1920s

Clean and refrigerated, private groceries enticed customers away from the old-fashioned, often unkempt markets. To compete, public markets—including the French Market—were rebuilt in the 1920s and 30s, but to no avail.

1920 Frenchman Joseph Broussard opens Broussard’s Restaurant at 819 Conti Street.

1920 Through a donation from William Ratcliffe Irby, Tulane University acquires and renovates the grand Paul Morphy House at 417 Royal Street and rents it to the Patio Royal, a popular restaurant of the 1920s–40s.

Basin Street owes its name to the turning basin at the end of the Carondelet Canal, also known as the Old Basin Canal. The oyster luggers shown in this 1904 postcard disappeared when the waterway was filled in during the 1920s. For years thereafter, though, several oyster wholesalers along nearby Rampart Street served as a reminder of the canal and its uses. The trees visible in the center of this view, by the way, are in historic Congo Square. [Louisiana Postcard Collection: New Orleans Canals]

Prytania Market
6538 CCS 1921 Providing for the advertisement and sale of franchise on Prytania Market site. Prytania, Upperline, Lyons & Perrier

Prytania, 4800
Prytania Market
Additions and Alterations
May 24, 1922
N/A
Stone, Sam Jr.

Pyrtania Market
7521 CCS 1923 Recognizing assignment of market franchise sold to Charles F. Buck, Jr., to the New Prytania Market Association, in accordance with 6538 CCS.

Delamore Market
8002 CCS 1924 Recognizing the assignment of market franchise to the Delamore Market Association, by John L. Oster, as provided for by 7502 CCS

1929 A major streetcar strike leaves many drivers low on funds. The owners of Martin Brothers Restaurant in the French Market (former streetcar workers themselves) offer free sandwiches to their union brothers, reduced by the strike to “poor boys.”

Prytania Market
6538 CCS 1921 Providing for the advertisement and sale of franchise on Prytania Market site. Prytania, Upperline, Lyons & Perrier

Prytania, 4800
Prytania Market
Additions and Alterations
May 24, 1922
N/A
Stone, Sam Jr.

Pyrtania Market
7521 CCS 1923 Recognizing assignment of market franchise sold to Charles F. Buck, Jr., to the New Prytania Market Association, in accordance with 6538 CCS.

Delamore Market
8002 CCS 1924 Recognizing the assignment of market franchise to the Delamore Market Association, by John L. Oster, as provided for by 7502 CCS