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Mar 28, 2012 · March 28, 2012. Storyville. Seated woman wearing striped stockings, drinking "Raleigh" Rye. Wikipedia. In the decades after Reconstruction, sporting men came to New Orleans from across the...
Feb 7, 2013 · Discover Storyville in New Orleans, Louisiana: Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District.".
Feb 19, 2012 · Storyville District. 10 reviews. #322 of 585 things to do in New Orleans. Neighborhoods. Write a review. About. A popular restaurant and club with several different stages for jazz and blues performances. Suggest edits to improve what we show. Improve this listing. Tours & experiences. Explore different ways to experience this place. See options.
May 16, 2017 · NEW ORLEANS — Storyville in New Orleans may be the most famous American red light district, but little of it survives. After prostitution in Storyville was prohibited in 1917, its...
Rhythm of Storyville. Storyville was filled with cabarets, dance halls, saloons, and honky-tonks—all of which required music on an almost nightly basis. The ubiquitous nature of music within the District is apparent in Storyville’s guidebooks.
Situated in the city’s Fourth Ward, the approximately ten square blocks that defined Storyville extended from the uptown side of Customhouse (now Iberville) Street to the uptown side of St. Louis Street, and from the lake side of Basin Street to the river side of North Robertson Street.
Storyville became a financially successful entertainment mecca, attracting white men of means from around the country as part of the city’s emerging winter tourism economy. Concurrently, a separate red-light district for African American patrons—known as Uptown, or Black, Storyville—operated quasi-legally near the site of today’s city hall.
