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51. Friends of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church to Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes, May 30, 2007. Our letter was copied to nearly three dozen individuals and organizations internationally, including the national office of the American Institute of Architects, the Voice of the Faithful, DOCOMOMO, Mario Botta, Michel Ragon, Richard Longstreth, Barry Bergdoll, Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco, FEMA, Architectural Record, the Associated Press, 60 Minutes (CBS), and CNN.
52. Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes to David Villarrubia, June 28, 2007.
53. Bevan, Destruction of Memory, 57–59.
54. Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth, Divided Cities (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2006).
55. Esther Charlesworth, Architects without Frontiers: War, Reconstruction, and Design Responsibility (Oxford: Architectural Press / Elsevier, 2006). Also see Keith Mallory, The Architecture of War (New York: Pantheon, 1973).
56. Jaime Guillet, “Stafford Act behind Slow Moving Recovery Funds,” New Orleans CityBusiness, April 1, 2007, http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/uptotheminute.cfm?recid=9731&userID=0&referer=dailyUpdate (accessed January 17, 2008). Cary Grant, New Orleans’s assistant chief administrative officer, was quoted as saying, “This is at least my seventh or eighth major (disaster) event and this is the first one that has had more bureaucratic nightmares than any (other disasters) have had. I know everybody’s got their stake in this … But it’s almost to the level it grinds to a halt because you have to elaborate on everything over and over. It bogs everything down.”
57. Mat Schwarzman, “New Orleans, as It Is,” Community Arts Network Reading Room, http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/04/new_orleans_as.php (accessed January 17, 2008).
58. Mac Margolis, “Travel: The World’s Most Endangered Destinations,” Newsweek International, April 10, 2006, available at http://www.globalheritagefund.org/news/conservation_news/newsweek_vanishing_acts_7_endangered_wonders.asp (accessed January 17, 2008).
59. Associated Press, “Under Fire, Google Goes Back to Maps Showing Katrina Damage,” New Orleans CityBusiness, April 2, 2007, http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/UpToTheMinute.cfm?recID=9739 (accessed January 17, 2008). The subcommittee’s chairman, Representative Brad Miller, asked Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, to explain what happened and to disclose whether federal or local officials asked the company to use the old imagery, perhaps in an effort to portray the stalled recovery more favorably. Miller wrote to Schmidt in a letter, “Google’s use of old imagery appears to be doing the victims of Hurricane Katrina a great injustice by airbrushing history.”
60. Peter Whoriskey, “Gulf Coast’s Post-Katrina Rebuilding Efforts Stall; Many Who Fled Storm Wary of Coming Back,” Washington Post News Service, August 28, 2006, http://www.neorunner.com/archive/2006/08/28/62_2104196.php (accessed January 17, 2008).
61. Deon Roberts, “Mixed Messages: Ambassadors Launch Campaign to Put Positive Spin on New Orleans’ Recovery,” New Orleans CityBusiness, April 2, 2007, http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=18653 (accessed January 17, 2008). The Fleur-de-lis Ambassadors Program was launched in March 2007 to help counter the barrage of negative national media coverage of post-Katrina New Orleans. Ironically, at least three of the group’s twenty members were against saving Cabrini Church. In 2006 around 3.7 million visitors spent $2.9 billion in New Orleans, down from 2004, when over 10 million visitors came to the city and spent $4.9 billion. The city was even poised to spend $100,000 to have a public relations firm attempt to rebuild the city’s gravely shattered image (Frank Donze, “N.O. Plans to Hire PR Firm,” Times-Picayune, May 29, 2007).
62. Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan, War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999).
Index
Page numbers in italics refer to photographs and illustrations.
