New Orleans in 1940 - A Brief New Orleans History Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2012
- New Orleans history at www.NotesonNewOrleans.net - As this well-made MGM documentary shows, really not much has changed in New Orleans since the 1940s. The buildings shown in this vid are still standing and the Huey P. Long bridge is getting a makeover. There are a few more tall buildings on the skylne.
There is one historical error in this video though. Canal Street was never a canal. It was supposed to be a canal but it was never built. But the name stuck. Huey Long's house is still there, I personally know the owners. • New Orleans in 1940 - ...
My late mother began her nursing career at Charity Hospital in the late 1940s. She loved the Sisters and loved her work. ♥️⚜️
I was born in NOLA in 1955. My father had worked at the Times Picayune since the late 1930s. I am fascinated that so many of the old buildings were fresh and new in these videos.
I love that old city. It's struggling now since Katrina. It's not really getting very much help. But that's the way it always was. Nobody outside of Louisiana gives a dang.
Sorry to hear and see they tore the times down. I feel they should have left the tower is not the same since
hey Jeff, i'm sorry to hear your complain about not helping the city after Katrina. it is such a beautiful city. I visited in 2019. i'm a real-other-continent-forner. i want to hope that if had been an American i'd something to save this city
Jeff, we New Orleanians (including I myself) have been struggling for years since Katrina and the BP oil spill. I was born in NOLA in 1995 and I’ve seen so much change go on.
My uncle was peat the pelican states idem roy amond
@@clemwhite4254 oh cool!
This video makes me grieve.
Cafe Du Monde sure looked a lot less crowded back then :)
Morning Call was packed...
It’s just a horror show, now.
I visited New Orleans last summer and it's still a majestic, magical city. I've been there 4 times since the late 90's and I love it more every time I go. Hopefully one day soon I'll be able to call this beautiful city home, because every time I leave, it calls me back, like a siren's song.
New Orleans is a shit hole, hopefully you have plenty of money to afford a nice place to live there, you don't want to be with all the poor people. It's a high crime city with corruption and nutty people. It's only good for visiting once or twice a year.
thejazzman210 I agree with you
New Orleans is indeed a lovely place
The architecture and history
And the food oh Lord the food
They have a problem with crime but still when you leave new orleans calls you back.
It was lovely, but I couldn't handle the weather.
thejazzman210 It's fun but very DANGEROUS....you better have plenty of money so you can be living in a safe place with high security....
@@Kamath.venkat your the trash
Actually there was never a canal on Canal Street. There was a Carondelet Canal connecting Bayou St Louis to the "Old Basin" behind the original French/Spanish city (near Congo Square). Later there was a New Basin canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain to what is now the Central Business District in the "American" sector (where the Union Terminal RR station stands today). Both were eventually filled in when they became obsolete and a hindrance to traffic. What is now Canal Street was the no-man's land between the French and American sectors, appropriately referred to as the "neutral ground" between the two, which ultimately was the natural place for a bustling downtown area to develop. The reason it became such a wide thoroughfare was that when the city was laid out the land adjacent to the upriver bound of the Vieux Carre was reserved for a contemplated future canal, so none of the land was available for private ownership. The canal was never built.
"The canal was never DUG (not "built", lol), but you're right about the history of New Orleans and the French quarter and downtown district! 👍 ⚜️⚜️⚜️
@ericgreen
Born in 1952 , I am so home sick to go home again. Retired from the Marine Corps and I am in California. I love this city. Mardi Gras!!!!!
We live in Poplarville Mississippi sadly no longer get to go even this close to dangerous
Thanks for the upload. It's nice to see the city in 1940 in a color video, and not just black and white photos.
That damned bridge will scare you to death!!! It shakes....too narrow!!!
It has been widened. Much better now :)
Yes waaaay better
It's been widened and much improved, but I've done my share of white-knuckle driving across that span in the old days.
Born and raised…amazing most of this stuff still there.
There was never a canal on Canal St it was never dug.
Great piece of film!
Canal use to be a canal they covered it up get your facts in line
@@81johnmac1 no it was not sorry to have to correct you
@@81johnmac1 you might be thinking of the new basin canal but it was never a Canal where canal st is if there had been in the city would’ve been flooded 30 or 40 times.
Google old basin canal or carondelet canal watch I see it ran into canal street the pumping station at broad st and St. Louis st still there that canal still there it use to be used until 1920s and it connected to canal street go get your facts together
@@81johnmac1 you’re a clown 🤡
I enjoy it!Next week I'm going to visit New Orleans and I'm sure I will be delighted.
Love the accompanying music...
I live in New Orleans and it is as gorgeous as ever!
