New Abbeville gateway sign will highlight Warren Storm

The entrance coming into Abbeville on U.S. Hwy. 167 received a nice upgrade a few months ago, with a new gateway sign welcoming visitors to the city.
The sign features the “Home of Bobby Charles” on the front, and “See You Later Alligator” on the other side.
The city’s eastern entrance will soon have a similar, musical welcome.
The Abbeville City Council approved a new sign that will be placed near the entrance of the city for traffic coming from the Erath area. The sign will feature “Home of Warren Storm, Swamp Pop Pioneer.” The council approved a $7,000 estimate from Signs & Banners to create the sign, which will be a smaller version of the Bobby Charles sign.
Councilman-at-Large Francis Plaisance made a motion to accept the estimate. Councilman Wayne Landry, District D, provided a second.
“It’s going to be a beautiful sign,” Plaisance said.
Mayor Mark Piazza agreed.
“Warren Storm is a very popular local artist,” Piazza said. “I am sure that he and everyone else will be very excited about this.”
Storm, 79, has performed regularly since 1956, mostly in the Swap Pop genre.
Storm is a member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. His version of “Prisoner’s Song”; “Mama Mama Mama (Look What Your Little Boy’s Done) both broke into the Billboard Top 100 during the late ‘50s.
There is already a smaller gateway sign on the south side of the city, on South State Street. There is no gateway sign on the west entrance. Piazza said the city can look at putting a sign there. Who will be featured on that sign remains to be seen.
“We are taking in one at a time,” Piazza said. “We can discuss what we will do with that sign.”