Index. B-52s, 177 Bacchus, 147 Back-of-Town, 185, 188, 199 Baker s, 42 banners, 100 Barker, Danny, 180 Baronne Street, 27, 42, 106, 125, 156, 166

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1 Index A&G Cafeteria, 205 A. B. Griswold, 50 A. M. Hill, 50 Abe s Pawn Shop, 42 Adler s, 56 advertising, 35, 53, 92 Alamo, 69 Alexa (now Astor Crown Plaza) Hotel, 49 Algiers ferry, 165 Allen s, 42 Alline, Emile Sr., 120 almond bark, 41 American Can Company, 185 Amerihost Inns and Suites, 85 Antoine Hair Salon, 38 Aquarium of the Americas, 166 Armistice Day, 107 Armstrong, Louis, 178 Army of Northern Virginia, 219 Army of Tennessee, 217 asphalt, 62, 63 Astor Crown Plaza, 88 Astor Crown Plaza Hotel, 49, 100 Audubon Building, 49 Austin, Ashleigh, 120 automobiles, 159 B-52s, 177 Bacchus, 147 Back-of-Town, 185, 188, 199 Baker s, 42 banners, 100 Barker, Danny, 180 Baronne Street, 27, 42, 106, 125, 156, 166 Barton, Dr. E. H., 187 Basin Street, 22, 38, , 185 Battle of September 14, 1874, 115 Bay St. Louis, 164 Bayou Road, 185, 187 Bayou St. John, 187 Beach Corner, 205 beautification, 92, 100 Bed Bug Row, 192 Belknap Fountain, 35 Benevolent Order of the Elks, 217 Bernhardt, Sarah, 69 Besthoff III, Sidney J., Besthoff, Sydney J., 32 Beth Israel, 212 Betsy s Pancake House, 204 Better Hats, 45 Biederbecke, Bix, 179 Bienville Street, 187 billboards, 93, 96 Blackmar, A. E., 51 Blue Book, 165 Bocage, Peter, 179 Boggs, Lindy, 31 Bonnet Carré, 189 Booth, Edwin, 69 Boston Club, 26, 106, 140 Botinelli Place, 209 Bottinelli, Theodore, 210 Bottinelli, Theodoro Francisco, 209 Bourbon Street, 28, 32-34, 39, 42, 46, 58, 92, 121, 135, 140, 159, 163, 193 boycotts,

2 232 CANAL STREET Broad Street, 187 Brooks Brothers, 56 Bucktown, 192 Buisson, Benjamin, 170 Burgundy, 51, 67 Burgundy Street, 53 busses, 159 C. H. Zimmermann, 50 Cabildo, 28 Camp Street, 35, 49, 58, 69, 171 Canal Belt, 158 Canal Boulevard, 220 Canal Place, 34, 42, 80, 115 Canal Place Shopping Center, 65 Canal Street ferry building, 151 Canal streetcar, 209 candy department, 40 Cangelosi, Robert, 126 Capitol, 178 Carnival, 63, 156 Carnival balls, 69 Carondelet, 38, 42, 71, 92, 156, 166 Carondelet Building, 166 Carondelet Canal, 22 Carondelet Street, 42, 44, 69, 106, 211 Carrollton, 163, 188 Cassimere, Dr. Raphael, 115, 117 cast-iron galleries, 96 cemeteries, 91, 187 Centanni, Myra Collins, 124 Center, 71 Chalmette, 125 Chaplin, Charlie, 107 Charity Hospital, 27, 38, 213 Charles Lindbergh, 100 Charlton, E. Harper, 161 Charmers Club, 44 Chartres Street, 31-32, 34-35, 42, 51, 58, Chateau Sonesta Hotel, 88 Chess, Checkers, and Whist Club, 84, 106 Chevra Thilim, 209, 212 Christ Church, 34, 36, 67 Christ Episcopal Church, 28 Christmas, 91, 119 Christmas Eve, 122, 124 Cigali Building, 24 Ciné Royale, 71 City Beautiful, 166, 201 City Commons, 21, 186 city decorator, 140 City Hotel, 83 City of Carrollton, 187 City Park, 36, 211 City Park Avenue, 187, 199, 212 City Park Stadium, 109 City Park s Celebration in the Oaks, 126 Civil Rights, Civil War, 156, , 204, 217 Claiborne, 186 Claiborne Avenue, 27, 62, 156, 161, , 189, 193 Claiborne Towers, 86 Coca Cola Bottling Company, 190 Coca-Cola plant, 96 Coghill, Sir John, 186 Coghill, Sir Joshua, 186 Coleman Adler s Jewelers, 44, 50 Collin s Cotton Press, 190 Commercial Hotel, 84 Common, 83, 125 Commons, Community Bargain Days, 41, 133 commuters, 165 Comus, 137 Confederate monument, 217 Congress of Racial Equality, 115 Contemporary Arts Center, 177 Copeland, Popeye s Fried Chicken founder Al, 125 corned beef and cabbage, 187 Cosmopolitan Hotel, 84 Crawford, Paul, 175 Crawford-Ferguson Night Owls, 175 Creole cream cheese, 124 Creole Race Course, 217 Crescent Brewery, 190 Crescent City Billiards Hall, 106 Crescent Row, 192 crevasse, 188

