The Perishers dog, Boot. In the early days of the strip they lived in an approximately 10-foot (3 m) diameter concrete pipe section in a seemingly abandoned builder's yard. In 1966 he and Boot moved into a small railway station that had been closed by the Beeching Axe, and they have lived there ever since. Wellington takes his nickname from his trademark wellington boots – he cannot afford proper shoes. He named his dog Boot to go with Wellington. Wellington is quite an intellectual and given to philosophical trains of thought. He can also be quite resourceful – he appears to support
The Bossier Strip Las Vegas, having been around for many years prior to the establishment of Las Vegas as a gambling mecca.The Strip, it may be argued, continued with some interruptions east of Bossier City along U.S. Highway 80 to the Bossier-Webster Parish line. The Strip has been the object of political disputes too. In 1972, then Mayor George Nattin fired Police Chief Bobby Joe Almond over what Almond claimed was a dispute over enforcement of after-hours policies for nightclubs on The Strip.In 1975, "The Shreveport Times" published a picture by its chief photographer, H. Langston McEachern, showing Nattin's successor as mayor, James