Photos
taken
May 25, 2001 |
Iberia
Street to French Street |
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Now undergoing
restoration and re-named the Gouguenheim Building after its firts owners,
this was a ten-cent store when I was a kid. |
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Historic: These old galleries are now being restored. Morgan and Lindsey
dime store, as well as Elks hall in this photo. |
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The card
store now next door used to be here. |
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Guess what!
This card store used to be one building east. How much longer will it even
be open? |
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Victor's
Cafeteria. Breakfast hotspot and good fried catfish on Friday for lunch. |
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Detail:
James Lee Burke's fictional detective eats here! |
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Chamber
of Commerce. |
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Where prom-bound
guys get their garb. |
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Gifts,
etc. for sale. |
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Built as
an office for a thrift institution, this was a very modern building at its
introduction, and I think its classic lines still hold well today. |
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Under renovation. |
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For many
years, Abdalla's, the premier clothing store in New Iberia. Now being renovated
into office spaces. |
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Known for
a time as "Sanford's Manufacturing Jewelers," as he liked to make
his own settings, etc. |
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For many
years, a group of New Iberia artists operated a small gallery here. |
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This building
now connects to the building on the corner, and houses radio studios and
offices. |
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Now the
entrance to the offices of a powerful country radio station, this was, in
my childhood, a drugstore with marvelously crowded dark shelves. |
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Historic: In the days as a drug store. |
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Photos
taken
May 25, 2001 |
French
Street to Jefferson Street |
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When I
took this photo, it took me aback at how small this builing was. When I
was a child, this was the Specialty Store, a big dry goods outlet, with
a most fascinating basket-on-a-string method of sending tickets from one
floor to the next. Today it is office space. |
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Now and
insurance office, this was once a big part of the Frederic Hotel, the grand
downtown hotel of New Iberia. When I was in high school, we had dances it
the hotel's ball room. |
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Historic: The Frederic Hotel, ca.1940. |
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Historic: Lobby of hotel. |
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Historic: Hotel Evangeline, a predecssor at this same site to the Frederic. |
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Guidry's
Cake Shop, a favorite spot. |
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Bar. |
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Bad news
for bugs. |
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Now a florist
and gift shop, this building has housed a number of things over the years.
When we were in high school, there was a Pitt Grill here. It lasted at least
through the time we lived around the corner on Jefferson St., and was handy
in the days that I did darkroom work and liked a bowl of soup at 2 a.m. |
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Photos
taken
May 25, 2001 |
Jefferson
St. to Railroad Ave. |
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Episcoal
Church, where there is now an elementary school; each morning, the school
meets in the church for Chapel. |
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Parish
Hall for the Church. |
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Several
buildings along this block now are part of the school complex. |
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Now a boating
dealership, was once a used car lot. |
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Historic: LeBlanc and Broussard used car lot. |
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