Main Street Looking South
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This photo shows the Streetcar traveling down a busy dirt Main Street. Note the well-dressed people. Many of the buildings in this photo are still standing today.
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Gimbel Corner
You are now standing on the corner where one of the world’s largest department store empires began. Adam Gimbel was a Jewish man who came to the US from Bavaria (in what is now Germany) and arrived in New Orleans around 1830. At the age of…