Another visit to a location in the past. This time, to New Orleans in the 1950s and 1960s, with many of the images covering the usual suspects. The French Quarter, Canal Street, and the Cafe Du Monde; all nicely featuring some traffic and daily life of the period. That said, a few shots highlight less known sites and add some welcomed variety.
This time the images will appear more or less in chronological order, with approximate locations noted. We start with the image above, at Bienville St. in the French Quarter.
Café Du Monde.
Corner of Bourbon St. and Orleans.
Corner of Annunciation and Melmopene.
Corner of Pere Antoine Alley.
Canal St., circa 1963.
Uptown New Orleans.
Sheraton Charles Hotel at Charles St.
Morning Call Cafe in the French Quarter.
Like the 55 Chevy convertible with the 265 V8!
🎵 Way down yonder 🎶in New Orleans 🎵 you’ll see all kinds 🎶of scenes and even some beauty Queens 🎵 including some beautiful cars. Especially the 55 DeSoto! Loved NCIS New Orleans and long before Bourbon Street Beat. Anyone else remember that? And is Vivienne Leigh still listening to The Vehrsuvienna on A Street Car Named Desire? Sorry once I get 🤪
Let’s not forget “Longstreet” about a blind New Orleans detective. Only lasted one season in the early 70’s. IIRC, the show was filmed in Hollywood. =:-)
Now that’s a place I’d really like to time travel back too. It looks too much like Disneyland now, including the hordes of tourists.
Great to see the locale during those years—and the earlier photos convince me that the mid-1950s Chevy and Ford cars were just-right sized. Thanks for these today!
Love the over-under shotgun with real shutters.
The houses in “Up Town” look worse than the ones in my Ghetto neighborhood .
Over all these are nice pictures .
The muddy Ford & drying laundry at Corner of Annunciation and Melmopene make it look pretty low rent .
-Nate
Yeah, some depressing images among the collection.
All are good, clear pic’s though.
“The Thrill Of it All” is a “fav”, movie for me.
Cafe Du Monde was fun but we liked the beignets at the airport even better… killer good!
Beignets are truly a heavenly treat, but have a short shelf life. Over a few hours old and they turn into a cold lump of dough. Nothing better than capping off a night in New Orleans than a fresh beignet with chickory coffee at Cafe du Monde.
Huh. I now have an urge to watch ‘A Streetcar Named Desire”.
I’m re-reading *(audiobook…re-listening?) to Stephen Kings 11.22.63 again as I seem to do almost every fall, and many scenes are in TX and LA. These set the scene perfectly, especially the descriptions of Oswalds apartment at the time, as well as the cars, of course. Great finds.