New Orleans Yesterday and Today: A Guide to the CityLSU Press, 2001 - 278 strani Updated by the two living original authors, this new paper edition of New Orleans Yesterday and Today provides information on recent additions to the New Orleans scene, including countless new restaurants and music venues, casino gambling, the D-Day Museum, and the Aquarium of the Americas. The book provides a well-rounded sense of New Orleans' unique and multi-faceted culture and its evolution as a city. In addition to being a help to tourists, the book will provide a refresher history course to New Orleans natives. |
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The People and Their History | 93 |
THE PEOPLE | 95 |
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 102 |
IO OLIVER POLLOCK | 113 |
LOUISIANA PURCHASE | 120 |
BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS | 127 |
THE CIVIL WAR | 133 |
RECONSTRUCTION AND AFTER | 142 |
RELIGION | 187 |
MUSIC | 197 |
RESTAURANTS AND COOKING | 205 |
Luncheon for FDR at Antoines | 209 |
LITERATURE | 215 |
Mark Twain and George Washington Cable | 217 |
ART | 222 |
A GALLERY OF PORTRAITS | 227 |
YELLOW FEVER | 154 |
TWENTIETH CENTURY | 161 |
ANDREW JACKSON HIGGINS | 173 |
The Flavor of the City | 177 |
MARDI GRAS | 179 |
WOMEN | 236 |
SPORTS | 241 |
THINGS TO DO AND SEE | 248 |
Hurricanes and Climate | 271 |
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New Orleans Yesterday and Today: A Guide to the City Walter G. Cowan,John C. Chase,Charles L. Dufour,John Wilds Predogled ni na voljo - 1983 |
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A. J. Meek Algiers American Andrew Jackson artists Audubon Avenue basketball Battle Bayou became began Behrman BIBLIOGRAPHY Bienville British building built Canal Street Carnival cemeteries Chalmette championship Charles Church city's Civil Claiborne colony Confederacy Confederate Créole Creoles cuisine early election established fire France French Quarter Gallier Garden District governor Gretna Historic New Orleans houses Jackson Square jazz Jean Jefferson John krewe Laffite later levee lottery Louis Louisiana Purchase Louisiana Superdome Mardi Gras mayor Metairie Mississippi River monument Negroes nineteenth century O'Reilly Oliver Pollock Open Orleanians Orleans Orleans Collection Orleans Museum P. G. T. Beauregard parades Parish Park Photo by A. J. Pierre Pontalba port President restaurants Sieur Spain Spanish Storyville streetcar Sugar Bowl Superdome thousand tion tombs troops Tulane Tulane Stadium Tulane University twentieth century Ulloa United Vieux Carré visitors West Bank women yellow fever