Carrollton Shopping Center 1964

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Carrollton Shopping Center took advantage of the Pontchartrain Expressway. Gus Mayer "Keep cool, in sleeveless dresses, deftly shaped..." Summer dresses in dacron-polyester from Gus Mayer. This ad, from the Times-Picayune on 4-June-1964. The store sold these dresses in the "Career Shop-Young Moderns" at the Canal Street location, on the third floor. By 1964, Gus Mayer operated three stores in the city. The venerable main store was at 800 Canal, corner Carondelet. They moved to that location from across the street in 1948. The old Pickwick Hotel building, built in 1895, came up for sale after World War II. Gus Mayer...