My paternal Great-GreatGrandfather Garret Clare immigrated from Ireland to New Orleans in 1851 when he was just maybe 14,or 15.Garret became a naturalized citizen in October 1868 here in New Orleans.

Gammie Jones Yeah but New Orleans was majority white back then. Even the ninth ward too. All those whites and you remember blacks the most? That's crazy.

The blacks sold the vegetables and went up and down the streets. The white street vendors had been dying out during our time and the young didn't take their place so this is the memory of my generation. My parents and grandparents were a different story. The white vendor and most of the black vendors parked their trucks and sold on the corners instead of traveling the streets.

@@IslenoGutierrez Your a white Hispanic that's oblivious. New Orleans was always a Black City,going back to Congo Square where the slaves would sell their hand made consumer goods. Even though it was Treme who btw was a white slave holder that bought the swamp land at that time,it was those newly free Black slaves/ those blacks that was still enslaved that cultivated the land & created the oldest Black community in the United States.

@@Upcamehill The white vendors were selling in the French Market. There are numerous pictures of them doing so. My great-grandfather used to buy from them.

@@TheJayblaze3 You obviously don’t have any grasp of New Orleans’ demographic history. New Orleans was majority white before 1980. There are US Census’ that demonstrate this. Also, when Congo Square was being used by slaves, whites were still the majority. There is a demographic chart listed by decade created by Geography professional Richard Campanella at Tulane University that shows decade by decade the population of New Orleans by white, black and mulatto since colonial times and whites were the majority of the city every decade since colonial times except 1810-1830 and 1980 until the present. That’s a total of about 70 years out of 300 that were not majority white. So for 230 years, whites were the majority in New Orleans. That’s the majority of New Orleans’ history. As for cultivating the land, it was a combination of white craftsmen and laborers, white indentured servants and prisoners, mulatto indentured servants and prisoners, laborers and craftsmen and black slaves. So everyone chipped in. Don’t make it as if only blacks cultivated the land. You forgot who founded and created New Orleans? And as for the “oldest black community in the US”, no that’s not in New Orleans. Areas on the east coast had slaves before Louisiana did. The Tremé is the oldest continually inhabited “black” neighborhood (I put “black” in quotations because most of the Tremé population has historically been mulattoes and today it’s increasingly white). And all of New Orleans that wasn’t the French quarter, Bayou St. John, Bayou road or Gentilly ridge was a swamp that was drained. I’m not trying to play a white vs black game here of who did more or added more to New Orleans because God knows whites added huge amounts. I’m just saying that we all chipped in to make New Orleans what it is. But don’t try to delete us from our own city that we created because it won’t work. New Orleans needs all of us in order to be New Orleans, not just some of us.

Well-done.

Same with my mothers family. They were from southern Mississippi about 60 miles from New Orleans and they went there often. They also had relatives who lived in N.O. and Gulfport. Dads family were from south-eastern Mississippi about 50 miles from Mobile, Alabama so they frequented there more often than New Orleans. Visited both cities & family farms many times on family vacations "back home". Both are/were great old gulf coast creole cities & proud of my heritage associated with them.

Armand Rodriguez ...Yeah, U rite, sans doute ! :)☮⚜

And you've got a friend like me playing in the background

Only in the summer. It's beautiful for the rest of the year. I don't see many roaches either. And it's a city with 90% historic districts, great food, music, and friendly people--the most beautiful, enchanting city in the country. I know. I moved here two years ago because of this very reason.

Only the finest flying roaches!

@@jenniferwilliams4011 many a brave man tremble when the mighty cockroach takes to wing.

Correct, used a youtube video playing an original 78, thus the pops and scratches.

It's a great mix of sound and images. Thanks for sharing!

@@devroshart ...which made it all the more enjoyable and charming.

Haha, yes. RDR2!

Being roughing it out since 1718⚜ Humidity,heat,mosquitos we have it all

If we didn't have the humidity, it wouldn't be so bad there.

I don't mean to get... Political??? But it is hotter now than it was in the 1920s because of global warming, it was much cooler back then that's why you see people wearing long sleeves, pants, skirts, and other stuff to keep them warm.

Yeah now fools that are butt hurt about history want it and others removed as though that will change anything, Thanks Obama!

+Shane Marcotte Nope. People don't want to remove the Andrew Jackson statue in Jackson Square. He was a president of the United States and a hero in the Battle of New Orleans against the British. It's the memorializing of Confederate generals and officials who didn't contribute to anything else note-worthy other than fighting for slavery and the South to secede. I personally think Robert E. Lee should stay in Lee Circle as he wasn't a raging racist and didn't own slaves himself. He would've been the general for the Union army but couldn't turn his back on his home state of Virginia. In any event, how would you feel if you were African-American and every day had to pass by huge statues honoring men who's only footnotes in history were because they wanted to keep your ancestors enslaved? Let's put them in museums and honor people who truly deserve it. That's not forgetting our history but embracing it & showing we are no longer the racist segregationists who put up those statues.

