New Orleans at the turn of the century looked like Paris. Most of its old buildings were demolished during the 1900s and replaced with parking lots and concrete office buildings.
I cannot fathom going there before air conditioning…
powderherfacesays
Looks a lot more like London than Paris to me, but very neat otherwise
sharkwithkneessays
I’m sorry but nothing in these pictures looks even vaguely Parisian
chiribeisays
hey, i’ve been here before with my gang, we tried to rob a bank, it went wrong, two people from our gang died, and then we ended up in guarma after our escape ship sank
Apptubrutaesays
It would be a vast overstatement to say “most” of the older buildings were demolished and replaced.
Obviously the French quarter is famous for older intact architecture.
Most every residential neighborhood is fairly intact and original as well.
The area that was most changed was the CBD. Canal street, which your picture appears to be of, changed a good bit as a major business corridor, naturally. But it still has a decent spread of older buildings to this day, more so than many similar streets across the US. New Orleans was at one point the third largest city in the US and a rapidly growing boom town so this isn’t super surprising.
The rest of the CBD, where the bigger high rises went up, was previously a black residential neighborhood famous as the birthplace of Jazz. That was basically razed to build tall buildings.
But the rest of the city? Remarkably intact. Some cities have single historic districts compromising a few dozen blocks of historic homes. New Orleans has thousands and thousands of blocks of that.
GreenAlbumsays
I really don’t know what this post is talking about. New Orleans’s center is dense and intact, all of their other historic riverfront neighborhoods are intact, and the destruction seen in some residential areas is attributable to Katrina. Also, the streets in these photos look nothing like Paris, as one commenter has already pointed out
JizuzCrustsays
I’m scanning the pictures for anything remotely like Paris but coming up empty. Is this Canal? A majority of the buildings are still there.
New Orleans is one of the best preserved cities in NAM.
blueingreen85says
This is an incredibly inaccurate description of New Orleans. It’s downtown is far, far more intact than any other major city. A lot of the CBD did get trashed in the 60s. But in other places you can walk multiple blocks and not see a see a single building built after 1920. Certain areas did far better than others. The widening of Poydras in 1965 resulted in the demolition of most of the building on the downriver side. The crescent city connection approach ramp killed many buildings as well.
Outside of downtown it’s even better. In places like the Garden District or LGD probably less than 1/20 houses are post-1920.
If you want to know more. Encourage you to read many of the books by Richard Campenella such as “New Orleans Then and Now”.
ryaninthesky123says
Am I the only one that thinks this looks nothing like Paris?
OneLargeCheesePizza says
I cannot fathom going there before air conditioning…
powderherface says
Looks a lot more like London than Paris to me, but very neat otherwise
sharkwithknees says
I’m sorry but nothing in these pictures looks even vaguely Parisian
chiribei says
hey, i’ve been here before with my gang, we tried to rob a bank, it went wrong, two people from our gang died, and then we ended up in guarma after our escape ship sank
Apptubrutae says
It would be a vast overstatement to say “most” of the older buildings were demolished and replaced.
Obviously the French quarter is famous for older intact architecture.
Most every residential neighborhood is fairly intact and original as well.
The area that was most changed was the CBD. Canal street, which your picture appears to be of, changed a good bit as a major business corridor, naturally. But it still has a decent spread of older buildings to this day, more so than many similar streets across the US. New Orleans was at one point the third largest city in the US and a rapidly growing boom town so this isn’t super surprising.
The rest of the CBD, where the bigger high rises went up, was previously a black residential neighborhood famous as the birthplace of Jazz. That was basically razed to build tall buildings.
But the rest of the city? Remarkably intact. Some cities have single historic districts compromising a few dozen blocks of historic homes. New Orleans has thousands and thousands of blocks of that.
GreenAlbum says
I really don’t know what this post is talking about. New Orleans’s center is dense and intact, all of their other historic riverfront neighborhoods are intact, and the destruction seen in some residential areas is attributable to Katrina. Also, the streets in these photos look nothing like Paris, as one commenter has already pointed out
JizuzCrust says
I’m scanning the pictures for anything remotely like Paris but coming up empty. Is this Canal? A majority of the buildings are still there.
New Orleans is one of the best preserved cities in NAM.
blueingreen85 says
This is an incredibly inaccurate description of New Orleans. It’s downtown is far, far more intact than any other major city. A lot of the CBD did get trashed in the 60s. But in other places you can walk multiple blocks and not see a see a single building built after 1920. Certain areas did far better than others. The widening of Poydras in 1965 resulted in the demolition of most of the building on the downriver side. The crescent city connection approach ramp killed many buildings as well.
Outside of downtown it’s even better. In places like the Garden District or LGD probably less than 1/20 houses are post-1920.
If you want to know more. Encourage you to read many of the books by Richard Campenella such as “New Orleans Then and Now”.
ryaninthesky123 says
Am I the only one that thinks this looks nothing like Paris?