New Orleans city magazine for locals

Infrogmation, 1 day ago

Old tile signs in New Orleans.

1. Angelo Brocato. Ursulines St French Quarter. Ice cream shop here 1921 - 1981.
2. Cigars & Tobacco. Camp Street, Central Business District. Probably for Lannis Bros Cigars, here c. 1889 - 1905.
3. J. Disimone’s Restaurant. Carondelet Street, Uptown. The “597” was the address before 1895 renumbering.
   4)“For Restful Sleep”. Broad, Mid-City. Sandman logo of Crescent Bed factory here 1910-1961.
   @noladon
   #NOLA #NewOrleans #GhostSigns #Tiles #TilesTuesday

Tile work in sidewalk in front of step into doorway. In decorative rectangular blue and white border, against grey background are blue letters with white outlines. Text: "CIGARS & TOBACCO".
Blue tiles with white lettering with black outlines laid in grey concrete sidewalk. Text: "J DISIMONE'S - 597 - RESTAURANT".
Concrete sidewalk has tile mosaic. White background. Artwork depicts a small fairy tale style man wearing a feathered cap, a red cloak, and green leggings. He stands within a crescent moon. With one hand he holds a white bag labeled "SAND". with the other hand he scatters some grey sand down to the ground. Text in black letters at bottom: "For Restful Sleep".

Infrogmation, 16 days ago

New Orleans signs: "Mama" edition, in honor of US Mother's Day.

1. Mama Rosa's, Rampart Street, French Quarter.

2. Nacho Mama's, Magazine Street, Uptown.

3. Mama Roux, Krewe du Vieux parade 2006 (first Carnival parade after the Hurricane Katrina Federal Flood).

4. I Bet Ya Mama Like It, Food truck on Orleans Avenue, Mid-City.

Photographed by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA
#NewOrleans #signs #Mama #Mother #Mother'sDay

Streetscape of 2 story buildings with balconies, restaurants with tables along the sidewalk. Painted wooden sign hangs from pole, text "NACHO MAMA'S - Mexican Grill - NOLA". Cartoon artwork of a woman seen from waist up; she wears a green dress and a flower in her hair, she smiles and plays castanets. To her right is a large red chili pepper.
Small parade float, raised section with large letters reading: "Mama Roux - HOME is where the TARP is". The float is decorated with blue FEMA tarps and multiple plastic signs as common in the months of slow recovery after the Hurricane Katrina Federal Flood disaster in New Orleans, advertising services with telephone numbers. Various sign texts seen: "DEMO JOE - House Gutting - Local Boys". "I Buy Scrap Copper Wire". "We Tear Down Houses to the Ground". "We Sue". "Flooded by Katrina - Screwed by FEMA".
Colorfully painted food truck parked on street, with 2 story house in background. Central artwork depicts a slightly anthropormophized crawfish wearing a chef's hat and smock. Text above: "EFF ya CHEF". Text at left: "Oysters - Stuffed Burgers - Shrimp - Concoction Corn - Wings". Text at right: "I bet YA MAMA like it".

Infrogmation, 19 days ago

New Orleans jazz venue the Palm Court Cafe will close next month, after 35 years in business.

Offbeat:
https://www.offbeat.com/news/palm-court-jazz-cafe-announces-closure-after-35-years/

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #jazz

Infrogmation, 26 days ago

New Orleans stale beer signs volume II, Regal edition. (Regal was brewed by American Brewing Company on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter c 1891-1961)

1. Elizabeth's Restaurant, Bywater (old signage since restored)
2. Snake & Jakes, Carrollton (also since restored)
3. Dixie Tavern, Lower Garden District
4. Advertising clock, seen in bar in Carrollton.

Photographed by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #beer #signs #advertising

A small neighborhood bar in a decrepit looking building with tarped roof. To one side of door is faded sign "REGAL".
Section of exterior wall of wooden building, with weatherboards recently repainted except for a rectangle painted with faded advertising. Text: "DIXIE TAVERN - SANDWICHES & SEAFOOD". Below artwork depicting a glass of beer. TEXT: "REGAL keg BEER - With FROZEN GLASSES".
Illuminated analog clock on wall. In center is artwork of the face and hand of a man holding a glass of beer. The man has long black hair and a pencil moustache, and is smiling with enthusiasm. He wears a 17th century style soft broad-brimmed hat with a large plume, like a Musketeer. Text below: "REGAL BEER".

