Take the Streetcar to the Bar

October 28, 2014 by Charlie London

streetcar bar maps courtesy THRILL LIST

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In Faubourg St. John you can walk to Pal’s or Swirl or grab a drink at many of the restaurants in Faubourg St. John.

If you must leave the neighborhood then take the streetcar.

Why would anyone drink and drive when they can take the streetcar?

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Dark Green Line
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St. Charles Streetcar (Dark Green Line)

South Claiborne Ave – None
Oak St – Maple Leaf Bar
South Carrollton Ave/Riverbend – Cooter Brown’s Tavern & Oyster Bar
Broadway St – The Palms Bar & Grill
Tulane University/Audubon Park and Zoo – None
Loyola University – None
Jefferson Ave – The Kingpin
Napoleon Ave – Fat Harry’s
Louisiana Ave – The Delachaise
Washington Ave – The Victorian Lounge (The Columns Hotel)
Jackson Ave – Igor’s Lounge & Gameroom
MLK Jr. Blvd/Melpomene St – The Irish House
Lee Circle – Circle Bar
Julia St – St. Charles Bar and Billiards
Poydras St – Club Car Lounge
Union St – Lüke
Common St – Dominic’s
Carondelet St/Bourbon St – 21st Amendment at La Louisiane
Gravier St – Voodoo Two
Poydras St – CellarDoor
Julia St –Tivoli & Lee

 

Yellow
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Loyola-UPT Streetcar (Yellow Line)

Union Passenger Terminal – None
Julia St – Bywater Pool Deck and Bar (Hyatt Regency Hotel)
Poydras St – Little Gem Saloon
Tulane Ave – None
Rampart St – Davenport Lounge (Ritz-Carlton Hotel)
Carondelet St/Bourbon St – 21st Amendment at La Louisiane
Royal St/St. Charles Ave – The Carousel Bar & Lounge (Hotel Monteleone)
Camp St/Chartres St – SoBou
Magazine St/Decatur St – Loa (International House Hotel)
Peters St (Harrah’s Casino) – Besh Steak
Canal St (Algiers & Gretna Ferries) – The Green Bar (The Westin Hotel)
Bienville St – St. Lawrence
Toulouse St – Crescent City Brewhouse
Dumaine St – Tujague’s
Ursulines Ave – Gazebo Cafe
French Market – Molly’s at the Market

Light Green
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Canal Streetcar: City Park/Museum (Light Green Line)

City Park & Museum of Art – Parkview Tavern
Orleans Ave – Pearl Wine Co.
Bienville St – Felipe’s Taqueria
Carrollton Ave – Red Door
Jefferson Davis Pkwy – Bayou Beer Garden
White St – Chickie Wah Wah
Broad St – None
Galvez St – None
Elk Place/Basin St – None
Rampart St – Davenport Lounge (Ritz-Carlton Hotel)
Carondelet St/Bourbon St – 21st Amendment at La Louisiane
Royal St/St. Charles Ave – The Carousel Bar & Lounge (Hotel Monteleone)
Camp St/Chartres St – SoBou
Magazine St/Decatur St – Loa (International House Hotel)
Peters St (Harrah’s Casino) – Besh Steak

Red Line
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Canal Streetcar: Cemeteries (Red Line)

Cemeteries – Bob Roth’s Lounge
Carrollton Ave – Red Door
Jefferson Davis Pkwy – Bayou Beer Garden
White St – Chickie Wah Wah
Broad St – None
Galvez St – None
Claiborne Ave – Handsome Willy’s
Elk Place/Basin St – None
Rampart St – Davenport Lounge (Ritz-Carlton Hotel)
Carondelet St/Bourbon St – 21st Amendment at La Louisiane
Royal St/St. Charles Ave – The Carousel Bar & Lounge (Hotel Monteleone)
Camp St/Chartres St – SoBou
Magazine St/Decatur St – Loa (International House Hotel)
Peters St (Harrah’s Casino) – Besh Steak

Blue Line
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Riverfront Streetcar (Blue Line)