3 Index 233 Crowley, W. H., 126 Custom House, 115 Customhouse (now Iberville), 33 Customhouse Street, 169 Cypress Grove, 209, 213 Cypress Grove Cemetery, 213 D. H. Holmes, 32-33, 36, 38, 42-43, 46, 56, 91, 93, 102, 124, 140 Dakin, James, 28 Danziger s, 46 Dauphine Street, 29-30, 32-33, 36, 67, 69 Davenport, Iowa, 179 Davis, Jefferson, 204, 219 de la Fayette, Marquis, 21, 186 Decatur Street, 24 Degas, Edgar, 24 Desire streetcar line, 159, 163 Detweiler, Maureen, 187 Dillard s, 88, 123 dime stores, 42 Dispersed of Judah, 34, 212 Dodds, Johnny and Warren Baby, 179 Dorsiere Place, 24 DoubleTree Hotel, 86 Dr. Warren Stone s Infirmary, 190 drainage, 61-62, 117, 157, 187 Dreamworld, 69 Dreux, Col. Charles Didier, 204 dry goods, 32 dry goods stores, 31, 38 Dryades Street, 34, 39 Du Motier, Marie, 186 Easter, 42 Eastlake, 193 Einstein, Izzy, 163 electric arc street lights, 91 Electric Association of New Orleans, 127 electric lights, 124 electric street cars, 157 electric street lamps, 91 electric wires, 91 electricity, 91, 93 Elk Place, 64, 75, 166 Elks Club, 64 Elysian Fields, 156 Elysian Fields Avenue, 163 Endymion, 147 Esplanade Avenue, 22, 158, 185, 193, 211 Esso Building, 64 Eucharistic Congress, 100, 109, 211 Exchange Place, 69 F. W. Woolworth five and dime stores, 46 Fair Grounds, 217 Fairmont, 85, 93, 126, 166 Fat Monday, 151 Faubourg Hagan, 187 Faubourg St. John, 185 Faubourg St. Mary, 21 Feibleman s, 46, 106 Fellman s, 46, 106 Ferguson, Len, 175 Finnin, Betty, 126, 140 Firemen s Cemetery, 209 Firemen s Charitable and Benevolent Association, 209, 213 Firemen s Monument, 217 firemen s parade, 103 flying squad, 40 Folse Drive, 126 Fort Bourgoyne, 21 Fort St. Charles, 21, 22 Fort St. Ferdinand, 21 Fort St. John, 21 Fort St. Louis, 21 French Opera House, 69, 135, 137 French Quarter, 21, 26, 31, 38, 43, 49, 83, 100, 164, 165, 173, 188 Front Street, 161 Fuerst and Kramer, 34 Gaiety Theater, 67, 137 galleries, 43 Gallier, Sr., James, 28, 29 Galvez Street,

