Delirious New Orleans

by Stephen Verderber

  Parish Council, 219

  quonset hut chapel, 207, 209

  Section 106

  Review (FEMA), 220–227

  TRO (temporary restraining order), 228

  St. Louis Cathedral, 103

  St. Louis-Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1903–1904, 159

  Storyville District, 103

  St. Peter’s, 209

  St. Philip Street, 123

  Strahan, Jessica, 117

  St. Roch Dog Rescue, 159

  St. Tammany Parish, 195

  St. Thomas housing project, 206

  suburban sprawl, 69, 135

  Sugar Bowl Courts, 40–41, 41

  Sunset Boulevard, 69

  superhighway system, 76

  Talbot, Doug, 86

  Taliban, 218

  Tap, James. See Soulja Slim

  Taylor, Dorothy Mae, 146

  Taylor, Patrick, 206

  Tee-Eva’s Creole Soul Food, 95, 96, 112, 125

  Temple Sinai, 79

  Texaco Filling Station, Lee Circle, 79, 79

  Thalia Street, 4

  The Pearl Oyster Bar Restaurant, 75, 75

  Thevis, Father Peter L., 159

  Thibodaux, LA, 190, 195, 199

  Third Street, Gretna, 65, 99 32

  Inches Po-Boy, 58, 58–59

  Thomas, Oliver, 219

  Thomas, Richard, 122

  Times-Picayune, 79, 80, 215, 220, 225, 228

  Times Square, 165

  Tipitina’s Foundation, 130

  Tonight Show, 80

  Torroja, Eduardo, 222

  tourism, 148–149, 168

  Touro Infirmary, 93

  trailer installations: autonomous installations, 180, 182, 182, 184, 183–185

  commercial enclaves, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181

  corporate villages, 174, 176

  residential villages, 174, 174–177, 192

  untethered nomads, 184, 186, 186, 187, 188, 189, 198. See also Federal Emergency Management Agency

  trailers (FEMA), 168, 170; responses to, 172–173. See also Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); trailer installations

  Tremé neighborhood, 121–122, 124, 141, 150

  Trianon, 160

  Tulane Avenue and Overpass, 2, 42, 100, 157, 164, 166, 200, 206

  Tulane University, 30, 210

  School of Architecture, 221

  Tullis Drive, 173

  Turner’s Tire Repair, 176

  Twelfth Night Festival, 82

  UCM Museum, 103, 121–123

  Filling Station, 106

  House of Shards and Bottle House, 103, 107

  jazz funeral diorama, 123

  Wreck of the UFO, 103

  Ukrainian, 218

  Unified New Orleans Plan (Unified Recovery Plan), 205

  Union Club, 151

  Unisexxx Club, 50–51

  Unité dé Habitation, 161

  United House of Prayer for All People, 130–132, 132

  United Nations (U.N.), 173

  United States, 100, 139, 143, 156, 165, 221-222, 231

  United States Geological Survey, 162

  University of New Orleans, 223

  University Place, 10

  The Upperline, 103

  Upper Ninth Ward, 108

  Uptown, 61, 69, 108–114, 116–117, 121–122, 130, 132, 133, 138, 141, 148, 160, 176, 204

  Urban Land Institute (ULI), 204

  urban planning and redevelopment, 168

  Urban Warriors Sno-balls, 115

  URS Group, Inc., 221

  USA Today, 164

  Van der Rohe, Mies, 200

  the Vatican, 229

  Vatican II, 207, 209, 221

  Venturi, Robert, 80

  vernacular, 102, 121, 133, 138

  vernacular architecture: commercial, 70, 138, 144

  outsider, 132–134. See also vernacular housing

  vernacular housing, 68

  camelback shotgun, 68, 93

  creole cottage, 68, 95, 99

  double shotgun, 68, 93

  shotgun, 20, 68, 102–103

  Veteran’s Memorial Boulevard, 75, 76, 88

  Vieux Carré, 51, 69, 70–73, 79, 85–87, 103, 122, 138–142, 139, 159, 182, 184

  Villarrubia, David, 220, 221

  Villere Street, 122

  Vincent’s Italian Restaurant. See Compagno’s

  vintage neon, 53, 73

  Vitascope, 160

  Voltaire, 229

  Walgreen’s, 93

  Wal-Mart, 148, 194, 199

  Warehouse District, 134, 149

  Washington, D.C., 221, 228

  Washington Street, 47, 114, 180, 182

  Waveland, MS, 196

  Webb, Rain, 103

  Weegees’s Tavern, 182, 182, 183

  Wendy’s, 88

  West, H.G., 200

  West Africa, 102, 125

  West Bank, 69

  West Coast, 90

  West End, 152

  amusement park, 155

  pavilions, 154

  Wet Grave, 139

  wetlands, 83

  White, Domino, 129

  White City, 68, 86, 156, 157

  white flight, 47, 116, 161

  White Tower restaurants, 69

  Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indian Tribe, 120

  Wild Wayne’s Seafood Shack, 81, 81

  Willard-Lewis, Cynthia, 220

  Williams, Leslie, 225

  Williams, Tennessee, 146

  Willow Street, 8, 70, 130

  Wilshire Boulevard, 69

  Wonderwall. See World’s Fair

  World Monument Fund, 232

  World’s Fair (1984), 134–135, 138, 148, 160

  Wonderwall, 135, 149

  World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884), 143, 143

  World Trade Center, 221, 226, 232

  World War II, 113, 142, 171, 200, 207, 231

  WOW Café and Wingery, 14–15, 15

  Yamasaki, Minoru, 221

  Yugoslavia, 218

  zero lot line condition, 99–100

  zoning laws, 93, 100, 143, 184,

  Zulu krewe, 123

  parade, 120

  Zvornik, 218