A1 Appliance Store, 88
Abita Springs, 103, 106, 196
Academy of Music (New Orleans), 156
Aeren Supermarket, 46–47, 47
AFC Enterprises, 88
Afghanistan, 218
African American: culture, 149
folk arts and crafts, 102
gens de couleur libres (free people of color), 146
musicians, 125–129. See also black
Airline Drive. See Airline Highway
Airline Drive-in Theater, 160
Airline Highway, 23, 41, 55, 81, 88, 164-165, 182, 200–201
Airsteam trailer, 103–104, 201
the Alamo, 93, 160
Alexander, Avery, 122
Algiers, 69, 172, 173
Alvar Street, 93
Americana, 23, 103
American Bank Building, 206, 232
American Institute of Architects (AIA), 214
Amoss, Jim, 225
Amsterdam on the Bayou, 51
Angela 250 Draw, 16
Anglo-European settlers, 141–142
French, 139
German, 151
Irish, 151, 152
Antoine’s, 103
Apostolic Signatura, 229
Archdiocese of New Orleans, 207, 218, 219, 223–228
Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), 205
architecture, 150
insider architecture, 135
landmarks, 229
other-directed architecture, 200
roots architecture, 136
significance of, 219. See also folk architecture; vernacular architecture
Armstrong, Louis, 26, 146, 150
Army Corps of Engineers, U.S., 140
art deco, 4, 93, 182
Arts and Franklin Streets, 114
Arts Street Sno-balls, 115
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), 204
Atlanta, Georgia, 88
Audubon Institute, 194
Austin, TX, 210
authenticity, 190, 202
Autocrat Club, 12
automobiles, in society, 73, 76
autonomy, 180
axonometric drawings, 92, 94, 96, 97, 98, 175, 177, 179, 183, 187
Baker, LA, 170
Bastrop, LA, 190, 199
Baton Rouge, 170, 182, 221
Baumer Foods, 2, 2–3, 206
Bayou Plaza, 149
Bayou Specialties, 38, 38–39
Bayou St. John, 141
Belknap Fountain, 152, 152
Benson, Tom, 164
Bergdoli, Barry, 226
Bevan, Robert, 218
Big Cat Ernie Ladd’s Throw-Down BBQ, 111
Big Daddy’s Bottomless Topless Club, 51
black, 152, 161. See also African American
Blakely, Ed, 224, 232
Blake Pontchartrain, 157
Blitch/Knevel Architects, 217, 219
Bluebird Café, 93, 132–133, 133
Blue Plate Foods, 206
Bosnian Muslims, 218
Boston Club, 151
Bourbon Street, 50, 145
Bourre’s Bungalow. See the Bungalow
Brimmer, Charles, 130
Bring New Orleans Back Commission, 165, 168, 204
Broadmoor, 69, 182
Broadmoor Civic Improvement Association, 204
Broadmoor Construction Company, 218
Broad Street and Overpass, 42, 80, 100, 110, 116
Brochstein, Georgi Anne, 226, 228
BrouHatheway, Robin, 223
Brown, Denise Scott, 189
Brown’s Dairy Cows, 84, 133
Budda Belly Lounge, 132, 133
Buddhist monasteries, 218
Budweiser sign, 42, 42–43
the Bungalow (also Bourre’s Bungalow), 73, 73
Burger King, 88
Burger Orleans, 16, 16–17, 195
Burgundy Street, 125
Burke, Major E.A., 143
Bush, President George W., 164–165
Bywater neighborhood, 68, 103, 105, 138, 159
Cabrini Church. See St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Church
Café Dumond, 75
Caffin Avenue, 129
Cajun Cabin, 75, 75, 83
Cajun Swamp Tours, 85, 85
Calliope housing project, 117, 206
Camel Cigarettes, 71, 71
Campo Santo dei Tedeschi, 157
Camp Street, 4, 48, 180
Canal Street (and Boulevard), 10, 57, 70, 70, 71, 76, 78, 100, 112, 123, 151-152, 153, 159–160, 184, 206
Canon Law, Roman Catholic, 228
Capri Motel, 164, 166, 166, 206
Caribbean, 102–103
Carnival, 82, 91, 120, 125, 134, 138, 144–150, 160, 165
