The Twin City Jamboree

The show began in 1948 as the Ouachita Valley Jamboree at the Officer's Club on Selman Field, then outgrew the space and moved to the fairgrounds exhibit hall in West Monroe. Under owners Loy Wallace, Sam Davis, Fulton Mobley and Alex L. Myatt it was renamed the Twin City Jamboree. In the 1950s it ran a Hillbilly Wedding promotion, offering marriages at the Harrell Road rodeo grounds with the staff band. Later staff-band players included Ray Price and James Burton, and an early duo called Al and Jerry was Al Jordan and Jerry Lee Lewis. Rising costs ended it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 1.1 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Masur Museum of Art — 3.0 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 5.5 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 7.5 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.

More markers nearby

• Doug Duffey — 0.8 mi
• Trenton — 0.9 mi
• Alton Howard — 1.0 mi
• Monroe Residential Historic District — 1.2 mi