Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945

Index

INDEX Abe Lyman Orchestra, 135 Acme Oyster House, 25 advertising: and First World War, 32; and Mississippi Flood of 1927, 40; and tourism development, 48, 60, 65, 68, 100, 132, 134, 190–91 Africa, 8, 15 African Americans, 229; displacement of, 152; as enslaved people, 3, 12, 16, 145, 225; and free blacks, 6, 8, 12; and image of mammy, 229–30; large population percentage of, 6, 15, 145, 150, 206, 243; and manumission, 6; and middle class, 202; and out-migration, 22, 276–77n2; and post–Civil War violence, 10; as prostitutes, 116; stereotypes of, 144, 220, 221, 233 Aitkens, Felix, 237 Alabama, 45, 56, 198, 239 Alexandria, La., 108 Allen, Frederick Lewis, 54 Allen, O. K., 79 Amer, A. S., 50, 174 American Broadcasting Company, 240 American City, 40 American Food Manufacturers Association, 47 American Institute of Architects, 154, 157 American Legion, 44, 47, 48, 178 American Revolution, 13 Anderson, Sherwood, 2, 11, 41–43, 129, 145, 146 Anti-Saloon League, 134 anti-Semitism, 11, 208 antiurbanism, 3, 14 Antoine’s, 147 Arcadia Dance Hall, 119, 120 303 Armstrong, Louis, 200, 207, 239, 241 Aron, Cindy, 45 Arthur, Stanley, 232 Art League, 151 Arts and Crafts Club, 144, 151, 152 Asbury, Herbert, 131 Associated Ad Clubs of the World, 47 Associated Press, 25 Association of Commerce, 24, 28, 30–33, 37, 76, 86, 241; advocacy by, for road construction, 53– 54; and Anderson, Sherwood, affair, 42–43; and Civic Affairs Committee, 93, 98; direct mail campaign of, 60–61; and French Opera House, 50; and French Quarter, 153, 156, 157; and Great Depression, 71; and Mardi Gras, 174, 177, 178, 183, 190; and musicians, 200–201, 204; News Bulletin of, 34, 35, 42, 44, 48, 54, 59, 61, 139; relationship of, with Convention and Tourism Bureau, 46–47; role of, in tourism development, 38, 39, 41, 45, 48, 57, 83, 92, 160–61, 221; and suppression of vice, 112, 139, 158; and Visitor’s Route, 93; and Wilson, Harold, 115 Association of Piano Tuners, 202 Atlanta, Ga., 65, 83 Atlantic City, N.J., 37 Atlantic Monthly, 19, 68 Audubon Elementary School, 185 Audubon Park, 14 Aunt Sally’s, 231, 241 automobiles, 22, 23, 24, 30, 52, 253n53; as industry, 55, 73; and prostitution, 147; and tourism, 54–56, 60, 66, 128, 155, 182, 238 Bacino’s Bar and Cocktail Lounge, 231 Bailey, Beth, 130 Baltimore, Md., 16 barbers, 132–33 Baton Rouge, La., 60, 87, 89, 90 Battle of Liberty Place, 213 Battle of New Orleans, 63, 96 Bauer, Nicholas, 185 Bayhl, Rosella, 127 Bayou Classic, 241 Beauregard, P. G. T., 51, 211 Beauregard Square, 51, 211, 214 Bechet, Sidney, 197 Behre, Charles, 205 Behrman, Martin, 43–44, 47, 107– 10, 122, 123; and French Quarter, 152, 154, 160 Belasco, Warren, 22 Bell, Herbert, 181 Belle of New Orleans (film), 137 Belle of the Nineties (film), 137 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 98 Bienville Street, 118, 147 Biloxi (Miss.) Chamber of Commerce, 132 Birmingham, Ala., 65, 83 Black, Hugo, 86 blue laws, 46, 112, 175 blues, 198 304 Index Borean Presbyterian Church, 121 Boston, Mass., 5, 10, 52 Bourbon Street, 25, 118, 135, 143, 154, 158, 166–67, 170–71, 210 Bowman, Harry, 219 Bradford, Roark, 167, 169, 220 Brando, Marlon, 240 Brave Creoles Run, 96, 97 Bremer, Fredrika, 17 Bremer, Laville, 137, 138 Broussard, Bill, 236 Brownell, Blaine, 62 Buccaneer, The (film), 97 Buel, J. W., 7, 8 Bureau of Protective Social Measures, 112 Burgundy Street, 121, 150 Burk, Lillian, 124 bus, 56, 58 Business and Professional Women’s Club, 230 Cabildo, 66, 186 Cable, George Washington, 17–18, 214–15 Cadillac Nite Club and Bar, 135 Café du Monde, 25 Café Lafitte, 167 Cajuns, 146, 218, 244 California, 2, 26, 35, 36, 52, 56, 118 Callender, Wilson, 64 Campbell, Colin, 12 Canal Street, 5, 50, 84, 145, 155, 163, 170; in Faulkner’s Pylon, 192; and fireworks, 99; information booths on, 177; and “Keep New Orleans Clean” campaign, 94; renovation of, in 1920s, 73; restrooms on, 134; and restrictions on vice, 106, 114 Capone, Al, 89 Carmelites, 150 Carnival, 20, 106, 132, 175–76, 178, 182. See also Mardi Gras; Mardi Gras parades Carondelet Street, 99 Carrollton Business Men’s Association , 94 Carter, Betty Werlein, 145 Carter, Hodding, 180–81 Caruso, M. A., 204 Casanas, B. C., 34 Cash, W. J., 114 Catholicism, 1, 8, 12, 26; and Irish, 9; Protestant suspicion...