Friends of the Cabildo French Quarter Walking Tours - Did You Know?
Leah Levkowicz from Friends of the Cabildo in New Orleans, LA is featured in this segment of Did You Know?. Friends of the Cabildo French Quarter Walking Tours are at the Louisiana State Museum; A huge museum dedicated to the history and culture of Louisiana.
The Cabildo New Orleans USA
recorded on March 17, 2015
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The Cabildo, located in the French Quarter in New Orleans, is the courthouse where old courthouse where the Plessy v. Ferguson case was held at (I know you guys know about that from those high school history days lol)
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Olivier House Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana
Olivier House Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana
This balcony-fringed boutique hotel is a 1-minute walk from Bourbon Street. …
Low-key rooms and 1- and 2-bedroom suites are each unique in layout and decor and have old-world charm. All include microwaves, mini fridges and WiFi. Some include antiques, wet bars, balconies and fireplaces as well as split levels. A 1-bedroom cottage has brick floors and antique furnishings, plus a kitchen and a private courtyard.
Coffee and tea are available 24/7 in the lobby. A courtyard landscaped with tropical plants has patio seating.
Address: 828 Toulouse Street, New Orleans, LA 70112
This is an old house. When you go to their lobby, it’s full of antique / old frames & items. The doors are big old style designs. It will open almost from top of the ceiling to the floor.
Inside the house is beautiful garden. They have a grapefruit tree. There were a lot of fruits during that time that we went there. They have beautiful flowers. The room is actually a house. First floor was the living room, dining & kitchen. The 2 bedrooms are on the second floor with balcony. And 1 ½ bathrooms. It’s an old style design. It’s something different form a regular hotel. They have a pool. Then when you go outside your room, you can the streets. I like the way the buildings are designed.
French Quarter – a Neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana
The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. After New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city developed around the Vieux Carré, a central square.
This is known for it’s Mardi Gras Celebration.
There’s a lot of places to visit in this area. History of the Place, Restaurants, Attractions, Tours, Shops, Music Clubs & more…
We went to Café Du Mont. The original French Market Coffee stand. Where they serve Beignet (french doughnuts).
Went to Bourbon Street. The famous French Quarter street.
Walked at Jackson Square. It’s a plaza / park. There are horses waiting for you if you want to take a tour ride.
Then you can see the view of the Mississippi River.
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I Recommend! The Pontalba Lecture Series Begins Thursday at Cabildo!
PONTALBA EXHIBIT LECTURE SERIES
6:00PM TO 7:00PM IN THE CABILDO,
ON THE 2ND FLOOR GALLERY
**LIGHT RECEPTION FROM 5:30PM TO 6:00PM
This Thursday, January 17, my talented friend and Guest Curator, Randolph Delehanty, Ph.D., will lead the exhibition lecture at the Cabildo. I encourage you to go and soak in the rich history and the backstory of the Baroness de Pontalba and the Rise of Jackson Square Exhibition.
This is the first of three different talks regarding the exhibit presented by the Louisiana Museum Foundation (LMF) and the Louisiana State Museum. Visit the LMF's facebook page for more details.The talk is complimentary. I hope to see you there and encourage you to join me in supporting the LMF.
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NEW ORLEANS....VOODOO STILL EXIST!
NEW ORLEANS....VOODOO STILL EXIST!
NEW ORLEANS - is a Louisiana city on the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico. Nicknamed the Big Easy, it's known for its round-the-clock nightlife, vibrant live-music scene and spicy, singular cuisine reflecting its history as a melting pot of French, African and American cultures. Embodying its festive spirit is Mardi Gras, the late-winter carnival famed for raucous costumed parades and street parties.
No city in North America can compete with New Orleans when it comes to culture, food, historic architecture, joie de vivre and tourism options.
The Crescent City has suffered plagues, wars, imperial regime changes and devastating floods. Yet, it always wakes up with a smile on its face. This may be because its inhabitants step to an easy beat first laid down three centuries ago. Moving at this relaxed pace, visitors are delighted by the French Creole elegance of the Vieux Carre (French Quarter) or the opulence discovered in a streetcar ride through the Garden District and Uptown.
Anytime of year find live music, amazing Creole and Cajun cuisine, fresh seafood, farmers markets, shopping, nightlife and more. During Mardi Gras season, the city becomes the world’s center. Downtown transforms into an adult playground, while parades in residential areas provide children thrilling entertainment. Each spring, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival moves the focus to the charming Gentilly area and the Fair Grounds Race Course. But no matter the time of year, New Orleans' calendar overflows in celebration.
