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1800s

1859 Bruning's

1861 Polka March by the Washington Artlillery Band

1893 Bruning's Home

1900s

1903 Seeing New Orleans Trolly

1900s Bearings Service Company

1907 Prytania & Annunciation Streetcars

1910s

1914 Codifer, Inc.

1914 Quarrella's Midway

1915 Ostrich Farm

1919 Spanish Fort Advertisement

1920s

1922 Pontchartrain Railroad/Smokey Mary Schedule

1925 Jax, Best Grape, Best Orange, Cherry Pop

1928 Rieth's Florist

1928 Walsdorf's Drugs & Gifts

1930s

1930s Little Woods

1934 Spanish Fort Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)

1934 Shushan Airport

1937 WPA in City Park

1937 Delerno's Restaurant

1937 Grover's Place

1937 Jax Beer

1939 Swan Boat in City Park

1937 Louis E. Gruber

1937 Luzianne Coffee

1937 Masset's Tavern

1937 Metairie Road

1937 Great Atlantic & Pacific

1937 Mussolini Sandwiches

1937 Old Union Beer

1937 Regal Beer

1937 4 - X Beer

1930s Tregle's Restaraunt & Bar (Club Tregle)

1940s

1940 Buck's Famous Fried Chicken

1941 West End

1941 Schwegmann Airline

1941 Colonial Hotel Courts

1940s "Enlist Now!"

1945 Suburban Bowling Alley

1946 Associated Neighborhood Pharmacists

1949 Jefferson Bottling Company

1949 Gonzales Motors

1949 Borden's on Airline

1949 Foray's Restaurant

1949 Garsaud's Fine Meats-Foods

1950s

1950s Greenwood, Luzianne, Hibernia

1950 St. Regis Restaurant & Motel

1955 NORD Casting Pier

1956 Crescent Drive-In Theater

1956 Maison Blanch Airline

1957 Pat's (Pat Gillen's) Bars

1958 Restaurant Sclafani

1959 Kent's Golden Parrot -- later The Sands

1960s

1960s Story Land

1961 Mike Persia Chevrolet

1961 Barnett's

1962 Metairie Road Shopping Center

1962 Candlelight Inn

1963 Airline Bowl

1964 Beatles in New Oreans

1965 Beauty School of Metairie

1965 Pelican Paint Company

1966 Lobby Library

1967 Meydrich's Fine Foods

1968 Woolco

1969 Causeway 2nd Span Opens

1970s

1975 Holmes

1980s

1990s

2000s

2007 Frostop

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Barq's

Unknown Reno's Restaurant

Jean Marie Saux/Ralph's on the Park Bulding - City Park Avenue

St. Joseph's Parochial School

French Fried Popcorn

Holt Cemetery

City Park's Pizzati Gate

Stanley Ray's OK Radio Group

Dixie Baking Co.

Cohans

Arthur Brisbane

Godchaux

Tables for Ladies

Sun Coffee Shop

Gorton's Minstrels

Luzianne Coffee

Oriental Laundry

Sauls Grocery

Unknown Milenberg Joys

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The Airline Bowling Center at 7401 (four blocks west of David Drive) was new in 1963 when the advertisement below was placed. It was the first in the south to offer “Automatic Sparemasters”. The location is now a Lions Club Bingo Hall. Down the road at 7875 was another McKenzie’s Pastry Shoppe.

(Courtesy of the Jefferson Parish Yearly Review.)