This video combines images from four miscellaneous areas in NOLA: The Lower Garden District neighborhood, The Warehouse District, a bar at Harrah's Casino, and a streetcar that runs along the waterfront, all to the music of what is probably my favorite One-Hit Wonder.
I'd heard all about levees, but I'd never seen one in person except for one in Sacramento. So I drove south from New Orleans to find a levee I could climb and photograph. I found one at the site of an apparently moribund or suspended suburban housing development on the west bank of the river in Belle Chasse, LA.
I took a guided walking tour of the French Quarter. The guide emphasized architectural styles. This video also includes some modern buildings in the FQ, and three monuments.
A walk through the New Orleans French Quarter, beginning at Canal Street, and featuring the Jackson Square area, the French Market, and Bourbon Street.
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The large residential gardens that gave the Garden District its name are long gone, but the houses that replaced them are quaint and lushly landscaped. Streetcars running up and down the "neutral ground" of St. Charles Avenue add a lot of charm. Katrina did not harm the area in any major way.
The Ambassador hotel is located at the eastern end of the Warehouse/Arts District, not far from the French Quarter, the Convention Center and the waterfront. My room on the first floor was excellent. However, as is the case with most all of the hotels in the area, parking is pricey.
Riverwalk, situated on New Orleans' Mississippi River waterfront between the Convention Center on the west and the Hilton Hotel and the waterfront park on the east, essentially is a very nice shopping/dining mall aimed at tourists and conventioneers. You'll appreciate the air conditioning in summer!
This ferry is free to pedestrians and next-to-free for automobiles (!.00). Because the Mississippi meanders eastward through downtown New Orleans rather than continuing its overall southward flow, the ferry travels east from the "East Bank" to get to the "West Bank" in the Algiers section of NOLA (New Orlean Louisiana). I took a round-trip ride to take some pictures while catching a breeze.
The Cathedral of St. Louis King of France (Louis IX) is on Jackson Square, the focal point of the French Quarter. Unlike some other historic churces which now function as museums, the Cathedral is an actual church that holds worship services, etc. It is on the site of the original church that opened in 1727.
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Built in 1872 at the site of a former race course that had been built near the filled-in Bayou Metairie, the Metairie Cemetery has a huge number of notable "inhabitants," including many Confederate generals. The modern mausoleum leaves me at a loss for words.
This small and historic Catholic cemetery is on Basin Street, just north of the French Quarter, in the area where it is said that jazz and American music generally were born.
Cajun is not New Orleans: it's distinct from Creole, which is New Orleans. But the music and the atmosphere in this restaurant near the New Orleans Convention Center (201 Julia St.) was authentic enough for me. This video captures the sound and the atmosphere.
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