For nearly three decades Shreveport was known as “The Record Center of the South.” The man who was single-handedly responsible for Shreveport earning that designation was Stan Lewis. Stanley J. Lewis, born on July 5, 1927, in Shreveport, Louisiana, passed away on July 14 at age 91.

Lewis was raised in a close-knit Italian family that ran a grocery store. At the age of 19 he bought ...