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NOLA History Guy Podcast 20-April-2019 Unpacking Bayou St. John
NOLA History Guy Podcast 20-April-2019 - Unpacking Bayou St. John. NOLA History Guy Podcast 20-April-2019 Happy Easter! Happy Elmer's Gold Brick Eggs. The Elmer's truck is from Pop Evans' fun group, New Orleans "Black" in the Day on Facebook. Elmer's Gold Brick was...
NOLA History Guy Podcast 13-April-2019 M.A.R.T. and City Park Avenue
NOLA History Guy Podcast 13-April-2019 NOLA History Guy Podcast 13-April-2019 Another short-form pod this week! Two items, "New Orleans Past" and unpacking a photo from 1951 M.A.R.T. Our "New Orleans Past" item, from Catherine Campanella's website, is her 11-April...
NOLA History Guy Podcast 6-April-2019 – K-Doe and Signs
NOLA History Guy Podcast 6-April-2019 NOLA History Guy Podcast 6-April-2019 I need to do the pods more, so we'll be dropping "short-form" eps weekly. The long-form pods are fun, but they take time. That means they're less frequent, therefore fewer eps. So, let's do...
Basin Street 1900 – Before Terminal Station #TrainThursday
Basin Street 1900 - Before Terminal Station on Canal Street Basin Street 1900 This postcard, published by C.B. Mason, shows the Storyville District, three to five years after it's creation (legally). Here's the note on the postcard: "Bird's-Eye View Of New Orleans LA....
Magazine Street Trackless Trolley Conversion #StreetcarMonday
Magazine Street Trackless Trolley Conversion - electric with no rails Magazine Street Trackless Trolley Conversion New Orleans Public Service, Inc (NOPSI) discontinued streetcars on a number of lines after World War II. Magazine Street was one of these lines. While...
Napoleon Avenue at St. Charles 1860 #StreetcarMonday
Napoleon Avenue links the river to Broadmoor Napoleon Avenue in 1860 The first streetcar service in New Orleans was along St. Charles Avenue. The New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad Company started at Canal Street. They expanded service in stages, as demand and...
Missiles in Avondale – Southern Pacific Railroad #TrainThursday
Missiles traveling through Avondale Missiles in Avondale a Southern Pacific Railroad train pulls missile parts through the railroad's yard in Avondale, Louisiana, 7-Sep-1960. Several Alco road switcher engines pull flatcars containing the parts. Avondale Shipyards In...
Riverfront Arch Roofs roll from Canal to Esplanade
Riverfront Arch Roofs - 1923-vintage streetcars operating off St. Charles Avenue Riverfront Arch Roofs The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority opened the Riverfront line in 1988. they used two of the 1923 arch roof streetcars and two Melbourne W-2 streetcars. The...
Clothes Horse ad from 1979 – four locations! #NOLAshopping
Clothes Horse was a womens clothing chain. Clothes Horse In 1979, Clothes Horse operated four locations in New Orleans. You shopped at Clothes Horse in Uptown Square (Broadway and River Road), The Plaza at Lake Forest (in Da East), and Village Aurora. My memories of...
Amtrak New Orleans – Get away for Spring Break!
Amtrak New Orleans offers solid train travel options Amtrak New Orleans Winter Getaways! The more things change, the more they remain the same. College students wanting to get away during their break is one of those. This 1996 ad in the Loyola Maroon tempts students...
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