NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Canal Street, New Orleans

Canal Street is a major thoroughfare in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Nickname: Location in the State of Louisiana and the United States Coordinates: , Country United States State Louisiana Parish Orleans Founded 1718 Government - Mayor Ray Nagin (D) Area - City 350. ...

Canal Street, looking away from the river, 1920s

Forming the up-river boundary of the city's oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter (Vieux Carre), it formed the dividing line between the older French/Spanish Colonial era city and the newer American sector, the Central Business District. Canal Street, New Orleans, 1920s, from period postcard, no copyright note. ... Canal Street, New Orleans, 1920s, from period postcard, no copyright note. ... French Quarter: upper Chartres street looking down towards Jackson Square and the spires of St. ... The Central Business District is an area of New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

The name of the avenue comes from a planned canal which was to connect the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, but it was never constructed. The wide median which was to contain the canal was referred to by early inhabitants as the "neutral ground," due to the animosities amongst culturally distant residents on separate sides of the avenue. The term is still used by New Orleanians to refer to all street medians. The Canal du Midi, Toulouse, France Canals are man-made channels for water. ... For the river in Canada, see Mississippi River (Ontario). ... Lake Pontchartrains north shore at Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville, Louisiana in 2004 Lake Pontchartrain (local English pronunciation ) (French: Lac Pontchartrain, pronounced ) is a brackish lake located in southeastern Louisiana. ... On divided roads, including expressways, motorways, or autobahns, the median (North American English) or central reservation (British English) is the area which separates opposing lanes of traffic. ... The second proper album of Beth Orton, Central Reservation helped Orton build on the success of her debut Trailer Park. ...

One end of Canal Street is at the Mississippi River. Often called "The foot of Canal Street," at the riverfront the Canal Street Ferry connects to the old urban suburb of Algiers, Louisiana across the river. The other end is in Mid City New Orleans at a collection of cemeteries. Ferryboat Thomas Jefferson approaches the Algiers side of the ferry route; Ferryboat Frank X. Arminger seen at dock at right foreground. ... Algiers is a community in Louisiana, part of the city of New Orleans. ... Castle Ashby Graveyard Northamptonshire A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. ...

The street has three lanes of traffic in both directions, with a pair of streetcar and bus lanes in the center. a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ...

Canal Street is often said to be the widest roadway in America to be given the term street instead of a more prominent title of avenue or boulevard. A city-centre street in Frankfurt, Germany A residential street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA A street is a public thoroughfare in the built environment. ... Avenue can mean any of the following: Most commonly, it refers to two parallel lines of trees specially planted as a landscape feature. ... The Champs Elysees in Paris, France. ...

Canal Street at night

For more than a century, Canal Street was the main shopping district of Greater New Orleans. It long was home to a number of local department stores; some, such as Maison Blanche, Krauss, and D. H. Holmes survived into the 1980s, long after the old style main-street department stores of most other major U.S. cities. Such chains as Woolworth's, McCrory's and Kress were also on the street. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 399 Ã— 599 pixelsFull resolution (533 Ã— 800 pixel, file size: 91 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 399 Ã— 599 pixelsFull resolution (533 Ã— 800 pixel, file size: 91 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The New Orleans Metropolitan Area, or Greater New Orleans, is the largest metropolitan area in Louisiana, centered around New Orleans. ... The interior of a typical Macys department store. ... Maison Blanche was a department store in New Orleans and later also a chain of department stores. ... Kraus (sometimes Krauss) is a fairly common last name. ... D. H. Holmes was a New Orleans department store and later a New Orleans based chain of department stores. ... Foot Locker Inc NYSE: FL (formerly Z) is a United States company specialising in athletic footwear and clothing. ... J.G. McCrorys or McCrory Stores is a defunct chain of five and dime stores in the United States based in York, Pennsylvania. ... S. H. Kress & Co. ...

The world's first movie theater (that is, the first business devoted specifically to showing films for profit) was "Vitascope Hall", established on Canal Street in 1896. The street hosted a number of theaters large and small through the 20th century. Two of the old movie palaces, the Saenger Theater and the State Palace Theater (formerly Lowe's State) survive, although now mostly as live performance venues. A typical multiplex (AMC Promenade 16 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, United States). ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...

For decades, the giant effigy of the character Mr. Bingle on the façade of the Maison Blanche building was a sign of the Christmas season. Mr. ... Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...

Canal Street remains the hub of the city's mass transit system.

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