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Stories Behind New Orleans Street Names

1992 Travel
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Release : 1992
Genre : Travel
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Book Synopsis Stories Behind New Orleans Street Names by : Donald A. Gill

Download or read book Stories Behind New Orleans Street Names written by Donald A. Gill. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The street names range from the rare -- Tchoupitoulas, Colapissa and Bunny Friend -- to the historical -- Desire, Barracks, and Bourbon. Here's one: Bourbon Street may be the street where booze flows freely, but it really derives its name from the House of Bourbon, whose ruler sat on the French throne when New Orleans was founded in 1718.

Dancing in the Streets

2021 African American fraternal organizations
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Release : 2021
Genre : African American fraternal organizations
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Book Rating : 829/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dancing in the Streets by : Judy Cooper

Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Judy Cooper. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the history, social ties, fashion, dance, and music of second lines, participatory parades put on by New Orleans's network of social aid and pleasure clubs. "Dancing in the Streets" brings together historical photographs with the work of ten contemporary second line photographers, profiles all clubs active today, and explores the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tradition"--

Feet on the Street

2005-02-01 Travel
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Release : 2005-02-01
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 001/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Feet on the Street by : Roy Blount, Jr.

Download or read book Feet on the Street written by Roy Blount, Jr.. This book was released on 2005-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.” So writes Roy Blount Jr. in this exuberant, character-filled saunter through a place he has loved almost his entire life—a city “like no other place in America, and yet (or therefore) the cradle of American culture.” Here we experience it all through his eyes, ears, and taste buds: the architecture, music, romance (yes, sex too), historical characters, and all that glorious food. The book is divided into eight Rambles through different parts of the city. Each closes with lagniappe—a little bit extra, a special treat for the reader: here a brief riff on Gennifer Flowers, there a meditation on naked dancing. Roy Blount knows New Orleans like the inside of an oyster shell and is only too glad to take us to both the famous and the infamous sights. He captures all the wonderful and rich history—culinary, literary, and political—of a city that figured prominently in the lives of Jefferson Davis (who died there), Truman Capote (who was conceived there), Zora Neale Hurston (who studied voodoo there), and countless others, including Andrew Jackson, Lee Harvey Oswald, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Jelly Roll Morton, Napoléon, Walt Whitman, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, Earl Long, Randy Newman, Edgar Degas, Lillian Hellman, the Boswell Sisters, and the Dixie Cups. Above all, though, Feet on the Street is a celebration of friendship and joie de vivre in one of America’s greatest and most colorful cities, written by one of America’s most beloved humorists. Also available as a Random House AudioBook

Canal Street

History
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Genre : History
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Book Rating : 882/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Canal Street written by . This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ext: general view.

New Orleans Streets

2011-01-18 Architecture
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Release : 2011-01-18
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 744/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis New Orleans Streets by : R. Stephanie Bruno

Download or read book New Orleans Streets written by R. Stephanie Bruno. This book was released on 2011-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This presentation of the neighborhoods of New Orleans offers an expert's perspective on the city's architectural diversity and details, one block at a time. New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Stephanie Bruno presents the best of her "StreetWalker" column in this illustrated resource. From the Garden District to Mid-City, each block included features photographs of the homes, a description of the buildings, and a map for easy access.

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