John Churchill/Chase St – Dino’s Bar and Grill
Julia St – Republic
Poydras St – Café Adelaide & the Swizzle Stick Bar
Canal St (Algiers & Gretna Ferries) – The Green Bar (The Westin Hotel)
Bienville St – St. Lawrence
Toulouse St – Crescent City Brewhouse
Dumaine St – Tujague’s
Ursulines Ave – Gazebo Cafe
French Market – Molly’s at the Market

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bar, drink, drink and drive, fun, map, New Orleans, streetcar

Streetcars in Faubourg St. John 1927

April 21, 2013 by Charlie London

Many thanks to Gary Parky for sharing his 1927 streetcar map!

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What is now Desmare Playground was the Esplanade Barn in 1927.
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The Arabella Barn is now Whole Foods on Magazine.
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Reported in the Times Picayune newspaper:
November 1, 1901
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Reported in the Times Picayune newspaper:
April 28, 1873

ORLEANS RAILROAD.

– Owing to the energy shown by the officers and directors of this company, the double track on Broad Street and Grand Route Saint John is completed. In consequence of this wise improvement, the line of this company is now the shortest from Canal street to the Fair Grounds. The cars run without change as far as the turning-table, opposite the central gate of the Fair Grounds, fronting on Savage Street, between the third and fourth building, a few steps from the stand. The Orleans Railroad cars start without interruption, from the Clay Statue, corner of St. Charles and Canal Streets.
Click here to view the original article from April 28, 1873.

July 3, 1868

Inauguration of the Orleans City Railroad

The first trip over the Orleans City Railroad was made the occasion of a pleasant excursion yesterday.

About 6 o’clock p.m. the officers of the road – President, George Clark; Secretary, Jules Benit; Directors, G.W. Hynson, D.B. Macarthy, B. Saloy, Joseph Hernandez, L.E. Lemarie and Frances Mouney – together with a large number of stockholders and invited guests, proceeded from opposite the office of the company, on Dauphine street, in two of the bright, new and elegant cars provided for the occasion, to travel over the length of the road and make as thorough an inspection of the same as circumstances would admit.
The route of the road is down Dauphine to Dumaine, out Dumaine to Broad, down Broad and beneath the overhanging branches of the trees that line this street, to Laharpe, and down Laharpe to the terminus of the road, where the spacious though as yet incomplete stables, etc., of the company are situate.(now Stallings Playground)
The depot is located on two squares of ground situate at the head of Bayou Savage, and near the Gentilly Road.
Though, the buildings have not been completed, the stables will be ready to afford shelter to the animals by tomorrow, when twelve cars will be placed upon the line.
Returning to the city the route passes down Grand Route Saint John, up Dumaine street to Broad, and thence by St. Peter and Basin streets to Canal.
After the excursion there was a very delightful collation spread at the office of the company, at which the greatest good feeling prevailed, and many toasts were drank to the success of the road, etc.
Click here to view the original article from July 3, 1868.


Click on the map for larger view and to see the dotted lines where the streetcars ran.
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research by Charlie London

On June 6, 1883, the Times Picayune reported the following:
“A boy named Albert Musgrove while running after a street car at the corner of Esplanade and Grand Route St. John, at 7 o’clock yesterday morning, fell and fractured his arm. Dr. Souchon attended the boy at his residence, No. 108 Grand Route St. John.”

Click here to see the original article from 1883

Filed Under: HISTORY Tagged With: 1927, bayou st john, car, faubourg st john, map, New Orleans, public, street, streetcar, transportation, trolley

Postcard from Home

July 8, 2012 by Charlie London


Streetcar postcard from carcabin.com

Look for a POSTCARD from HOME every Sunday at FSJNAdotORG

Filed Under: Postcards from Home Tagged With: New Orleans, postcard, streetcar

Switchbox Mural

July 5, 2012 by Charlie London

photos by Charlie London

Thanks to Howard Mielke for breaking this story. Howard says, “I met the painter Joseph Anthony Pearson who, at the time I met him, was painting colorful images on the metal box at the City Park/Museum streetcar stop. Our community is full of amazing talents and good hearted souls.”


