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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...
Arch Roof streetcars at the Cemeteries 1963 #StreetcarMonday
Arch Roof Streetcars stack up at the Cemeteries Terminal, 1963 Arch Roof Streetcars in 1963 The 1923-vintage 800- and 900-series arch roof streetcars serviced the Canal line starting in the 1930s. Prior to 1935, the American Car Company's "Palace" cars ran on Canal....
2-8-0 Steam Locomotives in Gentilly #TrainThursday
2-8-0 Steam Locomotives operated regularly in Gentilly 2-8-0 Steam Locomotives We mentioned the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad (NO&NE) last week, in our discussion of Homer Plessy's ticket to Covington. Plessy was arrested at Press Street Station. That...
Rapp’s Luggage, 604 Canal Street #fadingsignsNOLA
Rapp's Luggage still sells leather goods and luggage in Metairie Rapp's Luggage George Rapp came to New Orleans from Germany, just at the end of the Civil War. He got settled and entered the leather goods business. By 1865, he put together the means to purchase Mack's...
Homer Plessy – The trip to Covington he never took
Homer Plessy bought a ticket to travel to Covington, LA, but never left New Orleans. Homer Plessy In 1892, the Comite des Citoyens (Citizens Committee), an organization of civil rights activists, wanted to challange the Separate Car Act, a bill passed by the Louisiana...
Race Screens on NOPSI 930 – Segregation on New Orleans transit
Race Screens on NOPSI 930 were typical on the 800 and 900 streetcars. Race Screens Jim Crow segregation began in the 1890s. They started in the wake of the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision. It comes as no surprise that the city where Homer Plessy and...
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