NEW ORLEANS From Bienville to Bourbon Street to bounce. 300 moments that make New Orleans unique.

WHAT HAPPENED Storyville 1718 ~ 2018 vices like jazz music migrated to Bourbon Street after the 300 district was TRICENTENNIAL closed in 1917.

A sailor in COLLECTION ORLEANS NEW HISTORIC THE ADVOCATE ORLEANS NEW THE The Desire bus 1962 checks on Bourbon out the enter- Street in 1948. tainment at The buses Club Pigalle at replaced the 232 Bourbon Desire streetcar St., owned line on May 30 by Gaspar of that year be- Gulotta, ‘The cause residents Little Mayor and shop owners of Bourbon said the street- Street.’ The car was causing club was damage to their named after businesses and the Moulin was making too Rouge district much noise. of Paris.

Crowds on Bourbon Street for Mardi Gras. THE HISTORIC NEWORLEANS COLLECTION Love it or hate it, Bourbon Street is the center of New Orleans for many who visit here. The street wasn’t always a strip of cheap at clubs like “Hotsy Totsy,” and “Gunga Den.” beer, peep shows and T-shirt shops. It was Jazz greats Pete Fountain and Al Hirt opened once an upscale residential street in the mid- competing jazz clubs on the street. dle of the French Quarter. The French Opera In an effort to clean up Bourbon Street in House at Bourbon and Toulouse was the cen- the 1960s, District Attorney Jim Garrison be- ter of Creole society for decades until it gan raiding clubs known for illegal prosti- burned down in 1919. tution. Mayor Moon Landrieu followed About the same time, the Sto- on that effort by making the street ryville district was closed, and a pedestrian mall and repaving the businesses migrated to Bourbon. sidewalks. Critics said future efforts to Jazz musicians, prostitutes and li- clean up the street led to more souvenir quor during Prohibition, could be found along shops than clubs and that the street had lost Bourbon Street. The street also attracted res- its “authenticity.” taurateurs — Jean Galatoire opened Galatoire’s Though Big Daddy’s swinging mannequin in 1905 and later, Owen Brennan opened Bren- legs are long gone, and the old-time burlesque nan’s Vieux Carré Restaurant, on the street. shows have been replaced by newer joints, The street was at its peak in the 1950s and Bourbon Street — buoyed by 24 hour bars and 1960s with burlesque performers including Pearl open-container laws — shows no signs of slow- of the Orient, Champagne Girl and Wild Cherry, ing down.