Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way

By Peggy Scott Laborde and John Magil

Stretching from the riverfront to the cemeteries, Canal Street has served as a place for meeting, shopping, protesting, and parading since its creation in 1807. From white-gloved shopping trips at D.H. Holmes to department store boycotts by the NAACP, from Mardi Gras parades to Christmas displays, steamships to streetcars, Canal Street has been a gathering place full of diverse sights and sounds for 200 years. Written by local historian and Historic New Orleans Collection curator John Magill and WYES-TV host Peggy Scott Laborde, Canal Street: New Orleans 1/2 Great Wide Way chronicles the evolution of this grand street and all its events, memories, failures, and successes.

• 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"