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JC Ellis Memories
JC Ellis Memories of my elementary school days. JC Ellis Memories I've been working on de-cluttering my home office this week. In the back of my desk drawer, I found a ziplok bag with a bunch of stuff from my childhood. Boy Scout medals and patches, assorted pins and...
The S.S. Officer’s Armchair by Daniel Lee #bookreview
The S.S. Officer's Armchair by Daniel Lee offers insight into life in Nazi Germany. The S.S. Officer's Armchair This book is the story of Robert Griesinger. Griesinger was born in 1906, in Stuttgart, which was then part of the Kingdom of Württemberg. He entered the...
New Orleans Brewing – a brief history of a long NOLA tradition
New Orleans brewing dates back to the earliest German families in the city. ED note: This article originally appeared at GoNOLA.com in 2012. Updated with different images and some additional history. New Orleans Brewing The German celebration of Oktoberfest is defined...
NOLA History Guy Podcast 20-June-2020 – Katy Morlas Shannon Part 2
NOLA History Guy Podcast 20-June-2020 is part two of our interview with Katy Morlas Shannon NOLA History Guy Podcast 20-June-2020 Just one segment this week, which is part two of our talk with historian and author Katy Morlas Shannon. We had such a good time talking,...
Flixible buses ended the Canal streetcar line
Flixible buses that ended the Canal Streetcar. Flixible buses Aaron Handy III posted this photo a while back: "Inbound NOPSI Flxible New Look 194, assigned to Canal-Cemeteries, and a piggybacking colleague, both of the 1964 F2D6V-401-1 fleet (194 was next-to-last of...
Lakefront Drive-In Theater 1940
Lakefront Drive-In Theater, in 1940. Lakefront Drive-In Theater Last year, I presented a lecture at the National World War II Museum, entitled, Winning the War on the Lakefront. The talk started at West End and the New Canal, then moved along the lakefront to the...
NOLA History Guy Podcast 16-May-2020 – Katy Shannon Part I
NOLA History Guy Podcast 16-May-2020 is part one of our interview with Katy Morlas Shannon NOLA History Guy Podcast 16-May-2020 Two segments on a longer edition of NOLA History Guy Podcast this week. First is our pick of the week from Today in New Orleans History....
Milneburg 1927 – Pontchartrain Railroad
Milneburg 1927, and the Orleans Levee Board Milneburg 1927 Photo of what is now the intersection of Elysian Fields Avenue and Robert E. Boulevard, 4-March-1927. Photo shot by an unidentified photographer for the Orleans Levee Board. The Orleans Levee Board shot a lot...
NOLA History Guy Podcast 05-April-2020 D. H. Holmes, Streetcars
NOLA History Guy Podcast 05-April-2020 presents the first of a four-part series on the Riverfront Streetcar line. NOLA History Guy Podcast 05-April-2020 Two segments on NOLA History Guy Podcast 05-April-2020, our pick of the week from NewOrleansPast.com, and the start...
Southern Rebellion Zoom – images from recent weeks
Zoom I did an informal talk on Zoom yesterday, sharing some images from Antebellum to Reconstruction in New Orleans. Had a fun chat! Video Here. (MP4 file) Enjoy!
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