For anyone interested in portraits or other artwork Joseph has a studio at 4436 Toulouse Street in mid-city and his contact information is 615-4998 or email: [email protected]

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Utility Art Boxes Phase I
1. Harrison & Canal Blvd (COMPLETED)
2. City Park Avenue & Marconi (COMPLETED)
3. 6-10 Junction & Canal Blvd. (2 boxes)
4. Fleur de Lis & Veterans (Lakewood North side)
5. Harrison & West End
6. Robert E. Lee & Canal Blvd. (lakeview side)
7. Canal Blvd. & Filmore
8. Canal Blvd. & Navarre
9. Harrison & Marconi
10. Regent St. & Robert E. Lee
11. Pontchartrain & Robert E. Lee (on Hammond hwy side)
12. West End & Veterans

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http://www.cvunola.org/#!page-7

The New Orleans Street Gallery has launched into high gear. Thanks to the generous donation of AT&T ,help from Councilmember Guidry we are able to launch our Art Box project. This project is aimed at creating beauty and economic development through works of art. Linking to the rich art heritage that thrives in many neighborhoods in New Orleans, Community Visions Unlimited has adopted a plan to revitalize New Orleans neighborhoods with an Arts focus. Introducing the utility art box program will result in increased business for the merchants as well as a sense of pride for people of all ages and nationalities in the community. It will also create tourism in areas that are in recovery.

This goal of economic improvement through art fits perfectly into Community Visions goal of revitalization of neighborhoods and assisting the local art community to rebuild. Local artists as well as members of the community will be invited to donate their time and talent to create colorful graphic designs onto street utility boxes.

http://www.cvunola.org/#!page-7

Filed Under: Featured, HISTORY Tagged With: art, bayou, bayou st john, faubourg, faubourg st john, mural, museum, New Orleans, stop, streetcar, switchbox

Million Dollar Ride

May 24, 2012 by Charlie London

by Charlie London

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

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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/.

Filed Under: Featured, HISTORY, Magical Mystery Tour Tagged With: bayou, bayou st john, bus, faubourg st john, million dollar ride, New Orleans, public transportation, streetcar

Day Tripping

December 29, 2011 by Charlie London

article and photos by Charlie London

Those over 50 likely remember the Beatles’ song Day Tripper.
If you don’t, click on the video below.

My day trip started with my wife giving me a ride to City Hall so I could participate in the public commentary on the location of the Skate Park that drink manufacturer Red Bull is donating to New Orleans.

Mr. Vincent Smith, Capital Projects Administrator for the City of New Orleans basically repeated the information you can find in my previous blog post in the link below:
https://fsjna.org/2011/12/skate-park-meeting-at-city-hall-wednesday/

There were large poster boards explaining the selection criteria which you can see in the link below:
https://fsjna.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Skate-Park-Site-Selection-Criteria.pdf

I asked if the Skate Park would have a fence built around it. Mr. Smith replied that it would not and added that the preference for the Skate Park is for an area that already is “secure”. Meaning that parks that already have gates and regular opening and closing times would have preference.

That would almost certainly disqualify the Lafitte Corridor as it is open 24 hours each day. So, if you are interested in a Skate Park in Mid-City you should likely get busy asking for it.

I asked about better public input. I work at night so I have the luxury of attended a few daytime meetings. Most people don’t. With meetings that begin at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. that leaves most folks out of the planning process for the Skate Park. Mr. Smith indicated that people should be able to comment by phone and on the internet soon.

There were about 10 people who attended the meeting. Michael Homan, his son Gil and myself were there on behalf of the Lafitte Corridor. Councilmember Jon Johnson and several others were there to promote the Skate Park going in at Joe Brown Park in New Orleans East and a couple of people were there to try to get the Skate Park in Martin Behrman Memorial Park in Algiers.

Regardless of whether you are for or against a Skate Park make your opinion known to Councilmember Guidry at [email protected] *** Follow Gil Homan’s lead and make your voice heard.