History
CAFE Du MONDE -The Original Cafe Du Monde Coffee Stand was established in 1862 in the New Orleans French Market. The Cafe is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It closes only on Christmas Day and on the day an occasional Hurricane passes too close to New Orleans.
. Its menu consists of dark roasted Coffee and Chicory, Beignets, White and Chocolate Milk, and fresh squeezed Orange Juice. The coffee is served Black or Au Lait. Au Lait means that it is mixed half and half with hot milk. Beignets are square French -style doughnuts, lavishly covered with powdered sugar. In 1988 Iced Coffee was introduced to the cafe. Soft drinks also made their debut that
BOURBON STREET - Noisy. Raucous. Nocturnal. For many New Orleans visitors, Bourbon Street embodies the life of a party town. The street is lit by neon lights, throbbing with music and decorated by beads and balconies. Named for a royal family in France and not the amber-colored alcohol, Bourbon Street has become a place for revelry of all sorts. With its windows and doors flung open to the wandering crowds, it should be no surprise that the famed sidewalk strolling libation known as the “go cup” was invented on Bourbon Street, according to Tulane University historian Richard Campanella. Many things change in New Orleans, but the color and excitement of Bourbon Street never falters.
ST LOUIS CATHEDRAL - The St. Louis Cathedral is one of New Orleans' most notable landmarks. Few cities in the world are so identified by a building as is New Orleans. The city is instantly recognized by our cathedral and its position overlooking Jackson Square.
This venerable building, its triple steeples towering above its historic neighbors, the Cabildo and the Presbytere - looks down benignly on the green of the Square and General Andrew Jackson on his bronze horse and on the block-long Pontalba Buildings with their lacy ironwork galleries. Truly, this is the heart of old New Orleans.
The Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France is the oldest Catholic cathedral in continual use in the United States.
As the caretakers of the Historic place of worship, we constantly battle the elements and the aging of the Cathedral with ongoing conservation and restoration. We invite you to become a Friend of the St. Louis Cathedral and help this national historic landmark remain the centerpiece in the great history of New Orleans!
VOODOO - Every year now, The Voodoo Experience, with its taglines “join the ritual,” and “worship the music,” pegs its calendar to Halloween. This has become a tradition in New Orleans, much like All Saints’ Day, when families head to the graveyards of the French Quarter and beyond to whitewash and sweep the tombs clean and decorate them with fresh flowers.
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Deservedly ranks as one of the better hotels in the U.S. We had a great location, a large junior suite, exceptional service, and decent continental breakfasts. The perks such as champagne at check in, wine and cheese reception, and nightly milk and cookies make this the place to be when in Charleston. Highly recommended.
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There's always something happening in the Big Easy (N'Awlins to the locals). Perhaps that's the reason we seemed to spend twenty hours a day on our feet while we were there! If we weren't admiring the stylish and historic French Quarter, sailing across the Mississippi on the Algiers ferry or walking around the devastated lower-ninth ward then we were probably listening to an improbably rowdy jazz band on Frenchman St. We didn't sit down much or get a great deal of sleep but we had a great time!
The French Quarter was traditionally where the Louisiana Cajun plantation owners had their winter homes, attended society functions and dressed up in ridiculous outfits for Mardi Gras. Today, the area is mostly pedestrianised and looks colourful with 18th Century Spanish colonial architecture and intricate wrought-iron balustrades running along the balconies. The grand Jackson Square and St Louis Cathedral are a focal point for the area, and (as we found) are best enjoyed whilst eating Beignet and sipping café au lait in Café du Monde. Combine this with buskers on every street corner, Cajun food and a chilled out vibe and you have yourselves an amazing city!
At night, the area really starts to hot up with the action centred around bar-lined Bourbon Street, for all intents and purposes the largest outdoor nightclub in the world! There's always music in the air, with so many bands on the street competing for your ears that you could (and we did) spend all night watching them, and not even walk through the doors of a proper bar. There are many 'hole-in-the-wall' bars that sell a variety of ridiculously strong drinks (think: '30 varieties of super-strong Daiquiri!', 'Hurricanes containing 150-proof everclear!', or 'Cherry Bombs made from 190-proof anti-freeze!'). If these don't sound strong enough, you can always opt for the ever-popular Tropical Isles Hand Grenade, advertised as 'The most powerful drink in New Orleans!' and served in a fluorescent green hand grenade shaped glass (we kept one as a souvenir of course!)
