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Lake Pontchartrain (Images of America) |
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Spanish Fort Picnics and Dancing |
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 By the 1870’s and 1880’s a railroad line
made a ride from the city to the lake relatively easy. This 1919 advertisement for Spanish Fort Amusement Park touts “Spacious
Picnic Grounds” and invites guests to “bring the kiddies…It’ll be of benefit to every member of the
family”. .  The Spanish Fort pavilion, the site of band concerts
and lectures, hosted notables including William Makepeace Thackeray and General Ulysses S. Grant. This 1919 advertisement
announces a concert with “strains of well rendered music by Paoletti’s Band” in the “Model Dancing
Pavilion”.
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Excerpts from New Orleans City Park (Images of America)
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