam it was before it ever got off the ground. you didn't know that?????? now you know.

GOFF used to show how tough he was every friday night. now he has to show how tough he is everyday. thank former madison county DA rick mitchell for putting his ass away.

Kingfish's selective memory is showing again. The developer may or may not have fleeced anybody - that won't ever be known. But he did act as king telling people (including me) that we could not fish or be present in the water in that area, having come from the larger reservoir area.

He was a boisterous bully who threatened to physically harm, for example, an old black man who was can-pole fishing and threatening to jail anybody who came near the water near the site of the old Dock.

He even rented sleeping quarters to a derelict, transient on a boat he (the developer) did not own. The man was a tyrant who, on many occasions, deserved the ass-whipping he never got. And his son later threatened to whip anybody who spoke ill of the old man.

A short Google refresher on the Oogie murder turned up info on a lawsuit filed by Goff alleging he was assaulted by Department of Corrections personnel during a cell sweep. Lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice. How ironic.

John Grisham's Rain Man? Did you see that on the internet and just believed it?

Oops. I goofed. Thought Grisham wrote that. Sorry.