RK Champagne I live in Paris & in 1982, when I was 16, I I worked for half of my summer vacation to spend a month In the US. I spent 3 days in NY then took a Greyhound all the way to Mobile AL where I stayed for 3 weeks. They were fantastic & we went to FLA MISS & LOUIISIANA... I havé been in love with New Orleans ever since. There is no other place like it in the world & I havé been fortunate to travel extenso élu on all 5 continents . I am planning a trip to Austin TX & have planes à stopover in La Nouvelle Orléans !!!
Me too.💜💚💛⚜️
@@GiseleLeaLEIBOVITCH200566 Bienvenue!
Lol its a shithole and murder capital of the world!
@@theemeraldfox7779 Then stay away.
Interesting video but there never was a navigable canal on Canal Street in New Orleans. The Carondelet barge Canal was on St. Louis St. and the New Basin Canal was out by the Jefferson Parish line. You would think MGM would have gotten their facts straight.
They were probably told this by a tour guide. I'm just happy the MGM video doesn't say anything about vampires...
When was the awning built on Cafe du Monde?
Amazing. The city in her beautiful prime. I am too young to have seen this, but my mother and relatives were there as kids. Like them, it breaks my heart to see they third world country that most of the city has become.
Thanks to the hand of white folks that's why I became a third world country as you speak but to me it's still home f*** what you talking about
It's always been a "third world country". Therein lies its charm.
New Orleans, queen of the south 1803-1965
4:43 Cafe Du Monde. It sure looks different now. In fact, it's so hard to get a seat and the lines are so long, you'd do better going to the Cafe du Monde in City Park.
Or the one in the riverwalk mall
Or go really early 530-6 am
much better to go to P.J’s! best coffees from Phyllis Jordan’s - starting in 1978 uptown on Maple
I think this was the original one, but there are many more now. This one is at the French Market at the river. Not the huge one with the long lines you always see on tv.
Yeah, that’s because today it’s packed full with tourists. Back in the day, it had lots of locals.
I miss living in new orleans
MGM's Famed Travelogue Division. The Animation Studio Did Nice Comic Take offs of those Documentaries.🎭🚋🚂
New Orleans, my home town.
3:00 still pickin that shit
Oh how much has changed on the past 80 years!
Huey P. Long wanted a bridge near New Orleans, but not at New Orleans because he was a bitter political rival of New Orleans Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, who Long referred to as "Turkey Neck." The bridge was constructed in an undeveloped area in Jefferson Parish just west of New Orleans. It wasn't until 1958 that a bridge spanned the Mississippi River at New Orleans.
Yeah, Huey stuck the bridge where he did as a big "fuck you" to New Orleans, which was the centre of anti-Long political resistance that, at times, threatened to turn into armed resistance. Wild days in Louisiana, then. Lingering animosity toward New Orleans from the central and northern parishes of the state springs from that time.
The HPL Bridge's opening day was a tumultuous event. New Orleans radio station WSMB, a clear-channel station, chose to broadcast the ceremony live. When New Orleans Mayor Walmsley went to the podium, 15 minutes of solid booing ensued over the airwaves, much to the chagrin of the radio station's employees present at the remote broadcast. Officials asked the crowd to stop the booing, however, they continued to do so unabated. It was only when a crying Blanche Long begged them to stop that they ceased their loud vocal displeasure of Walmsley. After the bridge's opening ceremony was concluded, both the Long and anti-Long factions attended a large reception at Seymour Weiss's Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. Each faction stayed at opposite ends of the reception hall.
No mention of the Vieux Carre--!
So odd seeing the skylime without One shell square
Or the ITM building, the Dome, the Marriott and Sheraton hotels, the Plaza Tower, the Aquarium of the Americas, the Riverwalk or Woldenberg Park. When the Hibernia Bank Building, the American Bank Building, and Charity Hospital were the tallest buildings in the city, and the L&N railroad terminal was at the ferry landing along with the original Rivergate where Spanish Plaza now is. And no I-10 overpass at Canal & Claiborne either. Weird yet familiar because so much of the city we know today is still there in 1940.
The creative class of people and the cultural economy driven by them are still here, alive and well.
This was always what made New Orleans great, and why it's embedded in the American psyche.
they left out bourbon st.
Good
@pannoni4 just a little bias on the part of the reporter, MAYBE?
Wasn't as popular then
See the second Travel Talk film about New Orleans Travel Talks: Old New Orleans, they did the same thing during the French Quarter segments.
can we have subtitles please
I’m so thrilled that one City still has running streetcars. People looked so classy then, women in dresses, and men in top hats. What happened?.
Great place. NOLA 🦋
yeoo whats good harboschool heads, its ya boy Danny from class of 2020, hows Ablins class going for you guys?