Lan Yap Leave those statues alone! They are part of New Orleans history. Better them than union soldiers that came and made New Orleans surrender to them. Those statues are history. We have become a pussy society that everything offends everybody. Get over it! What are we gonna do, start tearing down the back of houses in the French Quarters because they have slave quarters attached, so blacks don't feel offended? Are we gonna destroy the courtyards where they purchased slaves at? Or destroy the docks where slaves got off boats? Of course not. If that was the case, we'd have to tear down half of New Orleans. That's ridiculous. New Orleans has been a majority white city for most of its existence, but in the 80s it became majority black. Guess what? When blacks took over the government, they changed most of the names of whites on schools and libraries and even streets to names of blacks. Where is the cry for racism there? It's funny how it's a one way street these days. Just forget about it. History is history. Leave it at that and stop wanting to cover up history because you feel it offends someone. This overly sensitive politically correct bullshit has got to stop!

Jackson's monument serves also as an anti-Confederate symbol, since U.S. Army Gen. Butler had carved into its base: "The Union Must and Shall be Preserved"!

It was hardly air conditioning as we know it, but the architecture, with high ceilings, and dormer windows reportedly did an admirable job of keeping the houses livable.

Not "part of Louisiana', ALL of it. They still had Florida but that was never considered part of Louisiana.

When I posted this 12 years ago, I was crossing my fingers that it was public domain, but I didn’t know for certain.

@@devroshart Do you have a source link? should we credit you or someone else? Do you have the original footage so we can use those clips? What's a good email to contact/exchange?

Yes

@@devroshart thank you!

Were in another "Roaring 20s!" right now. Enjoy it! Hope history doesn't repeat itself with another world war follow up like the last time.

Don't forget the traitor Landrieu family, while you're at it.

False, it's actually been proven that Irish immigrants built New Orleans. The Irish were put in the swamps to dig the canals. Canals that were responsible for bringing wealth to the city

+edline It sure does -

Time traveler. 😏

C.J. Love What? There were hardly any blacks in the film. New Orleans was majority white back then.

C.J. Love Yes..(can't believe I'm taking up for a Falcons fan) & btw I'm white & proud of the Black heritage that gives Nola so much of our gr8, historic culture. Look at the Creole cooking history video, here on uTube.. Also try to imagine Jazz, Roots & Blues music without black pioneers - it's impossible - Just turn on WWOZ radio now & then,, they'll hit this point home. Actually, the mixed cultural roots...Creole & more... make Nola a rare place where Native Indians, French, Spanish, Irish & others came together to live & party in a way that is hard to match anywhere else on Earth.. and that's something everybody down here should be proud of, Heck the planet needs more of this positive cultural mix & celebration. 🎯📡🎨🍺🍴🍸

rob M. Don’t forget the white heritage that added to New Orleans’s homegrown culture called creole culture such as the architecture, Mardi Gras, the fleur de lis symbol, Catholicism (the football team ain’t named the saints for nothing), the drinking culture, the crawfish boil and many of the foods like jambalaya, crawfish étouffée, beignets, muffulettas, poboys, pralines, French bread as well as many of the ingredients in the gumbo like the roux, the smoked sausage and the trinity (onion, bell pepper, celery) and don’t forget the street cars! New Orleans is melting pot culture that we call Creole culture. It’s a little bit of all the folks that settled it at one time or another!

C.J. Love You are seeing things, most of the people in the film were white. That was back when New Orleans was a majority white city and blacks were a small minority.

@@IslenoGutierrez In the 1920s probably about 30% including a very large mixed race creole population.

@Go it’s clear what I was talking about in my comment. Read it again and figure it out.

@Go Well first of all, I wasn’t complaining, I was giving my opinion of an observation based on the time period in relation to the demographics. You took it as a complaint because maybe your mind is hostile to such a thought as a majority white New Orleans, which existed for most of the life of New Orleans. Second of all, the culture of whites in the city of New Orleans is immense and we can see it in the architecture, food, religion, funerary practices, celebrations, language, history and art. In fact, the city was founded by whites and they have made up its majority for most of its existence. Even it’s place names came from whites, and yes even the names of most of it’s streets. Even the names of most of the schools were too until the 1980’s and beyond when blacks took over city government and started changing the names of schools from white names to black ones, en masse. But the white names still exist among many schools. And am I hispanic or white? Well when you understand that hispanic is not a race, the better equipped that you would be for such a debate. Hispanic means Spain or related to Spain. I’m actually both white and Hispanic at the same time. I’m creole at the same time too. How? Well let’s see, I’m white because my ancestors are of European origin. I’m Hispanic because my ancestry is from Spain. And I’m creole because I’m a native born Louisianian and I descend from the colonial population of Louisiana who used the term creole for themselves and to mean born in Louisiana or any other French, Spanish or Portuguese colony. Any more questions?

Who cares

@@rollitupmars People who like history cares. I assume you’re not one of them.

@@IslenoGutierrez Without blacks New Orleans culture wouldn’t even be a thing sorry bud and this is coming from a white person.