Infrogmation, 1 month ago

Old New Orleans Signs: "Give Me Your Telephone Number" edition

1)Lower Garden District. FAX number too.
2)Mid-City. Dance Hall.
3)Algiers. Call Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph before you dig!
4)Uptown. TWinbrook exchange number. (New Orleans switched to numbers in the 1960s but the sign lasted into the 2010s.)

Photographs by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #TelephoneNumber

Outdoor scene, chain link fence partly overgrown with weeds. A faded wooden sign with red letters on white background is attached to the fence. It has an arrow pointing right. Text: "DANCE HALL 412" and a 7 digit telephone number.
Wooden utility pole with a faded metal sign attached, black letters on a yellow background. At right is artwork depicting a stylized bell, labeled "BELL SYSTEM". Text: "WARNING - BURIED CABLE - BEFORE DIGGING IN THIS VICINITY PLEASE CALL (COLLECT) OR NOTIFY - SOUTHERN BELL TEL & TEL CO., GRETNA - TEL. NO." (7 digit telephone number)
Row of three 19th century wooden "shotgun" style houses (narrow street fronts with long interiors). The closest one has a sign hanging from a metal frame out front, blue text on white glass. At center is a silhouette of a head in profile. The text alternates between cursive and block letters. Top text: "Cameo BEAUTY SALON". Text at lower left: "Stylist JACOB KERTH". Text at lower right: "Call TW - " (5 digit telephone number).

Infrogmation, 1 month ago

Sign of the Crawfish, New Orleans.

1. Tulane U campus - aw that's no fun...
2. Cafe Luna, Uptown, early reopener after the Federal Flood
   3)St Roch Tavern, St Roch
   4)Hutchinson Memorial bldg, CBD

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #Crawfish #Crayfish #Crawdads

Text: "NEW ORLEANS - WELCOME HOME". Cartoon of anthropomorphized crwafish having a New Orleans parade. They wear shoes, vests or shirts, and New Orleans brass band musician caps. The first crawfish holds an umbrella and a covered steaming plate of food. The second plays trumpet, the third trombone, the fourth trombone, the fifth Sousaphone, the last a bass drum.
c. mid-20th century wooden sign with paint. Top text: "STOP! - CRAWFISH CONTEST - TO-NITE". Below, logo for long-defunct local "Regal Beer", a man holding a beer bottle. Text: "REGAL - Genuine Lager BEER".
Art deco style architectural building detail depicting a crawfish

wdlindsy, 1 month ago

"The criminal investigation into child sexual abuse in New Orleans’ Roman Catholic archdiocese has entered a major new phase, after a judge ordered the church to turn over records to Louisiana state police showing how it responded to abuse allegations over the last several decades."

~ Ramon Antonio Vargas and David Hammer

#NewOrleans #Catholic #Vatican #SexualAbuse #crime
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/new-orleans-archdiocese-child-sexual-abuse

Infrogmation, 1 month ago

New Orleans signs: Gators edition (volume II).

1. Carrollton
2. Central Business District
3. Bayou St. John
4. Lakeview

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #Gators #Alligators

Interior of a supermarket. Shelf with local spices and cooking supplies has large chalkboard sign. Text: "Shop ROUSES For Your CAJUN Cooking Needs". Multicolor chalk cartoon of an alligator stirring a large cooking pot. A colorful parasol is above the gator's head; the gator smiles broadly with rows of sharp teeth. Text on the cooking pot: "Laissez les Bon Temps Roulez!" (Louisiana French for "Let the Good Times Roll".)
Bayou body of water with grassy banks, houses seen in background on far shore. In center is a square metal sign, black text and artwork on bright yellow. Text: "ALLIGATORS IN THE XIUHMOPOILLI". The text surrounds round artwork, copied from the center of the famous Aztec Sun Stone, depicting a stylized human face with tongue sticking out surrounded with Aztec glyphs in the form of reptile heads and an outer circle with points sticking out, a mythological depiction of the Sun. The pole holding up the sign has been decorated with ceramic artwork, at top and bottom of pole simple round discs, between them a ceramic depiction of a small alligator.
Display in small garden space, wooden fence in background, green shrubs in soil bed. Halloween plastic skeletons lie at left, one human form the other alligator. Sign in form of fake tombstone drawings of a pair of alligators at top with a fleur-de-lis in the center. Below is text: "RIP DUMPSTER GATOR 2021". At bottom is artwork depicting the tip of the tail of an alligator sticking up from the ground. Note: Reference is to a large dead alligator seen sticking out of a dumpster in an urban section of New Orleans after Hurricane Ida in 2021, with no one seeming to know how it got there.

