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others played concerts at the Francs Amis Hall at 1820 North Robertson. Many renowned musicians lived close to the Francs Amis Hall. Armed with research of Jack Stewart and Don Marquis, the Preservation Resource Center has placed plaques on some of those houses noting the presence of drummer Louis Barbarin (1813 North Robertson), Victor Gaspard (1725 North Robertson), and Danny Barker (1722 North Robertson). Jelly Roll Morton lived at 1441-33 Frenchmen Street. The home of Reliance Brass Band leader George V. “Papa Jack” Laine is located at 2424 Chartres Street. By 1937, a fire station occupied the triangular block at the corner of Esplanade and Chartres as it does today. Franklin Pontchartrain Railroad’s tracks were being uprooted from Elysian Fields to be replaced with trees and landscaping. My stretch of Burgundy consisted of Kennedys, Waguespacks, Canatellas, Serailes, and Labranos. Peter “Pete the Hatter” Dolbick cleaned and blocked hats at the corner of Burgundy and Touro. “Miss Annie” Tedesco’s store on Touro St. handed out lagniappe — free treats for kids. Similarly, Miss Salone’s store on North Rampart sold two-for-a-penny cookies along with pig lips and pig feet. Near St. Anthony Street, the yellow light of a snowball stand beckoned. The street had a healthy commerce. There were shoe stores, Mr. Farmer’s hobby shop, Doerr Furniture Store, IN NEW ORLEANS’ANCESTRAL NEIGHBORHOODS,A HOME IS MORE THAN THE LAND, BUILDING, OR ASKING PRICE. IT IS FUNDAMENTALLY A COMMUNITY WITH A RICH LEGACY AND STORIES TO TELL. Roosevelt’s Depression-era Works Progress Administration offered classes in the building at the corner of Decatur and Frenchmen. Across from Washington Park on Royal Street, the Carnegie Library Branch No. 1 stood next door to Holy Redeemer Church which was destroyed by Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and never rebuilt. GROWING UP MARIGNY I grew up on Burgundy Street in Faubourg Marigny during the 1950s and 1960s — just around the time the The Desire streetcar line once traversed the Faubourg Marigny, only to be replaced after 1948 by buses. Benny’s Musical Instrument repair shop, and a Union Hall for aluminum workers in the bank building at the corner of Burgundy and Touro. Across the street from the bank stood the Lautenschlaeger fish and meat market. An Esso Service station offered “Four Way Auto Service” in the curve at St. Anthony Street. Mr. Alfred Jeanmarie, the neighborhood vegetable man, and his son Junior made daily rounds through Marigny in his truck laden with produce from the French Market. I made two dollars a day one summer working on the truck, delivering bags to Summer 2008/LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 45 THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION

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Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 Contents Friends Editor’s Column Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities George Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs & Beyond Katrina The Historic New Orleans Collection After The Flood Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” Preserving New Orleans Jazz, One Generation at a Time: Conversation & Music with Tom Sancton Louisiana Foodways Louisiana Architecture Baton Rouge Photographs, 1863-1910 Jazz Notes The Ogden Museum of Southern Art Louisiana Association of Museums Nature of the “Beast” Louisiana State Museum Bookstand Sound Advice Forum

Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008

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