Bossier City is the largest city in Bossier Parish. The Red River connects Bossier with its sister city, Shreveport. Collectively known as “Louisiana’s Other Side” the area is a progressive community with big city amenities. Bossier City has retained its small town charm. Friendly people and diverse offerings add to its allure. It’s careful and thoughtful city planning has made it one of the fastest growing cities in Louisiana.
The regions number one attraction for visitors and the community is the Louisiana Boardwalk. The Boardwalk offers great shopping, dining and entertainment and features a promenade along the Red River.
Bossier City is the largest city in Bossier Parish and is the sister city to Shreveport, lying along the Red River.
It boasts a number of arts and cultural venues including the largest performance venue, CenturyTel Center which hosts nationally known performers. 
CenturyTel Center has been named one of the top entertainment destinations in the world. Located on the banks of the Red River in Bossier City, La., the CenturyTel Center is a 270,000 square foot facility capable of hosting up to 14,000 patrons. The venue features world-class concerts, family shows, ice-skating shows, motor sports, rodeos, conventions, religious and community events, as well as other special events. And since the beginning, the CenturyTel Center has been “home” to our community’s CHL “Mudbugs” hockey franchise and AF2 “Bossier City Battle Wings” franchise.
Artists and arts organizations in Bossier Parish are supported by the Bossier Arts Council. The Bossier Arts Council is a non-profit agency that has been providing, promoting, and producing arts events for more than 28 years and counting! The Bossier Arts Council is home to East Bank Theatre and the East Bank Gallery. The BAC is also host to Arts-In-Education, Kids-N-Art, Summer Creativity Camp, Prime Time Reading, Public Art, and Re-Granting. The newest addition the BAC’s programming and services is the BAC Cultural Stop, a service designed for artists to get their work e-ready! Our new computer depot is private and well-equipped with computers, high speed internet, printers, digital cameras, and a photography area. BAC Cultural Stop is 100% free to use! For a listing of upcoming theatre performances, exhibitions and programs visit the Bossier Arts Council website.
The best way to find out what’s happening in the arts in Bossier is to visit the Shreveport Bossier Fun Guide.com. You’ll find information on performances by Prevailing Winds Symphony & Jazz Band, The Company Repertory Theatre, East Bank Theatre, Gilbert & Sullivan Society and more…
The Mardi Gras in the Ark-La-Tex Museum was formed to forward the development of a regional Mardi Gras museum. The facility gives residents, visitors and school groups an educational and entertaining perspective of the history of Mardi Gras in Louisiana with particular focus on the celebrations in Northwest Louisiana. Visit their website for information on the museum and the history of Mardi Gras in North Louisiana.
Barksdale Air Force Base is home to the Eighth Air Force Museum, where your heart and mind soar. See up
close and personal the great and now very rare collection of Air Force aircraft that won WWII to include the B-17, B-24, and B-29. The museum also displays B-52D which has over 400 missions over Vietnam and a B-52G that served in both Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm. Altogether, the museum displays 28 aircraft and missiles on 9 acres. Don’t miss the super fast, super secret SR-71 Blackbird! Indoor exhibits tell the story of Historic Barksdale AFB, 2d Bomb Wing, and the “Mighty Eighth” synonymous with WWII action over the skies of war-torn Europe. Also see the collection of artifacts used by President George W. Bush immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. The Commander-in-Chief was rushed to Barksdale AFB, LA as a matter of security.
ARCHITECTURAL SITES: Bossier City
Bossier City High School, 777 Bearkat Drive.
Architect: Jones, Roessle, Olschner, and Wiener.
Completed: 1940. Cost: $571,741 (including ticket office, black high school and elementary remodeling).
Historian’s Note: PWA Docket LA-1132-F. Cost included a $300,000 bond issue by Bossier parish school board. Built on an 11-acre site at the location of the old Civil War Fort Kirby Smith, one of the fortifications protecting Shreveport. Bossier High School is considered five-schools-in-one containing a classroom building, gymnasium, auditorium, cafeteria and a manual-training shop. The complex is oriented to the southern climate with the architect given freedom from the restrictive school-building codes of the time. Included in the project was a high school for black students. PWA Docket LA-1132 or Bossier City Colored High School sometimes referred to as “Butler” in the records but unclear if this was the name of the high school.
Source: Sam Weiner Collection, LSU-S archives, (083/Box 2/Folder 25).
Source for black high school: Sam Wiener Collection, LSU-S archives (083/AD117/blueprints)
Bossier Parish - Haughton High School - photo by Neil Johnson
