Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way

by Peggy Scott Laborde and John Magil

Book Overview

Based upon a WYES-TV documentary, Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way tells the history and social life of New Orleans' main thoroughfare, from its inception in 1807 to its current revival and rebuilding post-Hurricane Katrina. This exhaustive urban history recalls, celebrates, and documents the contributions Canal Street made to New Orleans' cultural, artistic, commercial, religious, and political landscape. Canal Street was considered the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158980337X
• ISBN13: 9781589803374
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 11.1"