4 234 CANAL STREET gaslight, 91 Gates of Prayer, 212 Gentilly, 147 Gentilly Boulevard, 185 Gentilly Woods, 116 Girod Street Cemetery, 209 Globe Theater, 69 Godchaux, Leon, 40 Godchaux s, 24, 36, 40, 42-44, 53, 113, 122 Godchaux s Building, 42, 86 Godchaux s Young Towners Club, 44 Gold Seal Creamery, 124 Goldring s, 42, 46, 56, 122 Gone With the Wind, 163 Gordon s, 50 Governor House, 86 Grand Opera House, 40, 67, 69, 135, 137 Grant s, 117 Gravier Street, 67, 83, 137, 166, 209 Greenwood Cemetery, 217 Greger and Wilson, 50 Grunewald Hall, 84 Grunewald Hotel, 84, 93, 166 Grunewald s, 51 Gucci, 56 Gulf and Mobile Railroad, 165 Gulf Building, 64 Gus Mayer, 31, 42, 46, 56, 106, 122 Gustave Katz, 32 gutters, 61, 62 H. B. Stevens Men s Store, 38 Haan s shoe store, 44 Hagan Avenue, 187, 204 Half Way House, 158, 209 Hampton Inn, 166 Harrah s Casino, 115, 166 Hart, Joel T., 103 Hart, Junius, 53 Hausmann s, 46, 50, 56 Hennessey, David, 115 Hennick, Louis, 161 Henry Clay Monument, 103, 105, 115, 137, 156, 157 Hibernia National Bank Building, 166 Hilda, Miss, 186 Historic District, 207 hog-wallow prairie, 190 Holmes, Daniel, 53 Holy See, 31 Hoover, J. Edgar, 204 Hotel New Orleans, 85, 166 Hotel Senator, 84 House of Tomorrow, 127 Howard Avenue, 211 Hug, Armand, 204 Hyde and Goodrich, 50 Iberville, 38, 84 Iberville Street, 40, 169, 173 Imperial Building, 24, 42 Imperial Shoe Store, 46 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 213 Industrial Electric, 96 Ingraham, Joseph Holt, 27 Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, 23 Intercontinental Hotel, 147 International Hotel, 86 ironwork gallery, 137 Isentrout, Edwin H. Oscar, 121, 123, 125 Isle of Capri Casino, 180 J. Levois and Jamison, 36, 50 Jackson Ogden Belknap, 35 Jackson Square, 211 Jackson, Dr. Virgil, 126 Jackson, Stonewall, 219 Jefferson Davis Parkway, 187, 204 Jefferson, Joseph, 69 Jewish synagogue, 211 Johnson Street, 187 Johnston, Albert Sidney, 217 Joy Theatre, 64, 75 Judah Touro, 212 Julia Street, 165 Jung Hotel, 85, 166 K&B, Kane, William H., 126

5 Index 235 Karno the Tailor, 96 Karpis, Alvin, 204 Keller-Zander, 42, 46 Krauss, 39-40, 53, 166 Krauss Company, 38 Krauss Department Store, 41 Kreeger s, 42, 46, 56, 122 Kress, 41, 88 Krewe of Clones, 177 Krewe of NOR, 147 Krewe of Proteus, 135 L&L Furs, 46 La Louisiane, 84 LaSalle Hotel, 85, 166 Labiche s, 42 ladies lounge, 39 Lafayette Square, 105, 157, 171 Lafitte Street, 186 LaFleur, Yvonne, 36 Lafon, Barthélémy, 185 Lakeview, 126, 220 Landmark Cinema, 80 Latrobe, Benjamin, 28, 170 Latrobe, Henry S., 28 Le Meridien Hotel, 71, 86 Lee, Robert E., 209 Levee (Decatur), 23 Lewis, Steve, 179 Liberty Bond parades, 107 Liberty Monument, 115, 156 Liberty Street, 189 light standards, 62-63, 91-92, 126 lighting, 92 Lilienthal, Theodore, 58 Loew s State Theatre, 71, 166 logos, 56 Lord s, 43 Louisiana Jockey Club, 217 Louisiana Purchase, 21, 31 Louisiana World Exposition, 86 Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 164 Louisville and Nashville Station, 36, , 178 Loyola Avenue, 166 Lundi Gras, 151, 163 Macheca s Imperial Building, 42 Madame Olympe, 35 Mademoiselle K Club, 44 Magazine Street, 32, 34, 42 Maison Blanche, 24, 30, 36, 38-40, 42-43, 46, 53, 69, 88, 91, , 123, 125 Maison de Santé, 190 Mandina, Frank and Anthony, 185 Mandina s, 185, 205 Mangel s, 43 Mangiapane, Sherwood, 178 Marbeck, 85 Mardi Gras, 63, 91, 103, 113, 122, 135 Mardi Gras Maskathon, 140 Mariners Church, 170 Marks Isaacs, 39, 46, 49, 88, 125 Marriott Hotel, 42, 69, 86 Marx Brothers, 46 Mascot, The, 190 Matthews, Bunny, 176 Maurice Schooler, 50 Mayer Israel, 46 Mayfair, 43 McCarty plantation, 188 McCrory s, 117 McCutcheon, George Barr, 120 McKenzie, H. Jordan, 126 McNamara, Ray, 205 Mehrtens, Myra Centanni, 125 Mercer, Dr. Newton, 26 Mercier Building, 29, 36, 40 Metairie and Gentilly ridges, 185 Metairie Cemetery, 209, 217 Metairie Jockey Club, 217 Metairie Racetrack, 189, 209, 217 Metairie Ridge, 187, 209 Metairie Road, 158, 190, 209, 213, 219 metropolitan police, 115 Mid-City, 34, 117, 147, 157, 158, 185 Mid-City fixture, 124 Mighty Morton organ, 75 Miller Brothers, 50 Miro Street, 187 Mistick Krewe of Comus, 69, 135

