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Richard Campanella

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New Orleans geographer; author; professor and associate dean for research-Tulane School of Architecture; Louisiana Writer Award; Chevalier-Palmes Académiques
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What was New Orleans like in 1776? Take a look back for America's 250th birthday.

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By Richard Campanella
| The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Verified
It is a steamy July morning in 1776, and you have just landed at "La Nueva Orleans," capital of the Spanish colony of "Luisiana." If river conditions allowed, your brigantine or frigate may have sailed directly up from the Gulf. But in this era, shoals or contrary winds often impeded entry into the Mississippi, forcing passengers and cargo to transfer to longboats at the remote garrison of La Baliza for the grueling journey upriver.
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New Orleans' 1926 trade exhibition in 9th Ward spawned an idea that spread worldwide

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By Richard Campanella
| The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Verified
If New Orleans has honed one economic forte in the past century, it sits at the intersection of pleasure and business. Tourism is our largest employment sector; business travel is its most lucrative component; and boosters know to extol the city’s cultural glories in highlighting its economic opportunities. But it took local ingenuity to turn this co-marketing concept into a branded event.
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Before and after segregation, this park near Metairie Road was enjoyed by all New Orleanians

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By Richard Campanella
| The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Verified
From 1866 to 1905, one recreational area in New Orleans stood apart for its variety of uses and diversity of users. Known interchangeably as Oakland Course, Oakland Park or Oakland Riding Park, it occupied an expanse of the Metairie Ridge where present-day City Park Avenue becomes Metairie Road.
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