I love finding out fun little fact about the city and the history...I always find it, tell Sarah what I found and move on....Well today Sarah told me to start blogging them so I would not forget and everyone else could know too....
- Today I found out that World Cotton Centennial 1884 World's Fair is now Audubon Zoo and Audubon Park...which is the park next to our house.
- Sarah and I live in the 14th ward...this is funny because one of our girls used to always say we lived in the 13th ward and call it out like she was in the 13th ward gang...Our girls were funny cuz they thought they were so "street" when they were just little girls who didn't really know much about life except what their just as uneducated on life friends told them (one girl said tide was a crappy brand and gain was the best...same girl said the "nice" jean were at k-mart and not wal-mart, target or the mall).
- The store below our apartment used to be Herwig's Bicycles. We knew it had a nice sign out front but we never knew how import a landmark this was for the city until we started giving directions to our apartment and everyone said "is that above Herwigs?"...So i googled it and didn't find to much information but we did find out the business started in 1934, and closed somewhere between 2003-2007. I'm on the case of this one...I'll get my historic architect buddies to help me when I get to work Monday.
- Some famous fellow uptowners are Louis Armstrong, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Drew Brees, and author Anne Rice.
- New Orleans 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest bridge over water in the United States.
- The total miles of canals (above and below ground) in New Orleans exceed that of Venice in Italy.
More to come!!!!
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