6 236 CANAL STREET Molly Marine, 166 Monkey Wrench Corner, 157 Monteleone Hotel, 84 Moody s, 34 Morial, Ernest Dutch, 116 Morial, Sybil, 116 Morris Building, 24, 49 Moses family of photographers, 58 Mouton, Rose, 45 Mr. Bingle, , , 125 music stores, 51 Musso s, 204 Musson Buildings, 24 Musson, Germain, 24 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council, 115 National Food Stores, 96 National Register of Historic Places, 207 National Shirt Shops, 117 natural levee, 185 navigation canal, 21-22, 60, 186 Nefuzoth Yehudah, 212 neon lighting, 44, 93 neutral ground, 26, 60-61, 91, 115, 126, 140, 159, 161 New Basin Canal, 158, 209 New Basin Canal shell road, 213 New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra, 176 New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad, 156 New Orleans and Mobile Railroad, 164 New Orleans City Railroad Company, 157 New Orleans Country Club, 209 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, 176 New Orleans Museum of Art, 102 New Roads, Louisiana, 31 Newcomb, 71 North Broad Street, 205 North Prieur, 192 North Rampart Street, 22, 51, 69, 158 North Scott Street, 193 North Villere Street, 193 North White Street, 158, 204 Northern and Southern Railroad, 165 Oak Land Race Course, 209 Odd Fellows Cemetery, 213 Odeco, 64 Ogden, Francis B., 185 Olbrich, Josef Maria, 127 Old Basin Canal, 22 oldest building, 24 Oliver, Joe King, 180 Omni Royal Orleans, 83 omnibus line, 156 One Shell Square, 86 Original, 41 Orleans Navigation Company, 22 Orleans Parish Prison, 115 Orleans, Charles A., 193 Orpheum Theater, 71, 166 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church, 204 oyster shells, 189 Palace Cafe, 51 Pan American Life Insurance Company, 193 Park Plaza, 86 parking, 159 paving, 60, 61, 62 Perry House, 83 Perry House Hotel, 106 Pete the Penguin, 122 Pickford, Mary, 107 Pickwick Club, 106 Pinestri, S., 186 Piron, A. J., 179 Place St. Charles, 83 Planters Hotel, 83 Plaza, 69 Pontalba Buildings, 211 Pontchartrain Railroad, 156, 163 Pope Pius XI, 211 Port of New Orleans, 175 Porter s, 38 Porter-Stevens, 38

