Magazine Street, Uptown New Orleans, 7/5/12
Uptown
These anonymous and poignant lyrics were left on the wall of a building off of Magazine Street in New Orleans.
These anonymous and poignant lyrics were left on the wall of a building off of Magazine Street in New Orleans.
These anonymous and poignant lyrics were left on the wall of a building off of Magazine Street in New Orleans.
These anonymous and poignant lyrics were left on the wall of a building off of Magazine Street in New Orleans.
Walking Uptown on Magazine Street in New Orleans
Magazine Street in Uptown New Orleans was not named for a publication of any kind, but rather for the magazins or warehouses that were used to store goods shipped down the Mississippi River in early New Orleans. Today the street is four miles of unique and trendy shops, restaurants, coffee bars and gelato stands. Different from the French Quarter yet unmistakably New Orleans, it is a shopper’s paradise not to be missed. 7/5/12
I had to be out of my hotel room at noon, but the Young Men Olympian second-line didn’t get underway until 1 PM, so I had some time to kill, and eating lunch wasn’t really an option since I had only finished breakfast an hour before. With nothing better to do, I headed down Magazine under the Crescent City Connector and into the Uptown section, which might be the only neighborhood in America to have streets named for all nine of the Muses of Greek mythology. There I stumbled onto a cute coffee bar called, appropriately enough, the Corner Muse, and I decided to stop in and enjoy a cappuccino. I walked a couple of blocks down Magazine, shooting photos, and then realized that I needed to head over to South Liberty and Josephine, where the Young Men Olympian hall was and where the parade would begin.
I had to be out of my hotel room at noon, but the Young Men Olympian second-line didn’t get underway until 1 PM, so I had some time to kill, and eating lunch wasn’t really an option since I had only finished breakfast an hour before. With nothing better to do, I headed down Magazine under the Crescent City Connector and into the Uptown section, which might be the only neighborhood in America to have streets named for all nine of the Muses of Greek mythology. There I stumbled onto a cute coffee bar called, appropriately enough, the Corner Muse, and I decided to stop in and enjoy a cappuccino. I walked a couple of blocks down Magazine, shooting photos, and then realized that I needed to head over to South Liberty and Josephine, where the Young Men Olympian hall was and where the parade would begin.
I had to be out of my hotel room at noon, but the Young Men Olympian second-line didn’t get underway until 1 PM, so I had some time to kill, and eating lunch wasn’t really an option since I had only finished breakfast an hour before. With nothing better to do, I headed down Magazine under the Crescent City Connector and into the Uptown section, which might be the only neighborhood in America to have streets named for all nine of the Muses of Greek mythology. There I stumbled onto a cute coffee bar called, appropriately enough, the Corner Muse, and I decided to stop in and enjoy a cappuccino. I walked a couple of blocks down Magazine, shooting photos, and then realized that I needed to head over to South Liberty and Josephine, where the Young Men Olympian hall was and where the parade would begin.
8/28/09: Heading Way Uptown
I decided to eat breakfast at a place called the Oak Street Cafe, which was in the far uptown neighborhood of Carrollton, so I walked …