After the Flood When All the Colors Came Out


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April 22nd 2011
Published: January 31st 2012
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Today is my first day in New Orleans. Until 2005, the city was probably best known as a party town, a place where people drank in the streets and anything went. After Katrina, the city was probably known mostly as a flood zone. The reality is now somewhere in between. The oldest neighborhoods, the ones that tourists mostly stick to, were above sea level and have mostly recovered. The newer, a... Read Full Entry



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Garden District streetGarden District street
Garden District street

Any questions why its called the Garden District?
Cast ironCast iron
Cast iron

More glorious cast iron in the Garden District
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Garden District

One of the most picturesque parts of New Orleans
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Garden District

Glorious old houses in New Orelans
Garden DistrictGarden District
Garden District

Glorious old houses in New Orleans
Garden DistrictGarden District
Garden District

Glorious old houses in New Orleans
New Orleans water meter coverNew Orleans water meter cover
New Orleans water meter cover

The design is so famous that people routinely steal them!
French Quater cast ironFrench Quater cast iron
French Quater cast iron

Famous view of cast iron balconies in the French Quarter
French QuarterFrench Quarter
French Quarter

Although its called the 'French Quarter', this architecture is actually Spanish!
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One of the Pontalba Buildings

Historic apartment building owned by the City of New Orleans, and the most expensive public housing in the country!
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French building in New Orelans

One of the few buildings to survive the early French Quarter fires, making it one of the few built by the French.
Gumbo ShopGumbo Shop
Gumbo Shop

Courtyard dining at the old and authentic Gumbo Shop in the French Quarter



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