BOUNTY on the BAYOU

November 1, 2013 by Charlie London

Over 600 children arrived Halloween night to join the
Pirates of Fortier Park for Bounty on the Bayou.


 
There was music and bottled water in the park and, of course, all manner of treats for the kids supplied by Faubourg St.John neighbors. Below are just a few photos of a very Happy Halloween in Faubourg St. John:

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Go Ride the Streetcar

June 1, 2013 by Charlie London


Riding the St. Charles streetcar down its historic line is a great opportunity to see different areas of New Orleans, including the mansion lined Garden District and oak tree canopied university area of Uptown. A single ride is $1.25, or purchase a day pass for $3for unlimited rides.

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photos below by Charlie London (originally posted at FSJNAdotORG on May 24, 2012)

Upon returning from the May 10th BlightStat meeting, I had the opportunity to, once again, ride New Orleans’ fine public transportation.

Click on the map for a larger view

If you haven’t taken a ride on a New Orleans streetcar or bus lately you really are missing out.

The streetcar operator told me each one of these refurbished streetcars cost 1 million dollars!

Get a great view of New Orleans’ architecture. Take the bus or the streetcar!

Architectural Vignettes
New Orleans, with its richly mottled old buildings, its sly, sophisticated – sometimes almost disreputable – air, and its Hispanic-Gallic traditions, has more the flavor of an old European capital than an American city. Townhouses in the French Quarter, with their courtyards and carriageways, are thought by some scholars to be related on a small scale to certain Parisian “hotels” – princely urban residences of the 17th and 18th centuries. Visitors particularly remember the decorative cast-iron balconies that cover many of these townhouses like ornamental filigree cages.

European influence is also seen in the city’s famous above-ground cemeteries. The practice of interring people in large, richly adorned aboveground tombs dates from the period when New Orleans was under Spanish rule. These hugely popular “cities of the dead” have been and continue to be an item of great interest to visitors. Mark Twain, noting that New Orleanians did not have conventional below-ground burials, quipped that “few of the living complain and none of the other.”

One of the truly amazing aspects of New Orleans architecture is the sheer number of historic homes and buildings per square mile. Orleanians never seem to replace anything. Consider this: Uptown, the City’s largest historic district, has almost 11,000 buildings, 82 percent of which were built before 1935 – truly a “time warp.”

The spine of Uptown, and much of New Orleans, is the city’s grand residential showcase, St. Charles Avenue, which the novel A Confederacy of Dunces aptly describes: “The ancient oaks of St. Charles Avenue arched over the avenue like a canopy…St. Charles Avenue must be the loveliest place in the world. From time to time…passed the slowing rocking streetcars that seemed to be leisurely moving toward no special designations, following their route through the old mansions on either side…everything looked so calm, so prosperous.”

The streetcars in question, the St. Charles Avenue line, represent the nation’s only surviving historic streetcar system. All of its electric cars were manufactured by the Perley Thomas Company between 1922 and 1924 and are still in use. Hurricane Katrina flood waters caused severe damage to the steel tracks along the entire uptown and Carrollton route and had to be totally replaced and re-electrified. The cars themselves survived and are included in the National Register of Historic Places. New Orleanians revere them as a national treasure.

Creole cottages and shotgun houses dominate the scene in many New Orleans neighborhoods. Both have a murky ancestry. The Creole cottage, two rooms wide and two or more deep under a generous pitched roof with a front overhang or gallery, is thought to have evolved from various European and Caribbean forms.

The shotgun house is one room wide and two, three or four rooms deep, under a continuous gable roof. As legend has it, the name was suggested by the fact that because the rooms and doors line up, one can fire a shotgun through the house without hitting anything.

Some scholars have suggested that shotguns evolved from ancient African “long-houses,” built here by refugees from the Haitian Revolution, but no one really knows.

It is true that shotguns represent a distinctively Southern house type. They are also found in the form of plantation quarters houses. Unlike shotgun houses in much of the South, which are fairly plain, New Orleans shotguns fairly bristle with Victorian jigsaw ornament, especially prominent, florid brackets. Indeed, in many ways, New Orleans shotguns are as much a signature of the city as the French Quarter.

New Orleans’ architectural character is unlike that of any other American city. A delight to both natives and visitors, it presents such a variety that even after many years of study, one can still find things unique and undiscovered.

This material may be reproduced for editorial purposes of promoting New Orleans. Please attribute stories to New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. 2020 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70130 504-566-5019. http://www.neworleanscvb.com/.

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FORTIER PARK FESTIVAL

April 20, 2013 by Charlie London

photos and video by Charlie London
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Robert Guthrie painted this gift to the Fortier Fest while the festival was happening!
He allowed it to be auctioned off for the benefit of the park.

Everyone’s friend and neighbor, Robert Guthrie, died suddenly on Wednesday, February 26, 2014. His friends called him “Speedy”. He was known for his fun loving personality and generosity. Robert Guthrie will live on in the hearts of many.

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato
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Al Scramuzza and Allen Touissaint at the 2013 Fortier Festival

Walter “Wolfman” Washington and Allen Toussaint.

John Michael Rouchell at the 2013 Fortier Fest.

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John Michael Rouchell at the 2013 Fortier Fest.

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Bobby Wozniak and David Armond make Fortier Park what it is today!

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Bob McGuire with New Orleans City Councilperson Susan Guidry. Bob is the mastermind behind all of the Fortier Festivals.

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Rodney “Grill Master” Beals worked hard all day cooking burgers donated by Canseco’s!


