1920's New Orleans film on You Yube

Great find, Jim!!

I´m waiting for more :-).

Carmen

Jim: That's a real treasure. I could wish, however, that I had a good narrator to tell me what I was seeing. Great shots of freighters that pretty much have disappeared with the steamboats. Thanks for the link!

Unfortunately Jim is right about the high speed connection, which I don't have. If it shows ferries, they are probably the Canal St./Algiers pair, and one is probably the BISSO. The CAPITOL docked at Canal St. Wharves above Canal, near where the bridges are now were the banana wharves. The white ships of United Fruit Co. might be in the clip, bringing in those bananas...

Thanks Jim! Those long ago scenes of New Orleans are priceless and the scenes of the Streckfus steamer CAPITOL and the ferries are the icing on the cake!

Judy Patsch;4437 wrote: Unfortunately Jim is right about the high speed connection, which I don't have. If it shows ferries, they are probably the Canal St./Algiers pair, and one is probably the BISSO. The CAPITOL docked at Canal St. Wharves above Canal, near where the bridges are now were the banana wharves. The white ships of United Fruit Co. might be in the clip, bringing in those bananas...

Not only are the ships there, there are scenes of bananas being unloaded. The nameboards are visible on several boats, but I don't have high enough resolution to read them.

Lucky guess, I guess! I think this proves the need for me to upgrade my connection...lots of stuff I'm missing obviously. Several of the NATCHEZ' chief engineers retired from United Fruit, including Pete Falk and Tom MacCauley.... the film downloaded in about 2 hours. Here's what you see in the city: entrance to City Park, St. Roch's Chapel and cemetery, the Cabildo, balconies on Royal St., Pirates Alley, courtyard, Canal St., aerial view toward Algiers Point. The Inner Harbor Canal was completed in 1923, connecting the lake and river. That's where the first levee breach was into the lower 9th. The cotton wharves were at Press Street, and the coffee wharves adjacent to them. This would be about a mile down from the Natchez' dock. Coffee is still brought in and roasted there today. As I mentioned, the banana wharves were upstream where the cruise ship docks are today at Julia/Erato St. The Mardi Gras parade was going by then-City Hall, now Gallier Hall and then onto Canal St. Note the mules which pulled the floats. Today its tractors. Yes, that was well worth waiting for, and how I wish the port were that busy today, with the Capitol still cavorting there. She ran in the NOLA harbor during the winter and then tramped up here in the summer.

That's a treasure, Jim, a time machine for sure.

Lots of "I never knew that" moments - like loading the boxcars onto the ship for Cuba ...

Also raises lots of questions for those of us with only a smattering of knowledge. For instance, at about 3:50 into the film, there's a big sternwheeler comes right to left across the frame and it has several structures above the top deck I can't identify. They kind of look like water tanks on a city rooftop - could they actually be reserve water for firefighting in the case of a loss of other pumps?

Thanks for turning this up for us all!