LOL! Huey Long's REGIME.. That about sums it up.
in 1940 we were living in the Lower Pontalba, with the smell of fish when we went to the Morning Call for beignets and
coffee. The sound of the calliope rippled as the Queen prepared to depart from her dock at the foot of Canal, and we smelled the scent of beer from the Jax brewery or the roasting coffee from the Community coffee plant
Where is the Huey Long House?
1920s Mediterranean Revival house is at 14 Audubon Boulevard
3:00 So like...are we going to talk about this or?
p.s. I laughed at how wrong this just was holy crap dude.
Talk about what? There is nothing to talk about.
La Nouvelle-Orléans ❤️💋
More of the churches should have been included in this film.
My adopted home town. I will see it rise again….
Re-New Orleans.
Lmao,no you wont,it's a shithole and the murder capital of the world!!!
Fallout New Orleans
Huey p Newton was named after Huey p long he was from Monroe la
Who is dat?
Huey P. Newton was the co-founder (along with Bobby Seale) of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960's.
You don't know anything about New Orleans my family goes back to the founding of the Great City of New Orleans my Home Sweet Home
new orleeinz
Now New Orleans is a crumbling, crime riddled, cesspool.
Now run by criminals stay home
Humidity
Okay, so ....?
Okay, so .... ?
There's no soil in New Orleans only Clay
Now it’s just thugs
Sad that a once beautiful city has been destroyed by gangs,murderers,and criminals. What a waste!!!
david19729163 new Orleans has always been a criminal city ever since it's founding
Criminals and scammers theives dwell in that city like mosquitos in the swamps but that's what makes new Orleans new Orleans.
@@orleanslouisian3886 correct! I laugh at how everyone thinks life was so much better and less crime filled. Im happy now because I get to see it. Not an option for me in the past.
@@Pandababy1950 Yes Nola pre 1900s had crime but not the modern type crime of being robbed at gunpoint or random murders.It was at worst be mugged at knife point or a break-in.Starting around 78 and exploding in the mid 80s crime became extreme in quality and quantity.The combination of middle class migration to the suburbs,Oil economy exit from region and illegal drug use explosion esp crack/heroin caused a crime epidemic that set the city back years.In the late 90s a new police chief along with the expansion of the tourist/service economy helped reduce the crime problem.The city still has crime but not nearly as bad.With the continued gentrification by out of town newcomers becoming homeowners because of the affordable housing versus other cities like NYC,the neighborhoods are becoming safer and the new tax base affords better services like police.This has caused crime to move to poorer areas like new Orleans east but thats just what happens.At least the amazing architectural housing stock is being saved from neglect and families that owned their house s for generations can now live a better life since the city is becoming civil/viable again.In fact the value of some areas has changed significantly so if they wanted to sell their house they would get a very good price.That along with the city having become world class reviews the investment in the city continues to grow in significant ways.
Uh... That's who founded the original city. Can't deny that. Pirates, can't forget them...
In order to get people to move to Louisiana when it was founded they had prisoners move to the swamp now known as New Orleans. New Orleans was also a major point for pirates. Pirates were also one of the reason for the winning of the revolutionary war against Britain. Not to mention the many branches of the mafia that resided there. Matter of fact my ancestors were part of the New Orleans mafia. Crime has always been a thing from the very start of the settlement.
That’s back when New Orleans was a majority white city.
When it was at its best!!
@@theemeraldfox7779 Yeah you right!
Race doesn't matter
New Orleans was never majority white, especially not any point in the 1900s
When was New Orleans ever majority white?!? How do you think New Orleans got its very rich culture. It started off as being very diverse. New Orleans has a mixture of cultures. That’s why its food and music is unique only to New Orleans.
He wasn’t lying at 0:40 when he said the people of Louisiana were largely in DEBTed…
Too bag LaToya Cantrell is bringing it to an end.
Thank goodness the Millennials came after Katrina to bring a strong backbone back to this city. Katrina was a blessing in disguise.
Lmfao 🤡
You can say something like that of course because you're an idiot.
Dis shit old an raggedy now
Just go buy yourself a new dress. I am sure it will make a difference.
Ragged as yo mama?
That was New Orleans? it looked like Paris. It is such a shame how western cities are declining because of..umm... you know.
No, we don't! Please elaborate.
The main reason why New Orleans went into decline is because they waited too late get a railroad and were too dependent on sea/river trade. This allowed Chicago, a city with a railroad, to surpass us.
And I lived in Paris. It's looks nothing like Paris. Look more like Cap Haitien or Veracruz, or Santo Domingo.
Joshua Leonardo Have you ever heard of Hurricane Katrina? That's what caused the major decline
You're right, it has more of a Spanish theme. Thus, the original settlers BEFORE the French. The architecture is Spanish.
there is nothing progressive about New Orleans now...
Shithole and murder capitol of the world!
Only if these people knew it would be destroyed 80 years later by Latoya