And thus did Storyville become history.... - Gary Krist - Quotes.Pub

And thus did Storyville become history.

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Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I’ve heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad.

This was, after all, New Orleans in 1890- the Crescent City of the Gilded Age, where aliases of convenience and unconventional living arrangements were anything but out of the ordinary, at least in certain parts of town. Identities were fluid here, and names and appearances weren’t always the best guide to telling who was who.

New Orleans’ rebellious and free-spirited personality is nothing if not resilient. And so the disruptive energies of the place- its vibrancy and eccentricity, its defiance and nonconformity, and yes, its violence and depravity- are likely to live on.

New Orleans, it was often observed, was the first American metropolis to build an opera house, but the last to build a sewage system.

As one Victorian minister put it in 1868, “It is no easy matter to go to heaven by way of New Orleans.

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But there’s fear and there’s panic, y’know. Calm is what matters to the bees. Calm without fear is a peril, and fear without calm doubly so. But the man who can hold both at once within his breast will not be harmed.

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It is no easy matter to go to heaven by way of New Orleans.

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This new black music represented excess and licentiousness, a direct flouting of traditional moral values.

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It is no easy matter to go to heaven by way of New Orleans. —REVEREND J. CHANDLER GREGG

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So much, it would seem, for the music that would eventually be regarded as the first truly American art form.

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex Quotes Jazz Quotes Murder Quotes and the Battle for Modern New Orleans Quotes

Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I've heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad.

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