Tag: Canal Street
Fixed Vote = No Vote
This sign is on a house on Canal Street. I’m not sure but I strongly suspect this may have been placed by a guy calling himself shaman_nation who popped up on the Mid-City discussion group and started posting the most inane conspiracy drivel I’ve ever read. He’d post some links and then add: But, I’m […]
Read More → Fixed Vote = No VoteSpooky
As they continue demolishing it, Physicians Hospital is now wide open. I walked in and took some pictures. Man, it’s spooky in there. Added twenty-odd pix to the continuing photoset.
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After about two months of inactivity, the demolition of the old Physicians Hospital on Canal Street has resumed. Not the historic wood frame houses — those were all torn down back in February. Now they’re pulling down the big four story concrete and steel structure. I took a bunch of pictures yesterday evening and added […]
Read More → More DemolitionDemolition Follow-Up
A few weeks ago I posted about a big demolition project which had begun just a block from our house, and how they tried to stop me from taking pictures. Thought I’d post a follow-up. The site, on the 3100 block of Canal Street (downtown side), is the Physicians Hospital complex, which old-timers know as […]
Read More → Demolition Follow-UpTeardown
We woke up this morning to the sound of major demolition. Sure enough, they’re tearing down Physicians Hospital, just like we heard they would. I don’t mourn the passage of these buildings too much. They were in pretty sad shape pre-Katrina, abandoned for years. I’m not sure if they were salvageable. My boss and I […]
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Someone hit the Jeff Davis statue again last night. The last graffiti was cleaned up in a day or two. This morning, the red spray-painted “slave owner” tag was there again, in exactly the same place, plus a generous splash of Pepto-Bismol pink. By the time I came back with a camera, the “slave owner” […]
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One fun thing about my morning ride to work is checking the Jefferson Davis statue on Canal Street to see if it’s been defaced. Looks like someone scored a major hit last night. (The “Uproar” tag actually appeared the yesterday.)
Read More → Slave OwnerStreetcar Book
Edward J. Branley gave a talk at my favorite bookstore tonight about his new book, New Orleans: The Canal Streetcar Line. I rode my bike uptown to check it out, and it was pretty cool. One of the photos in his presentation was an aerial shot of my neighborhood from 1927, and you can just […]
Read More → Streetcar BookStreetcar
After a forty-year interruption, streetcar service has been restored to Canal Street in New Orleans. The first stop, at Canal and Salcedo, is just a block and a half from our house, so I thought I’d check it out. Despite the early hour — 3:10 AM — there was a large crowd gathered there. People […]
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