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Article: Baton Rouge Adjusts to Population Boom
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DOUG SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
03-21-2006
Dateline: BATON ROUGE, La.
Friends Kenron Ritchie, left, and Tony Smith, both of Baton Rouge, partake of the Monday special of red beans, rice and Italian sausage at Mandina's Restaurant in Baton Rouge, La. Monday, March 20, 2006. Smith says he's been eating at the restaurant's New Orleans location for 25 years. After sustaining damage from Hurricane Katrina, Mandina's opened a location in Baton Rouge, La six weeks ago. (AP Photo/ Liz Condo)
Mandina's restaurant used to be in an old pink house by New Orleans' streetcar tracks. Now, it is 80 miles north, surrounded by strip malls and traffic-clogged roads.
The down-home eatery is the ...