ball, 91
carnem levare, 148
“great Congo-dance,” 125
royalty, 146
season, 120
Carondelet Street, 70, 70
Carrollton Avenue, 157
Carrollton neighborhood, 12, 138
Carrollton Rexall, 100
Carter, James, 220
Carver Playground, 174
Carver Theater, 206
Cary’s Furniture and Appliances, 176
Cash Money Records, 117
Catholic, 146, 197, 216
political machine, 224, 227
Causeway Boulevard, 36, 90
Causeway Bridge, 138
Causey’s Country Kitchen, 28, 28–29
Center Georges Pompidou, 225, 226
Central America, 102
Central City, 61, 83, 113, 115, 138
Century of Progress Exposition (1933), 148
Chalmette, 88, 141–142, 172, 176, 186, 189, 190–191, 193–199
Chapel of St. Roch, 157, 159
cemetery, 158
Charity Hospital, 125, 206
Charleston, SC, 228
Charlesworth, Esther, 231
Charley’s Sweet Shop, 182, 184
Chartes Cathedral, 209
Chartes Street, 103
Chase, Dooky, 149
Chase, Edgar III, 149
Chase, Leah, 123
Chauvin, Bill, 217, 223, 224
Checker’s Drive-in Restaurant, 88
Chef Menteur Highway, 25, 28, 200
Chez Helene Restaurant, 108
Chicago, IL, 207
Chicken on the Run, 88
“Chief” Al Morris, 129
China, 218, 231
Chinese government control, 218
Chopper City in the Ghetto, 117
Church’s Chicken, 88, 180, 180
Cincinnati, OH, 156
City Hall Council Chambers (New Orleans), 214
City of New Orleans, 227
City Park, 69, 79, 174, 176
Civil War, 122, 143, 150
C.J. Peete/Magnolia housing project, 117, 120–121
Claiborne, Governor William C.C., 144
Claiborne Avenue, 150, 200
Claiborne Avenue Overpass, 121, 129–130
Claiborne mural project, 123–129, 124, 130
Clara Street, 110
Clarion Herald, 217, 219, 221
Cleary Avenue, 32
Club Indasia 3-D, 18–19, 19
CNN, 129, 204, 210
Coca-Cola bottling plant, 176
Cody, Archbishop John P., 209
Coin Laundry, 92, 93
Coliseum Theatre, 4, 4–5
Colorado, 190
Commander’s Palace, 103
Common Ground collective, 108–110
base camp, 194
mural, 109
Compagno’s (also Vincent’s Italian Restaurant), 73, 73
Comus. See Mystic Krewe of Comus
Confederacy, 143, 146, 156
A Confederacy of Dunces(Toole), 85
Congo Square, 142
Congress, U.S., 214
Conrad, Dwane, 125
Convention Center Boulevard, 103, 108
Cooper, Anderson, 204
Copeland, Al, 88
Cotton Club, 10
Council On the Protection of Parishes (COPP), 231
Crescent City Automotive Inc., 83
Crescent Schools, 56–57, 57
Crystal Preserves (sign), 2–3, 201
cultural cleansing, acts and policies of, 218, 229, 232
Curtis, Frances, 214, 224
Curtis, Nathaniel (Buster), 207, 214, 224
Curtis & Davis, 161, 207–209, 214, 217, 221, 222, 224, 226
David Crockett Fire Station, 62, 62–63
Davis, Arthur Q., 214, 224
DeBerry, Jarvis, 173, 227
“decorated shed,” 20, 80, 99, 189
Deep South Motel, 201
DeForest, Ronda, 190
Department of Homeland Security, 168
DePass, M. B., 159
Depression, Great, 156
de Thulstrup, T., 143
Dewberry and Davis, 221
Dimitri, 108
Dixie Health Foods, 90
Doerr Furniture Co., 44–45, 45
Domino, Antoine Dominique “Fats”, 88, 123, 129, 133
mural depicting, 130
residence, 131
Domino, Atlantis, 123, 130
Domino, Fats. See Antoine Dominique Domino
Dorgenois Street, 19, 47
Dot’s Diner, 88
Doullot Houses, 159, 160
Doullot, M. Paul, 159
Downtown Holiday Inn, 80, 80
Doyle, Popeye, 88
DPZ and Associates, 168
Dr. Bob, 103
airstream trailer, 104
surfboard gate, 105
Drexler, Arthur, 200
Drum Buddy, 125
Duany, Andres, 168, 194