Infrogmation, 1 month ago

New Orleans signs: Birds edition

1. Bayou St. John
2. City Park
3. Uptown 13th Ward
4. Faubourg Maringy

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #birds

Large pond in park. Museum building on far shore. On near shore is a sign reading "PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE DUCKS ON DIRT BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM SICK. - PLEASE FEED THEM IN THE WATER OR ON THE GRASS." Silhouette artwork of 3 ducks at lower right of sign.
Interior of small restaurant. Large sign on wall reading: "GOOD BIRD". A smaller sign at top reads: "Our CHICKEN is Free Range - Hormone-Free Antibiotic-Free - and our Bread is Organic Locally Sourced Wild Flour Bread". At bottom of photo is a restaurant counter with containers holding paper napkins, straws, salt and pepper shakers.
Sign, red lettering on white. At top "Loretta's New Orleans Authentic Pralines" with logo depicting 3 pecan nuts and a leaf. Larger text below: "NO Alcohol - NO Profanity - NO Smoking - NO Nudity - NO Penguins".

Infrogmation, 1 month ago

New Orleans signs: Cats edition

1)St. Claude Avenue, Bywater (iconic!)
2)Faubourg Marigny
3)Mid-City
4)Carrollton Riverbend

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NewOrleans #NOLA #signs #cats

Fence gate with wooden sign, hand painted red, yellow and green letters on light blue background. Text: "NO PARKIN' - NO PEEIN' - NO HATIN' - NO CAT SELLIN'"
Colorful sign hand lettered with inconsistent use of capital and small letters, with cartoon drawings of two cats in fighting pose. Text: "NO FiGhting in Here! - NO bad AttituDE DUDEs! & Dudettes! - NO DRUGS - NO HUMBUGS - AbsolutelEy No DiscrimiNATEion ALLOWED! - NO WEAPONS - BE NICE OR LEAVE!"
Hand lettered wood sign, red letters on white white background, with 4 small cartoons of cats in corners. Text: "I DON'T HAVE DUCKS IN A ROW. I HAVE CATS AT A RAVE"

editor, 1 month ago

Good morning, #NewOrleans! I love the smell of the city at this time of year @noladon

I think that's honeysuckle in the foreground

spotlightonpod, 1 month ago

"A local hero in his hometown, he was best known for his hit 'Ain’t Got No Home,' which showcased the vocal versatility that earned him his nickname."

Clarence Henry, New Orleans R&B Star Known as the Frogman, Dies at 87: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/arts/music/clarence-henry-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE0.mluV.b7VWiJAa4nT1&smid=tw-share (gift link)

#NewOrleansMusic #Frogman #MusicHistory #NewOrleans #GiftLink #GiftArticle

jasonisaacdrums, 1 month ago

Offbeat Magazine published a wonderful obituary of John Sinclair with an emphasis on his New Orleans years.

https://www.offbeat.com/news/john-sinclair-1941-2024/

I will be presenting an hour-long tribute to John on my Crescent City Connection show this weekend, focusing on his jazz and blues inspired spoken word performances with his band the Blues Scholars. Catch it live on Saturday, 10am eastern on @WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Radio stream.

#JohnSinclair #WFMU #NewOrleans

Norobiik, 1 month ago

It's a little-known part of #NewOrleans' musical history. Before #jazz came to dominate the landscape, it was known as a city of #opera. Now, a project called #OperaCreole is working to restore the city's #ClassicalMpusic heritage and give the long lost works of composers of color their American debuts.

Rediscovering New Orleans' rich musical history before jazz
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/rediscovering-new-orleans-rich-musical-history-before-jazz/vi-BB1hPmUL?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds

nbrandsberg, 2 months ago

New Orleans Crescent City Bridge over the Mississippi River, with New Orleans being framed by the bridge at night.

https://www.pictorem.com/1931227/New%20Orleans%20Crescent%20City%20Connection%20Bridges%20Aerial%20Skyline.html

#neworleans #cityscape #mississippiriver #bridge #louisiana #architecture #nightphotography #art #fineart #sunset #landscapephotography #photography #landscapes #landscape #travel #travelphotography #buyintoart #ayearforart #nature #MastoArt #elegantfinephotography #normabrandsberg