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Bridge City, the Gumbo Capital of the World
1973
Bridge City, Louisiana
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The community grew up in the 1930s around the building of the Huey P. Long Bridge and took its name from it. A small fair for Holy Guardian Angels church in 1967 had become the Bridge City Gumbo Festival by 1973, the year Governor Edwin Edwards proclaimed the town the Gumbo Capital of the World. The festival still runs on the second full weekend of October and cooks thousands of gallons of seafood and chicken and sausage gumbo.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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