A visit to Storyville, New Orleans' most famous red light district
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LSU history professor and Storyville expert Dr. Alecia Long takes us through an explanation of how Storyville came to be and why it was closed 20 years later. This video was part of the 175 year anniversary of the founding of New Orleans' flagship newspaper, The Times-Picayune.
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Crazy how I lived in thosed projects my entire childhood and just now finding this out....
Me too. But only for a little while.
Yea it kinda explains alot
Sometimes our educational systems focus upon specific things and ignore very important information about who we all are as a people. Sometimes within own small communities we don’t pass on and share our important influences that brought forth our unique cultural heritages because many want to ignore the past to focus on the future and sweep under the rug of ugly human histories and ignore the truth of what has brought us into this moment in time. Politicians become more concerned upon their own personal image and legacy and look the other way ignoring the real needs of our communities of citizens who are dependent upon them for even the most basic of modern services like providing clean water and safe streets. One day we wake up and wonder “why I didn’t know this?” Sometimes it’s a convenient amnesia effect. If we don’t tell our citizens then these “civic leaders” can control what their constituents know and also these “civic leaders” think we should know. Knowledge is power. Controlling that knowledge is a most powerful tool of politics. Retelling that knowledge carefully edited to fit political agendas is a common device to control communities. So we can grow up in communities without any knowledge of our own important “true” heritages because information is conveniently withheld from the people then altered in a way that is politically “acceptable” to achieve a desired result. Humanity suffers as a result. The truth, however painful and as ugly as humans create, is still the best way to learn who we are as people of diverse cultures and if we are fed untrue knowledge then we become doomed to recreate human tragedies just as bad as the ones in the distant past we are trying to escape from. Sad but true.
I have a "Storyville" book that I bought at a Decatur St. shop. It's very interesting history.
Santina Belly Dance During the days of Storyville (1896-1917) there was an actual publication you could purchase along the docks and at the Train Stations and it was called the “Blue Book”. It was a small pocket reference book intended to serve as a “Guide” to the Establishments open for Adult Entertainment within the legal boundaries of the Storyville District. There were listings for each Business with a list of first names of the Ladies plying their trade. Each name was accompanied by a code letter. W for white, B for Black, M for Mulatto, Q for Quadroon, O for Octoroon, etc. Many of the most luxurious of the Storyville Bordellos even listed their Telephone Number. Interesting because it’s highly likely at that time that the Offices of Municipal Government did not yet have telephones while Storyville did!
Back in the early 1970s Local NO Historian Buddy Stahl, who was also a television spokesman for Radiophone, a pioneer in the early years of Cellular Communications, was often featured on local Radio and TV relating various stories of interest about N’Awlins Culture of the past and Radiophone actually reprinted copies of the “Blue Book”. I do have a copy too. Although it’s not an original print of an authentic Blue Book, it’s still pretty interesting to see such a publication.
Those pictures of Storyville were beautiful. It's such a shame that whole area was all knocked down to make way for...housing projects, of all things.
If the housing projects are no longer there, rebuilding a new Storyville with the same kind of architecture would do the city a great deal of beneficence.
Robert Gonshak I know, but sadly it just wouldn't be the same. Victorian style homes are so beautiful and I wish they could have respected the rich history but preserving what they could.
The housing projects are there to keep that Democratic voting base coming. They'll never be anything but. When these are run down, new ones will be built. New Orleans is doomed.
Roux ikr? Another French Quarter.
Oh shut UP
The project came decades afterward and it was a white only housing development.
Interesting video. Funny how the Dept. of the Navy felt it had an obligation to prevent young men from having a little fun before they departed for the killing fields of France. What's a little sex, alcohol, and gambling when the ultimate goal is murder from which a 19 year old kid might never return?
The thing the Navy was worried about was what was referred to as "social diseases" which were STD's. Remember, there was no cure... Syphilis would absolutely kill in horrible ways while disfiguring its victim. Gonorrhea could make someone feel really bad. There was no cure for any of these infections. It isn't "fun" when you get Venereal Diseases and there is nothing that doctors can do. This is the main reason men were advised to stay away from prostitutes. Even if a person uses a condom, they can still catch crabs and HPV while STILL being at risk for other infections. The government considered this high risk to be too much of a liability. I saw photographs of terminally ill wives who had facial deformities due to the syphilis they received from their husbands who visited whorehouses. Deformities like ulcerations, missing noses and holes in their craniums due to the infection eating away at their bones.
