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What Louisiana
Huey P. Long is the river?s finest bridge, completed in 1935 at a cost of $13,000,000. This structure was built by the Louisiana Highway Commission and the Public Belt Railroad system, and is toll free for vehicles and pedestrians. The bridge with the approaches is 4.4 miles long, has a clearance of 135 feet above high water at the central piers, and the top of the structure is more than 400 feet above the bottom of the piers. It is also used by the Southern Railway company.
New Orleans
In New Orleans the tourist will see life as it was lived in the colorful days of two centuries ago; he will be in the atmosphere of old France and old Spain. However, the traveler will also find modern monuments to progress symbolical of the Greatest City South, and a city that is modern in every detail.
The Heart of old New Orleans is the Vieux Carre where will be found mingled beauty, history and romance. The narrow streets, buildings with their myriad shaped roofs and chimneys, iron trellised balconies, fan windows and conglomerate ?Creole? architecture with traces of French and Spanish influences make this section rich in appeal.
The Place d?Armes, now known as Jackson Square, was two centuries ago and is today the hub of the Vieux Carre. The old Spanish Cabildo, where the transfer of Louisiana from Spain to France to the United States took place, is now a museum. The same old St. Louis Cathedral of 1794 is still in use. America?s first apartments, built by the Baroness Pontalba have been preserved. Scores of other historic treasures remain, such as Madame John?s Legacy, built about 1727, the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley; the old Ursuline Convent, a memento of 1734; Pirate?s Alley; the Napoleon House; the recently renovated and modernized French Market, originally built in 1784; and many others.
In uptown New Orleans is the Garden District with its beautiful ante-bellum homes, and modern New Orleans is equally fascinating with 171-foot wide Canal
Offers the Tourist
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The Place d?Armes in New Orleans, Where the Mississippi Valley Development Had Its Beginning in 1718, in the Heart of Vieux Carre. Buildings from Left to Right: Cabildo, erected in 1795; St. Louis Cathedral, built in 1794; Presbytery, used Originally by the Cathedral Priests; and Pontalba Apartment, Oldest In This Country, Erected by the Baroness Pontalba. In the Foreground is Jackson Square.
street as the dividing line. This street, one of the most renowned thoroughfares in the world, is over five miles in length.
New Orleans boasts the finest airport in the United States, the Shushan Airport, located on man-made land on the shore of beautiful Lake Pontchartrain; the municipal auditorium in New Orleans is the largest in the South; the port and harbor improvements in New Orleans are valued today at over $200,000,000; the new $12,500,000 Charity hospital, now under construction, will be surpassed by none in the nation.
Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), New Orleans annual frolic of fun, has international fame. The Carnival of Sports, featured by the Sugar Bowl Football Classic on New Year?s Day, is now a Southern institution. The Spring Fiesta is another outstanding tourist attraction. Flowers, trees and shrubs, found only in temperate climates, grow in profusion in this garden spot of the South.