My day trip continued with a walk from City Hall down Loyola where I encountered this new and innovative bus stop at Tulane and Loyola. It’s been there about one week.

I continued my day trip to Canal Street where I waited for the streetcar to take me all the way to Esplanade Avenue by the museum. The newly restored Joy Theatre was across from the streetcar stop and the first performance will be by Irma Thomas tonight.

If you have the time, I highly recommend riding the streetcar downtown from or to the museum. And, don’t forget you can get on the Esplanade Bus at Fortier Park which will take you right to the French Quarter. Both the busses and streetcars are very clean.

It’s only $1.25 each way and sure beats paying much more to park your car, that is… if you have the time. The streetcar and bus schedules are getting better but aren’t quite up to running exactly on time.

(courtesy youtube user kouran92)

Filed Under: Featured, HISTORY Tagged With: bayou st john, corridor, faubourg st john, fsjna, greenway, joy, lafitte, lafitte corridor, New Orleans, park, skate, skate park, streetcar, theatre

1873: Faubourg St. John Streetcar

December 2, 2011 by Charlie London

research by Charlie London

Reported in the Times Picayune newspaper:
April 28, 1873

ORLEANS RAILROAD.

– Owing to the energy shown by the officers and directors of this company, the double track on Broad Street and Grand Route Saint John is completed. In consequence of this wise improvement, the line of this company is now the shortest from Canal street to the Fair Grounds. The cars run without change as far as the turning-table, opposite the central gate of the Fair Grounds, fronting on Savage Street, between the third and fourth building, a few steps from the stand. The Orleans Railroad cars start without interruption, from the Clay Statue, corner of St. Charles and Canal Streets.
Click here to view the original article from April 28, 1873.

July 3, 1868

Inauguration of the Orleans City Railroad

The first trip over the Orleans City Railroad was made the occasion of a pleasant excursion yesterday.

About 6 o’clock p.m. the officers of the road – President, George Clark; Secretary, Jules Benit; Directors, G.W. Hynson, D.B. Macarthy, B. Saloy, Joseph Hernandez, L.E. Lemarie and Frances Mouney – together with a large number of stockholders and invited guests, proceeded from opposite the office of the company, on Dauphine street, in two of the bright, new and elegant cars provided for the occasion, to travel over the length of the road and make as thorough an inspection of the same as circumstances would admit.
The route of the road is down Dauphine to Dumaine, out Dumaine to Broad, down Broad and beneath the overhanging branches of the trees that line this street, to Laharpe, and down Laharpe to the terminus of the road, where the spacious though as yet incomplete stables, etc., of the company are situate.(now Stallings Playground)
The depot is located on two squares of ground situate at the head of Bayou Savage, and near the Gentilly Road.
Though, the buildings have not been completed, the stables will be ready to afford shelter to the animals by tomorrow, when twelve cars will be placed upon the line.
Returning to the city the route passes down Grand Route Saint John, up Dumaine street to Broad, and thence by St. Peter and Basin streets to Canal.
After the excursion there was a very delightful collation spread at the office of the company, at which the greatest good feeling prevailed, and many toasts were drank to the success of the road, etc.
Click here to view the original article from July 3, 1868.


Click on the map for larger view and to see the dotted lines where the streetcars ran.
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Filed Under: HISTORY Tagged With: 1868, 1873, bayou st john, broad, dumaine, faubourg st john, fsjna, grand route, history, New Orleans, streetcar

1883: Boy Breaks Arm Chasing Streetcar

November 29, 2011 by Charlie London

research by Charlie London

On June 6, 1883, the Times Picayune reported the following:
“A boy named Albert Musgrove while running after a street car at the corner of Esplanade and Grand Route St. John, at 7 o’clock yesterday morning, fell and fractured his arm. Dr. Souchon attended the boy at his residence, No. 108 Grand Route St. John.”

Click here to see the original article from 1883

Filed Under: Featured, HISTORY Tagged With: 1883, bayou st john, faubourg st john, fsjna, grand, history, john, New Orleans, route, st., streetcar, times picayune

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