Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Twelve: Uptown – Riverbend and Our First Apartment

This in the twelfth in a series of images of New Orleans neighborhoods taken in February 2010 the weekend before the Super Bowl victory and two weeks for Mardi Gras. I certainly did not have time to cover them all but this series will provide a glimpse of the city that I hope you will want to visit.

The Riverbend area gets its name from the bend the Mississippi River takes at this point. St. Charles Avenue turns to the right to follow this bend and become Carrolton Avenue. The St. Charles Avenue street car continues up to Claiborne Avenue. It is part of the site of the village of Carrolton started in 1833 and annexed by New Orleans in 1874 and part of the East Carrollton neighborhood. The Camillia Grill is great for breakfast (see below)

 I lived here in the 1950s. We had an apartment that was on the right side of the real estate office seen in the first picture after the map.  You can see my father, my dog and I on the left in our small front yard. We had just returned from a fishing trip to the bayous.  My father would rent a pirogue and we would catch a lot of fish, all of which were eaten. My father cleaned them, my mother cooked. The real estate office has now taken over the whole building. When I lived there, a pottery studio was on the left side.  You can see the bend of St. Charles as it becomes Carrolton Avenue in the next picture after our building. Then the next picture looks the other way up Carrolton Avenue.  Like the Uptown area south of Magazine Street there are a lot of shotgun houses. 

Like many areas in the city there are blue on white tiles on the street corner side walks that designate the streets. I lived at the corner of Maple and Short and you can see the tiles below. By some accounts, the tiles started being planted in New Orleans sidewalks in the 1870s.

                                  
 
 
 

Comments

[Paul Tamburello]

Hey Bill,
We drove all the way down Carrollton en route to the last two days of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (which I will post about)and parked near the Fairgrounds Race Track Trafalgar entrance, right on Judith Woods' lawn on De Saix Blvd for $20. I believe we passed some of these places in your photos.
Here's a link to a story I wrote about the Camillia Grill, a nonpareil New Orleans destination.
http://ptatlarge.typepad.com/ptatlarge/2009/11/the-camellia-grill-sunny-side-up-in-new-orleans.html
Great memento photo of you, your dad, and your dog.
Looking forward to the next edition of this series.
Paul

[bill Ives]

Paul - I remember your great post on Camilla Grill. You drove near all of the places and past a few. Look forward to your Jazzfest posts. Bill