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The morning alibi
Philosophically, I think taking early-morning photos of a place that’s famous for what goes on at night is similar to my usual routine of going around back.
Anyway, how fortunate was this find – the sidewalk outside a place called The Alibi getting cleaned of…whatever happened the night before?
the French Quarter
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 1.8.2016
The Hurt
After Hurricane Katrina, a lot of money went to rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, but the paths weren’t always easy to travel. New Orleans has always been a city built upon strong neighborhoods, each one distinct in important ways from all the others. This helps to make a vibrant city, to be sure, but it also makes large-scale redevelopment more complicated
The decisions that led to the closing of Charity Hospital, and the construction of a huge new medical complex in the Mid-City neighborhood was hugely unpopular with the residents, most of whom had been displaced by the storm and would be once again displaced by the construction project. You can read more about it here, but the short version is the phrase “closed-door decision to bulldoze a 25 block residential and business neighborhood” for the new facilities. Construction was delayed while that was worked out, mostly (from what I saw) in favor of the new hospitals.
There are a few of the old places still standing, including this one. I guess when you’re about the last one left, you may as well paint a sign on your roof, right?
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 1.8.2016
Last flight
I like taking the last flight: the terminals are emptier. And that means better photos (since you know how I am about photos with people in them.)
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
Kenner, Louisiana
photographed 1.10.2016
The laundry still needs to be done
Remember the other day, when I said that the behind-the-scenes things fascinated me?
Bourbon Street, in New Orleans’s French Quarter, is known for many things – bars, strip clubs, Mardi Gras shenanigans, and so on. But there’s never been a mention of Bourbon Street laundromats, as far as I know.*
So you can just imagine how happy I was when I saw this place, right there on Bourbon Street.
corner of Bourbon Street and Dumaine Street
New Orleans, Lousiana
photographed 1.8.2016
* I went to grad school in New Orleans; my degree was in urban planning with a concentration in historic preservation planning.** We did a lot of projects in the Quarter. I’d led a pretty sheltered life until then…
** No, I really don’t use that degree. Ever. But thanks for asking.
Barriers and Beads
Things in New Orleans are often at cross-purposes. Like this foreboding razor wire atop a wall in the French Quarter, and the festive Mardi Gras beads that are caught in it.
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 1.8.2016
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