Duke, David, 147
Dumaine Street, 123
Dunbar’s Soul Food restaurant, 108
Duncan Plaza, 80, 161
Earhart Boulevard, 90, 109
Earhart Expressway, 110
Ebel, Joy, 123
Economical Supermarket, 205, 206
Ecumenical Council, 210
Edwards, Edwin, 147
Elysian Fields Avenue, 45, 100, 110, 116, 156, 182, 186, 188, 205
Entergy, 172, 190
Ernie K-Doe, 122, 125, 127, 129, 132–135
Esplanade Avenue, 20, 122, 221
Europe, 88, 114
Exxon refinery, 176
Falstaff brewery, 42
Family Dollar, 196
Fats Domino Publishing Co., 129
Fat Tuesday, 120, 144. See also Mardi Gras
Faubourg Marigny, 45, 68, 103, 159
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 164, 165, 166–168, 170, 180, 189, 193, 195, 196, 197, 199–201, 205, 220, 224–225, 229, 232
disaster mitigation funds, 219
fifty-one percent rule, 219
officials, 171
Renaissance Village, 170
Section 106
Review, 220–227
“trailerization” of New Orleans, 168–189
trailers, description of, 168, 170. See also trailer installations
Federal Protective Service, 173
Felicity Street, 176
Fielkow, Arnie, 220
Finney, Peter Jr., 217
Flake, Carol, 146
Floating Palace, 152, 156, 156
Flour Power, 190–200, 191, 193
folk architecture, 102, 132–134
Carribean, 110
shrines, 125–130
urban, 102, 112, 125, 133–134
Fontainebleau Motor Hotel, 156
Forbriger, A., 156
Formosan termites, 144 40
Arpent Canal Levee (the), 196
Fountain, Pete, 80 4
Kings Entertainment, 8, 8–9, 117, 131
Fourth Street, 19, 61
France, 159, 209, 226
Frances Amis Hall, 122
Frankie and Johnnie’s Restaurant, 112
Frederick, Hamilton, 226
Freedom (mural), 125
Freedom Riders, 123
French Connection, 88
&n
bsp; French Market, 87
French Ministry of Culture, 226
French Opera House, 150
French Quarter, 69, 165, 199, 204
Freret Street, 116
Friends of New Orleans, 130
Friends of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church. See St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church
Front Porch Gossips(mural), 124, 125
Frostop Drive-in, 28, 30, 30–31, 32, 32–33, 88, 201
Frozen Pops Snowballs, 60–61, 61
Frye, Father, 207, 209
Gadbois, Karen, 205
Gaithersburg, Maryland, 221
Gallas, Walter, 221, 228
Gallier, James, 150
Gambino’s Bakery, 75, 76, 76, 100
Gambit Weekly, 122, 157
Garden District, 83, 133, 138, 141, 148
Gatier, M. Pierre Antoine, 226
Gaubert, Reggie, 170
Geneva Conventions, 218
Gentilly (New Gentilly), 35, 117, 141–142, 186, 204–207, 216–217, 219–220, 223, 224, 228
Gentilly Civic Improvement Association (GCIA), 205, 219–220
Gentilly Woods, 83
George Washington University, 221
Georgia, Republic of, 231
Germany, 88
Gert Town neighborhood, 138
Gill, James, 227
Glassie, Henry, 102, 108
Goldstein, Moshe, 206
Google, 232
Graceland, 129
Graham, Charles, 143
Greater New Orleans Bridge (Crescent City Connection), 79, 80
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, 122
Greater New Orleans Foundation (GNOF), 205
Gretna, 62, 69, 81, 93
Gretna Gun Works, Inc., 64–65, 65. See also Jolie’s/Gretna Gun Shop
Gretna Lanes, 87
Gropius, Walter, 200
Ground Patí, 90
Gulf Coast, 25
Gulf Coast Opportunity Zone (Go-Zone), 204
Gulf Coast Region, 164
Gulf of Mexico, 129, 139
Guste (HUD-HANO housing project), 161
Haas, Richard, 80
Hahnville, LA, 170
Half Moon Bar and Restaurant, 74, 75
Halloween, 199
Hammond, LA, 190, 194
H&P Bar B.Q. Masters, 110, 110