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Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way
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Product Description
The experiences and events--from the regal to the routine--that have occurred on this main New Orleans thoroughfare.
Stretching from the riverfront to the cemeteries, Canal Street has served as a place for meeting, shopping, protesting, and parading since its creation in 1807.
From white-gloved shopping trips at D.H. Holmes to department store boycotts by the NAACP, from Mardi Gras parades to Christmas displays, steamships to streetcars, Canal Street has been a gathering place full of diverse sights and sounds for 200 years.
Written by local historian and Historic New Orleans Collection curator John Magill and WYES-TV host Peggy Scott Laborde, "Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way" chronicles the evolution of this grand street and all its events, memories, failures, and successes.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1090880 in Books
- Published on: 2006-10-17
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 240 pages
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About the Author
Peggy Scott Laborde has been the senior producer and host of WYES-TV, New Orleans' PBS affiliate, since 1987. "Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way" was inspired by a documentary of the same name, which Ms. Laborde produced and narrated. The documentary aired nationally on the Travel Channel.
John Magill is the curator and head of Research Services at the Historic New Orleans Collection.
Customer Reviews
CANAL STREET
When I saw this on the shelf at Barnes and Noble I was really interested, I find New Orleans very unique and I've been down Canal many times. As I read through it, I found the text interesting and well researched, but the overall quality of the book to be very mediocre. The images are blurry, I mean I recognize that many are very old, but even the more current pics are not that crisp. I also found it odd, that there was not a good pic of Canal Street after like 1985, there is like one blurry pic, that looks like it was taken in the eighties, then some pics from Katrina, that I could have done without..do I really have to see these people looting again? Overall, unless your a real New Orleans enthusiast, I'd pass, it's very overpriced.
