Let's rewind back in time to 1947, to 74 years ago and war had just ended for our country.  The Army Corps. of Engineers planned to turn a 20 mile bend in the river into a 1/2 mile long "straight". This created the Tunica Cutoff, now Tunica Lake, and Bordeaux Point landing, or fish camp.

Grand daddy’s old commissary building over the last 35 years has been 15 different bars, one was Hickie's. He was a local boy whose dad had the city barber shop on Main Street in downtown Tunica. The barber shop was on the corner where Fox Island Road meets Main Street. That's where all the men played dominoes during the day in the back room.

It was all the talk, King Baby had cut a deal with the Casino crew from the Gulf Coast to move to the Cutoff and set up shop. The coffee shop folks were a talking, I came in for a glass of tea and the retired crew wanted to know if I was going to get a "boat" at my camp.