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Derby Gisclair

@derbygisclair.bsky.social

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New Orleans based published author, speaker, amateur photographer, and dilettante historian. #baseball #boxing #horseracing #steamboats #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history #quotes Sorry but no DMs, no crypto, no porn, no requests for money.

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Derby Gisclair @derbygisclair.bsky.social · 4m

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"A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify."
~ Robert Byrne

#quotes #billiards #pool

Derby Gisclair @derbygisclair.bsky.social · 1h

... the New Basin Canal from the rail station on the right out of the picture. From the archives of the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Photograph credited to J. Scordill.

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A postcard circa 1912 featuring the resort are of West End showing the amusement park, pavilions, restaurants, and theatre complex. The property was accessed by walking across the drawbridge over ... (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

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Gotta check the red field clock in the endzone

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Derby Gisclair @derbygisclair.bsky.social · 18h

But it was the 1984 World's Fair that pushed their efforts front and center. The building shown in this photograph has been incorporated into the rear portion of Mulate's Restaurant. (Photograph: Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane University)

Derby Gisclair @derbygisclair.bsky.social · 18h

... been demolished. The intervention of preservationists led to the creation of the Warehouse District Historic District in March 1978 and through the efforts of the Preservation Resource Center and the Historic New Orleans Collection the area was revitalized. (continued)

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Derby Gisclair @derbygisclair.bsky.social · 18h

... shows the corner of Fulton Street and Julia Street in front of the U.S. Bonded Warehouse No. 12. However, near the mid-point of the century, businesses moved to larger and more modern facilities outside of the city. By the 1960s many of the abandoned and neglected structures had ... (continued)

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Derby Gisclair @derbygisclair.bsky.social · 18h

At the turn of the 20th century, the Warehouse District of New Orleans was still a collection of brick warehouses, cotton and sugar presses, foundries, and manufacturing businesses. This scene, captured around 1900 by an unattributed photographer, ...(continued)

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