New Orleans, city of old romance and new oportunity. Southern railway system (1920) (14597589440)

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Title: New Orleans, city of old romance and new oportunity. Southern railway system

Year: 1920 (1920s)

Authors: (Southern railway company) (from old catalog)

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Publisher: (New Orleans, Bauerlein, inc.

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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JIFTEEN minutes auto ride from the heart of the city, is West End,and a Httle beyond, Spanish Fort, both on Lake Pontchartrain. AtJ2^ West End is the Southern Yacht Club, one of the oldest organizationsof the kind in the United States. It is the center of one of the largest motorbeat activities in the country. Water sports last throughout the year, though the regatta season is in thesummer time. Lake Pontchartrain is land-locked, and therefore gives protec-tion to the small pleasure craft. The drive to West End is one of the famous thoroughfares. It was on this,formerly a shell road, that the men of fashion in the old steamboat days used totry out their blooded horses. Spanish Fort is the amusement park of the city. The ruins of the old fort,which the Spaniards built to protect the approach to New Orleans by Bayou St. A YACHT RACE ON LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN

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T:lge 18^^- John, are still preserved. Nearby, arethe remains of the Holland submarine,built during the Civil War, and one ofthe pioneers of under-water craft. One of the citys most famousrestaurants is at Spanish Fort. Another pleasant drive is to LittleWoods, further down the coast of Pont-chartrain. This is 20 miles from thecity. It is a picnic, fishing and bath-ing center in summer. Still further down the lakeshore, isShell Beach, another fishing and huntingcenter. There are many beautiful drives nearNew Orleans through the cypressswamps and the laughing cane fields. One of the prettiest is through theEvangeline country of the Teche. Or, if one prefers a water trip, thereare commodious steamboats plying thelower Mississippi. On these trips you will see the banksof the Mississippi fringed with orangegroves; and the bayou country, wheregreat oak trees stretch their branchesshaggy with moss, across the pellucidstreamis; and where the people stillretain the characteristics that makeLo

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