Bourbon St isn't the best place in the city for music. Rather, we were told once we'd had our fill of Bourbon St drinks to head down to Frenchman St, where a few of the clubs (Maison, the Spotted Cat and the Blue Nile for starters) had consistently excellent bands playing everything from Dixie to washboard Blues. We had three really fun nights out along these lines, always with a different crowd of people that we'd met in the hostel, or even on the streetcar!
On a more serious note, we spent one morning driving and walking around the devastated lower-ninth ward, one of the areas most affected by the post-Katrina floods. The biggest surprise for us was after five years just how many empty houses and plots there still are. Many, many former residents left before or immediately after Katrina swept through the city and haven't yet returned. Of course, you can imagine how this makes rebuilding the area, and perhaps more importantly the community very difficult. No-one yet has come up with a perfect solution, but a group of environmental consultants from California were more than happy to show us around theirs: the world's first affordable, platinum standard green houses. These were very impressive indeed. Think solar panels, recycled water and geothermal air-conditioning (strange for a state where there are no recycling facilities available, everything to eat and drink with is disposable and ...
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1. And another!
2. The drive through 4 states begins
3. Another state border
4. New Orleans downtown in the distance
5. The St Charles streetcar
6. Posh houses in the Garden District
7. Ready for Mardi Gras
8. Mardi Gras mask
9. Cheers! on Bourbon Street
10. One of the many Bourbon Street bands
11. Deserteed house in lower ninth
12. Lower ninth quarter
13. A parade we happened acrosss in lower ninth
14. C**** Street
15. Daiquiri machines
16. The Riverwalk
17. Bourbon Street hole in the wall
18. Jackson Square
19. Buskers and artists in the square
20. Buskers
21. The oldest pub in USA
22. More buskers
23. Beignet and coffee in Cafe du Monde
24. Buskers at Cafe du Monde
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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane Sale of Louisiana) was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,144,000 square kilometers or 529,920,000 acres) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), a total sum of 15 million dollars (around 4 cents per acre), for the Louisiana territory ($236 million in 2013 dollars, less than 42 cents per acre). The Louisiana territory encompassed all or part of 15 present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River; most of North Dakota; most of South Dakota; northeastern New Mexico; northern Texas; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
France controlled this vast area from 1699 until 1762, the year it gave the territory to its ally Spain. Under Napoleon Bonaparte, France took back the territory in 1800 in the hope of building an empire in North America. A slave revolt in Haiti and an impending war with Britain, however, led France to abandon these plans and sell the entire territory to the United States, which had originally intended only to seek the purchase of New Orleans and its adjacent lands.
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The UpStairs Lounge fire in New Orleans (June 24, 1973)
On the night of June 24, 1973 smoke rose and sirens sounded in the upper French Quarter as fire trucks clustered at the corner of Iberville and Chartres Streets to fight a fast-moving blaze in an second-story barroom called the UpStairs Lounge.
Unable to escape, 32 patrons died from the fire, which remains the most notorious mass murder in modern New Orleans history. Until a shooting rampage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. in June 2016, the UpStairs Lounge fire was the largest mass killing of gay people in American history. (Video by Christopher Chase Edmunds, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
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The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane Sale of Louisiana) was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq mi (2,140,000 km2; 530,000,000 acres)) by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs ($11,250,000) and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs ($3,750,000) for a total of sixty-eight million francs ($15 million, equivalent to about $302 million in 2016). The Louisiana territory included land from fifteen present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The territory contained land that forms Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; the portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River; a large portion of North Dakota; a large portion of South Dakota; the northeastern section of New Mexico; the northern portion of Texas; the area of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River (plus New Orleans); and small portions of land within the present Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Its non-native population was around 60,000 inhabitants, of whom half were African slaves.The Kingdom of France controlled the Louisiana territory from 1699 until it was ceded to Spain in 1762. In 1800, Napoleon, then the First Consul of the French Republic, hoping to re-establish an empire in North America, regained ownership of Louisiana. However, France's failure to put down the revolt in Saint-Domingue, coupled with the prospect of renewed warfare with the United Kingdom, prompted Napoleon to sell Louisiana to the United States to fund his military. The Americans originally sought to purchase only the port city of New Orleans and its adjacent coastal lands, but quickly accepted the bargain. The Louisiana Purchase occurred during the term of the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Before the purchase was finalized, the decision faced Federalist Party opposition; they argued that it was unconstitutional to acquire any territory. Jefferson agreed that the U.S. Constitution did not contain explicit provisions for acquiring territory, but he asserted that his constitutional power to negotiate treaties was sufficient.
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