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Linda Burns, Linda Landesberg and Susan Roth sold lots of tickets.

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Park Excellance

March 23, 2013 by Charlie London

photos by Charlie London. All photos were taken in Fortier Park on the afternoon of March 23, 2013.
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Fortier Park has flourished under the tutelage of Bobby Wozniak for decades. However, the tremendous beauty in Fortier Park comes at a price.

So, once again, on Saturday, April 20th, Bobby Wozniak and Bob McGuire along with the help of the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association will have the Fortier Festival. There will be a silent auction. Please bid generously to keep the best pocket park in New Orleans growing strong. And, if you’ve been to previous Fortier Festivals you know that really cool musical surprises happen at the Fortier Festival. So mark your calendar and bring lots of money on April 20th to the corner of Mystery and Esplanade in Faubourg St. John. Faubourg St. John and Fortier Park are where big dreams grow!


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Saturday in the Park

December 21, 2012 by Charlie London

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A Little Surprise Holiday Celebration in Fortier Park

Join your neighbors and bring the kids to Fortier Park this Saturday December 22 from 5:00PM – 6:30PM

Help decorate then light the beautiful Christmas tree donated by Harold’s on St. Claude Ave.

DJ “Dr. Vic” will be spinning the Holiday tunes — CCs is providing Hot Chocolate for the kids

Sip on some Eggnog donated by Cansecos (bring your own nog if you know what we mean)

Tip your hat & raise a glass to Bob “Doc” Cousins of DeBanc Pharmacy to congratulate him on his retirement. (did you know that he has been paying the light bill for Fortier Park all these years and will continue to!)

Want to help? Contact Bob McGuire 504.388.3362

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Bobby Wozniak to be Honored October 25th

July 24, 2012 by Charlie London

by David Armond | photo by Charlie London

A special Parks and Parkways Gala at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans on Thursday Oct 25 will celebrate their 30th year and honor 30 volunteers.

Bobby Wozniak happens to be one of them for a number of reasons but especially for Alcee Fortier Park in Faubourg St John. If you would like more info, visit www.parkwaypartnersnola.org or if you need tickets,email: [email protected] .

Come check out Fortier Park in its mid-summer finest this Saturday, July 28th from 9 am to Noon as Faubourg St. John continues its series of neighborhood park cleanups. Fortier Park is located at 3200 Esplanade at Mystery Street.

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Fortier Park This Saturday

July 22, 2012 by Charlie London

This Saturday, July 28 walk on over to Fortier Park.

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Come for coffee or come to help for a while! Help your neighbors, gab and laugh and plant or rake and sweep or mulch and play. Bring the kids to play, everyone is welcome!

SATURDAY MORNING | July 28th | 9 am to NOON |
3200 Esplanade Avenue

Free coffee, snacks and fun

Bring a rake or broom, bring a shovel or pruners and help keep Fortier Park the best park in the city!

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Faubourg St. John Gets Jazzed

June 10, 2012 by Charlie London



on page B-4 of the June 9, 2012 Times Picayune

JAZZ:

The FAUBOURG ST. JOHN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION organized volunteers to clean up historic Desmare Park as part of a rotating effort that started in March to clean parks and provide neighbors with a chance to socialize. The group has cleaned up Fortier Park and Capdeville Park, too.

Click here to read the Times Picayune’s coverage of the Desmare Playground cleanup.

Visit the link below to see Faubourg St. John’s post about the Desmare Playground clean up.
https://fsjna.org/2012/05/saturday-desmare-be-there/

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Sheriff Bobby

April 4, 2012 by Charlie London

David Armond sent this in via Facebook

David Armond says,

“So we all knew Bobby Wozniak was the Sheriff of Alcee Fortier Park and Faubourg St John but who knew the badge went back to 1969!”

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Beautiful Fortier Park

March 24, 2012 by Charlie London

I stopped by Fortier Park this afternoon and ran into the nice folks you see in the photo above. They indicated they were from out-of-town and decided to forgo a trip to the French Quarter so they could take in the beauty of Fortier Park and Faubourg St. John. Thanks to all of the great volunteers who helped maintain the beauty of Fortier Park this morning. And, a special thank you to Bobby Wozniak for his decades of dedication to making Fortier Park what it is today.

cellphone photos by Bonnie Lee


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COFFEE | RAKE | GAB | GARDEN

FORTIER PARK

Come for coffee or come to help for a while! Help your neighbors make a smile!. Gab and laugh and plant or rake, sweep or mulch and play. Bring the kids, bring a friend, everyone is welcome!

SATURDAY MORNING | March 24th | 9 am until NOON

3200 block of Esplanade at Mystery Street

Free coffee, snacks and fun

Bring a rake or broom, bring a shovel or pruners and help keep Fortier Park looking beautiful!

CLICK HERE to print out your very own flyer to put on your refrigerator or share with your neighbors and friends.

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100 Thousand Poets for Change

September 21, 2011 by Charlie London

Saturday, September 24, 2011 | 4-6 p.m. | Fortier Park | 3100 Esplanade


Delia Tomino Nakayama | Peter Nu | Megan Burns | Sandra Grace Johnson | Nanette Ledet | Valentine Pierce | Dennis Formento | James Paton Walsh

and 100,000 other Poets for Change | World Wide Poetic Convergence |

Saturday, September 24, 2011 | 4-6 p.m. | Alcee Fortier Park | 3100 Esplanade |
Free and open to the sky.

For more information please visit http://100TPC.org/

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