New Orleans, November 2009
This photo was in the National World War II museum: it shows sailors at Mass on board the USS Nevada on 2nd June 1944, the night before the D-Day liberation of France.
A good old-fashioned business (Ed Smith’s Stencil Works), with a good old-fashioned hand-painted sign whose landlord is selling the building—perhaps as a result of the recession which was particularly affecting the southern states when I visited them. The business itself seems still to be operating, as its website attests.
People outside the Palace Café in New Orleans.
Cars and buildings in Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
An apartment building in the French Quarter in New Orleans.
An umbrella on a rooftop bar.
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A family in the park opposite St Louis’ cathedral in New Orleans.
This statue of Andrew Jackson is prominent opposite St Louis’ Cathedral in New Orleans. Before becoming president of the United States, Jackson had led the Unionists in New Orleans in the American Civil War.
An early Christmas decoration in the French Quarter in New Orleans in November 2009.
Beignets and café au lait at the Café du Monde, for which the New Orleans café is especially famous (indeed, it serves little else).
A man selling hot-dogs from a cart in Jackson Square in New Orleans. He gives no impression of otherwise being like the character Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces.