7 Index 237 potter s field, 213 Pottery Barn, 56 Poydras Street, 64, 190 President, 175 Prohibition, 163, 173 Proteus, 137 Public Belt Railroad, 166 public transportation, 156 pumps, 187 Quality Florist, 211 racial segregation, 115 railroads, 163, 186 rains, 189 Rampart Street, 26, 185 Rapp s Luggage Store, 46, 50 Reconstruction, 115 Relf, Richard, 58 Rendon, 84 restaurants, 117, 204 Reuter s Seed Company, 193 Rex, 140, 151, 156, 163 Richardson Memorial Hall, 193 Ripley, Eliza, 31 Rite-Aid drug store, 32, 205 Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 30, 44, 88, 135 Riverwalk, 151 Rocheblave Street, 187 Ronald McDonald House, 201 Roosevelt Hotel, 85, 126, 166 Royal Street, 24, 31-32, 34, 39, 49-50, 58, 84, 103, 156, 159, 163 Rubenstein Brothers, 24, 44, 56 Russell Stover candy store, 106 S. H. Kress, 44 Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church, 34 Saenger Theatre, 75, 80, 85, 166 Saenger-Orleans, 75, 80 Saks Fifth Avenue, 56, 115 Sanitary Commission of New Orleans, 187 Saxon, Lyle, 135 Schoen Funeral Home, 187 Schwartz, Herbert, 120 Schwarz Dry Goods Store, 46 Sears and Roebuck, 42, 100, 125 segregation, 117 sewerage, 62 sewing machine dealers, 34 Shakespeare Literary and Theatrical Club, 26 Shea, Al, 122 sheet music, 51 shell road, 189 Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 86 Sheraton-Charles, 126 show windows, 32-34, 36, 39, 44, 91, 119, 122 Shrimpton, Jean, 45 Sidewalks, 58, 60-61, 63 Sidney, 178 signage, 92-93, 96 Simon Bolivar, 166 skyscrapers, 24, 30, 40, 42, 49 soda fountain, 34 South Anthony Street, 209 South Derbigny Street, 193 South Murat Street, 124 South Rampart Street, 26, 71, 117 Southern Pacific Railroad, 163 Southern Railway Station, 165 Southern Railway Terminal, 85, 164, 166 Spanish Fort Amusement Park, 165 Spanish influenza, 107 Spanish Plaza, 151 St. Aloysius High School, 211 St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, 209 St. Charles and Carrollton Railroad, 163 St. Charles Avenue, 140, 163 St. Charles Hotel, 126 St. Charles line, 157 St. Charles Street, 24, 34, 44, 69, 83, 147, 156 St. Charles streetcar, 156 St. Claude, 211 St. Cyr, Johnny, 179 St. James Hotel, 83 St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, 185

8 238 CANAL STREET St. Louis Hotel, 83 St. Patrick s Catholic Church, 209, 212, 213 St. Patrick s Cemetery, 213 St. Patrick s Cemetery One, Two, Three, and Four, 212 state capitol, 27 statehouse, 27 Stevens men s store, 44, 56 Stewart, Jack, 176 store bags, 53 Storyville, 38, Straight University, 193 Strand Theater, 166 Straw Hat Day, 105 Streckfus, 176 streetcar barn, 189 Streetcar Named Desire, A, 159, 163 streetcars, 26, 36, 103, 105, 185 Streetcars Desired Inc., 161 strikes, 159 sugar sheds, 164 Swamp Room, 205 Tanesse, Jacques, 21, 22 Tango Belt, 173 Temmeme Derech Cemetery, 212 Temple Sinai, 211 Texaco Oil Company, 64 Thom McAn Shoes, 117 Three Sisters, 43 Tidewater Marine, 64 Tilton, F. W., 26 Touro Block, 34, 39, 43, 49-51, 61, 96 Touro Boulevard, 61 Touro Buildings, 34, 46 Touro Synagogue, 34 Touro, Judah, 34, 61 townhouses, 26, 32, 35 Treasures of Tutankamen, 102 Trianon, 69 Trusthouse Forte, 86 Tudor Theater, 69 Tulane Avenue, 186 Tulane Medical School, 85 Tulane University, 64 Tulane University s Hogan Jazz Archive, 179 Tulane University s School of Medicine, 193 Union Hotel, 83 Union Passenger Station, 166 Union Terrace, 67 United States Congress, 31 United States Custom House in Boston, 209 University of New Orleans, 64 University Place, 26-27, 71, 85, 166 Varieties Theater, 67, 93 variety stores, 38 Vatican, 31 Verandah Hotel, 83 Virgin, V. J., 193 Vitascope Hall, 69 Walgreens, 44, 71, 84, 96, 107 Walshe s, 34 Warren Easton High School, 204 Waters, Muddy, 177 waterworks, 62 Waveland, 164 WDSU-TV, 122 Wells Street, 115, 164 Wendy s fast-food restaurant, 24 Werlein, Philip, 51 Werlein s, 51, 53 West End, 192 West End Boulevard, 126 Wharton, Thomas K., 29, , 173 Whist Club, 84 White Brothers, 50 White League, 115 Whitney National Bank Building, 209 Williams, Tennessee, 159 window shopping, 119 windows, 46 Wirth Building, 64 Woldenberg Park, 154 Wonderland, 71 Wood, Alexander T., 170

9 Index 239 Wood s Cotton Press, 190 World War I, 107, 124, 159, 163 World War II, 69, 100, 140, 147 World s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, 115, 157 WPA New Orleans City Guide (1938), 91 WSMB Radio, 40 Wyndham Hotel, 86 Yardstick, 41 Young Circle Club, 44 Zale s, 50 Zulu, 154