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Maison Blanche Tire Store
Maison Blanche tire store on Airline Highway in Metairie. Maison Blanche tire store The "Greatest Store South," Maison Blanche operated a Tire Store at 1920 Airline Highway, in Metairie, from the late 1950s to the 1970s. The store was in between the store at S....
Cabildo Courtyard 1940
Cabildo courtyard, captured in a 1940 postcard. Cabildo courtyard "Courtyard and Prison Rooms in the Cabildo." This postcard, from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Digital Collection at the Newberry Library, University of Illinois, is from a photo by Bill Leeper. It...
Spring Week 1976 #BOSHSunday
Spring Week mini-classes replaced third quarter exams in 1976. Spring Week Brother Gaspar Rodrigue, SC, conducting a "gourmet cooking" class for Spring Week at Brother Martin High School, 1976. Brother Gaspar lived across the street from the school, on Elysian Fields,...
West End Streetcar #StreetcarSaturday
West End Streetcar line ran until 1950. West End Streetcar NOPSI 933, running on the West End Streetcar line. Undated photo, between 1948 and 1950. This is the end of the line, out by Lake Pontchartrain. The streetcar ran from the the river, up Canal Street, turning...
Krauss Warehouse Building #KraussFriday
Krauss warehouse building on Iberville Street supported the store. Krauss warehouse building The Krauss Company used this seven-story building at 201 N. Front Street (Front and Iberville) as warehouse space in the 1930s to the 1960s. The store, located at 1201 Canal,...
Sharkey’s Trumpet
Sharkey's Trumpet was a gold-plated award from the NOJC. Sharkey's Trumpet Mrs. Myra Menville presents an award trumpet to Sharkey Bonano in 1955. Bonano, who was born in Milneburg, played with a number of legends of New Orleans Jazz, including Freedie Newman and...
Richards and Gillette in Milneburg #JazzTuesday
Richards and Gillette were a married couple and jazz act. Richards and Gillette Bob Gillette and his wife, Shirley Richards, posing on the railroad tracks in Milneburg in 1952. Gillette played the banjo. He played with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, then Bix...
Maison Blanche 1909
Maison Blanche 1909, just after the "new" store was completed. Maison Blanche 1909 Detroit Publishing Company photo of the tallest building on Canal Street, the Maison Blanche Building. The department store demolished the old (1884) Mercier Building at 901 Canal...
Brother Leo Godin, SC #BOSHSunday
Brother Leo Godin in the "Bursar's Office," in the late 1970s. Brother Leo, SC Working the Brother Martin High School bookstore was Brother Leo Godin, SC's job in the late 1970s. Note the all-khaki uniform of the time. I can't identify the student in this photo. If...
Red Streetcars Uptown #StreetcarSaturday
Red streetcars uptown aren't as common a sight as they used to be. Red streetcars uptown David Mora (@davidmora on Twitter, @davidnola on Instagram) shares some absolutely wonderful photos of New Orleans. He always posts stuff that lifts my spirits, like this photo of...
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