Bourbon Street: A History

Contents

ix Contents Preface - xiii Part I: Origins 1. A Straight Line in a Sinuous Space: Creating Rue Bourbon, 1682–1722 - 3 2. A Streetscape Emerges: Rue Bourbon and Calle Borbon, 1722–1803 - 17 3. A Transect of Antebellum Society: Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Caste on Bourbon Street, 1803–1860 - 29 4. A Smell So Unsavory: Managing Bourbon Street in the Mid-1800s - 45 5. A Place to “See the Elephant”: Antecedents of Modern-Day Bourbon Street - 54 Part II: Fame and Infamy 6. How Bourbon Street Germinated: 1860s–1910s - 73 7. How Bourbon Street Blossomed: 1910s–1920s - 94 8. How Bourbon Street Flourished: Late 1920s–Mid-1940s - 105 9. How Bourbon Street Exploded: Late 1940s–Early 1960s - 141 10. How Bourbon Street Degenerated: Late 1960s–1970s - 201 11. How Bourbon Street Stabilized: 1980s–Present - 222 Part III: Bourbon Street as a Social Artifact 12. Locating Bourbon Street: Why Here? - 253 13. Working Bourbon Street: How the Machine Runs - 259 14. Challenging Bourbon Street: The Rise of the Anti-Bourbons - 283 15. Hating Bourbon Street: On Iniquity and Inauthenticity - 292 16. Replicating Bourbon Street: Spatial and Linguistic Diffusion - 304 17. Redeeming Bourbon Street: The Cheerful Defiance of Adversity - 309 Notes - 313 Index - 353 This page intentionally left blank ...