. New Orleans, city of old romance and new oportunity. Southern railway system. ble-stoned alleyway— Would you like it? Yes—? Then come, and wander down through the old town, the Vieux Carre ofNew Orleans. They are all there, these details, with thousands of others thatconnect more than 200 years of history intimately with that of four great nations,and that make it a distinctive spot far different from all the stereotyped modelsof American cities of which it is a world apart. The Vieux Carre centers about the peaceful old St. Louis Cathedral onthe Place dArms, now Jackson Square, its tiny str
. New Orleans, city of old romance and new oportunity. Southern railway system. ble-stoned alleyway— Would you like it? Yes—? Then come, and wander down through the old town, the Vieux Carre ofNew Orleans. They are all there, these details, with thousands of others thatconnect more than 200 years of history intimately with that of four great nations,and that make it a distinctive spot far different from all the stereotyped modelsof American cities of which it is a world apart. The Vieux Carre centers about the peaceful old St. Louis Cathedral onthe Place dArms, now Jackson Square, its tiny streets seething with activityof truck market traffic, choked with carts and garlic-necklaced vegetable venders,its high balconies festive with colored washings and with laughing dark-eyedchildren. Now the sidewalks are thronged by aproned and foreign-tongued house-wives, going to the big French market that for over a century has served NewOrleans, returning with their laden baskets. JACKSON square; LEFT TO RIGHT, PONTALBA BUILDINGS, CABILDO, ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL, PRESBYTERS. -^ Tage 3neworleanscityof00sout
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