New Orleans: Then and Now®
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (773 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 191090483X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorSharon Keating is a lawyer, a licensed tour guide for the City of New Orleans, and has volunteered for several tourist information organizations. Sharon is the author of New Orleans in Photographs and contributes to the website New Orleans for Visitors.
Then there is the madness of Mardi Gras and the lure of its international jazz festival that has helped give it the nicknames; “the City that Care Forgot” and “the Big Easy.” Before the rise of the railroads it was the most prosperous city in the South. Today, tourism is an important industry, and despite the inundation of floodwater from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, visitors have flocked back to the city. The city fell early in the Civil War, in 1862, but the dwindling importance of cotton and the Mississippi that led to the city’s real demise in the latter half of the 19th century. New Orleans has the French and Spanish to thank for creating a unique
Recommend for any tru NOLA lover DEBBIE WILSON Love this book. Pictures are amazing. First perusal was too much fun. Now I'm reading all the details. So much history. I like that Katrina pictures were somewhat added, but that's not why I like the book. True depiction of then and now. I've seen some of the then (a few years after the picture). Quit a trip down memory lane. Recommend for any true NOLA lover.. Wonderful Pictorial History book of New Orleans This is a Wonderful gift for anyone familiar with New Orleans or interested in its history versus today ! I gave this book to a close friend who was born in New Orleans and he told me how much he has enjoyed viewing and reading sections of it with both of his elderly parents who are fond of their early years spent in "The Big Easy.". Nicolette8"A Look Into The Past and Present" according to Nicolette82r. New Orleans Then and Now is a wonderful history in photographs for the Crescent City. I have visited New Orleans several times over the years and love the city more and more each time. This book offers a great insight to past places and their current look of today. Many show the changes of time while others remain the same as they were in the past, only more vivid and alive. There is also a few tribute pages to Hurricane Katrina and the damage that she caused with side by side photos of how these places w. r said A Look Into The Past and Present. New Orleans Then and Now is a wonderful history in photographs for the Crescent City. I have visited New Orleans several times over the years and love the city more and more each time. This book offers a great insight to past places and their current look of today. Many show the changes of time while others remain the same as they were in the past, only more vivid and alive. There is also a few tribute pages to Hurricane Katrina and the damage that she caused with side by side photos of how these places w
Sharon Keating is a lawyer, a licensed tour guide for the City of New Orleans, and has volunteered for several tourist information organizations. Sharon is the author of New Orleans in Photographs and contributes to the website New Orleans for Visitors.