Boswell Sisters Centennial Celebration
New Orleans, 11/30-12/03/07
These first three pages are pics from Brother BeeBoz.
This first page is full of pics of the French Quarter architecture. The majority of these were taken Friday afternoon, while I was out and about, getting my bearings. I had just met Aubrey (Bibbity) while wandering around near the Jazz Park museum, and I snapped most of these as we strolled through the French Quarter for awhile:
Just one of many wonderfully appointed balconies:
All the three-story buildings blew my mind:
Another gorgeous balcony:
Here's the Cabildo from inside Jackson Square Park:
I think this was taken later on in the evening on Saturday, walking toward Headquarters and Snug Harbor:
Here's the courtyard of our hotel, The Provincial, a wonderful place to stay:
And here's The Provincial from across the street:
Another shot of the Hotel Provincial from Chartres Street:
This was taken from the river landing stairs...from here it really hits you that the Cabildo and its sister building on the other side of the Cathedral are really twins:
And this is what you see when you turn around in the same spot...Roll on, Mississippi, Roll on!
More wonderful balconies:
Love that wrought iron:
What can I say? I was smitten by the charm of the place:
This is one of my favorite shots...You get the sense of being underneath one balcony, and see the water pouring off the one across the street, and you can imagine it's a hundred years ago (except for the cars, of course!):
More fabulous balconies and plants:
Esplanade Street was really a cool spot...I could spend days photographing the houses and plants on that street:
And here's the obligatory Bourbon Street sign shot:
Can't remember quite *where* this was, but when Bibbity and I were out walking around past all these shops, I happened to glance down and see this. Pete Fountain was one of the great jazz clarinetists whose heyday was in the fifties and sixties, and this was evidently the site of his club. Have no idea what was in its place now (probably a t-shirt or trinket shop), but seeing this made me feel a bit sad that it wasn't STILL Pete's place. However, I was really glad to see that this momento of the past was still embedded in the sidewalk:
More street shots:
This was one of my favorite balconies...love that turquoise paint!
And we really enjoyed stumbling upon this building, with its ancient painted-on advertisement for "Uneeda Biscuit 5cents" still clinging to the side after all these years:
