Algiers: The Right Bank


Part VI


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These pages from the 1958 yearbook of Martin Behrman High School show members of the graduating class "remembering when."

[The Bee, Martin Behrman High School Yearbook, 1958]

The Market Theater, located on Teche Street near Foto's Market, provided Algerines with silent movies and vaudeville acts. The theater's farewell performances took place on November 14, 1915. The next day, the owner, Philip Foto, opened a new movie house, Foto's Folly Theater.

[Behrman Administration Biography, 1912]

The interior of the Market Theater.

[Behrman Administration Biography, 1912]

The Algiers Regional Branch was the first of three regional branches built during the 1960s and 1970s. The branch was dedicated on April 19, 1966.

[Municipal Government Photograph Collection, NOPL Series]

The General Currie in dry-dock at Algiers, 1920.

[William J. Barker Photograph Collection]

Activity on the Mississippi River as seen from the Algiers waterfront, 1920.

[William J. Barker Photograph Collection]

The ferry boat New Orleans, ca. 1930s.

[William J. Barker Photograph Collection]

In 1927, Elias Pailet, a real estate developer and philanthropist, donated squares 1, 2 and 4 in Florence Park, Algiers, to the city of New Orleans for a park "to perpetuate the memory of the late Mayor Martin Behrman and at the same time in order to bestow a great benefaction on the citizens of New Orleans, and more particularly those residing in Algiers." The wording is from Ordinance CCS 9859, which authorized the city to accept Pailet's donation and dedicate the ground "in perpetuity" to commemorate Algiers' favorite son. Funds to build the park were gathered through public donations and subscriptions, and actual work began in 1928. The photograph shows the stadium at Behrman Park, constructed by the WPA, nearing completion, May 12, 1939.

[WPA Photograph Collection]

This paean to Martin Behrman, the "Father of Playgrounds," was published in the 1925 Annual Report of the New Orleans Playground Commission (published after the Mayor's death on January 2, 1926). Its literary merit is such that we couldn't resist displaying it here.
The Larkin Playground was established by Ordinance 8811 CCS on the site of the old St. John Market on Patterson St. near the Third District Ferry Landing for the purpose of a "wading pool center." The playground was named for Reverend Thomas J. Larkin, S.M., who served as pastor of Holy Name of Mary Church for many years.

[WPA Photograph Collection]

In 1937, the playground was the site of a "community sing," one of a series of concerts and sing-ins sponsored at parks and playgrounds city-wide by the WPA's Federal Music Project during the week of September 12. These two photographs show a crowd of happy Algerines enjoying the show.

[WPA Photograph Collection]

Eugene Brown, son of Jack Brown, near the corner of Hermosa Street and Majestic Place, ca. 1938. Steve Rao's grocery on Elmira Street is visible in the right background.

[William J. Barker Photograph Collection]

Scene on Majestic Place looking towards Hermosa Street, ca. 1938. The two men are Barker cousins from North Carolina.

[William J. Barker Photograph Collection]

William J. Barker and his automobile, "Aster," in front of 612 Bouny Street, ca. 1920s.

[William J. Barker Photograph Collection]

Members of the Calderaro family in front of their pharmacy at 541 Bermuda Street, ca. 1920s.

[William J. Barker Photograph Collection]


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