That was a cover up, cause these women kept contracting venereal dieases from their military boys, and they knew it was gonna blow up on them, cause the military boys were overseas contracting dieases from those foreign women, my dad served in world War 2, he was a marines, and they called them bath houses overseas , where these women were kept in poor health conditions, bathing in everyone's bath water, just filthy, so they bought it back with them and spreaded it too these women here even some of them gave it too their wives some left a lot of babies over there as well, if they weren't killed, or imprisoned, Amen
They didn’t want soldiers getting STDs. Sucks that they had to tear it down though.
Uncle Sam is and has always been BI-polar
Yeah. A little pumping action would seem a necessity, along with a bag of herbal medicine and maybe a couple of. Ebeneezers to chill you out before losing your grey matter to the soil.
Good documentary. Kinda short though. I'm really looking for more info on Lulu White and Mohogany Hall.
Very interesting story! I came here after watching Pretty baby Film. Love the music in the video, can someone tell me what is it?
you need to read "Empire of Sin" by Gary Kirst. There is a lot about Storyville in it.
Geraldine Kasper A good read..
I agree, nice stills of the old City, and Dr. Long tells us good stuff.
It's the greatest story that's been hardly told... Basin Street forever! ♥️🔥
Can you imagine how much tax money those historic properties would generate now as condos,bars, restaurants,etc.
And how much tax revenue the sex workers would have generated if they'd declared their income?
Its where jazz was born.
Thank you for posting this video. It was very well produced and delivered.
This is what happens when you let the federal government to trample on your rights.
I'm here because of the 1978 film "Pretty Baby".
Wikipedia says "In 1917, during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-sniffing Madame Nell. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. When photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and Violet are the only people awake. He asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay.
Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon."
I worked at a drive in theater in 1978, we ran that movie, I was 16. I still remember one particular nude scene of Brooke Shields, she was 12 year old. I remember at the time, there was a stink in Hollywood to arrest the producers of that film for child pornography, but I don't think they ever did.
I have the movie on DVD. Have never really understood the very ending at the train depot. Was it because Violet was having her picture taken? Something symbolic? Also, the nudity of the child was unacceptable in my opinion.
@@josephdockemeyer6782 It's been so long since I saw that movie I don't even remember the ending. I do know it was largely based on a true story though. They were going to make prostitution illegal in New Orleans and a photographer went to a brothel to photograph the girls before they closed it down. Some of the photographs he took were online, (I don't know if they still are).
If the ending is at a train station, that might represent the prostitutes leaving after prostitution was made illegal.
Here is a link to probably more information about Ernest J. Bellocq than you ever wanted. One website says the movie "Pretty Baby" was fiction, but certainly a lot of it was based on fact--americansuburbx.com/2011/02/e-j-bellocq-the-last-days-of-ernest-j-bellocq.html
The good ol' days. It's incredibly depressing to pass by what used to be Storyville to-day, and what is now a ghetto housing project.
i think they just tore them down.
Jay Brooklyn ~ What is there now?
They tore them down to build new ones. It's an endless cycle.
Qliphothic Swamptree well write to your legislators to increase minimum wages so people can afford to make a living without the need for as you say “ghetto projects “ or whatever
@@lexishendrix1145 fuck minimum wage and anybody dumb enough to try and raise families on it...
"Pretty Baby"
1:10-1:15 So interesting what streets are in each quadrant
Its amazing how an historic video about a neighborhood that no longer exist stirs up race relations. The neighborhood was tore down to build a place for whites but as the population grew and the city expanded the public housing transitioned to a place for blacks. Although this area has seen many faces the legacy of sex alcohol gambling and violence continued to keep a tight hold on the area.
The Iberville was built for Soldiers returning from war to give them a place to live while they found jobs and saved money to get a place of their own. It was meant to be used for a short term of 6-12 months while you established yourself. After all soldiers had moved out the Government made it a low income apartment house with the same purpose in mind . To have a temporary place to live while you saved money to move on. At first that is how it was operated you paid rent based on your income. Unfortunately some people took advantage and had decades of family member's living there never properly using this opportunity as a stepping stone to move up.
It was always low income/affordable housing it was the same concept the ppl just changed.🤦🏾♂️
Its affordable housing for whites and projects once blax moved in?
@@DavidTrufant the bottom line is it was meant for short term use as a stepping stone to move up and out for all races . It was never meant to become housing for decades of the same family .
@@leelastoma5809 I agree but you make it seem like its just that easy and everyone had that option. If white folk only employing white folk and banks not giving blacks a loan, then what do you expect to happen? The only reason most white folk move out was because blacks moved in. I know 3 white families who lived in the St.Thomas until they tore it down. So what you're saying is based on ignorance and bias, thats my point.
Even though New Orleans has a stabilized economy with oil seafood and tourism no one whether white or black really makes much money here.
Im here now and those gentrifiers who moved in are moving out by the thousands every year because the cost of living is high, especially insurance (property and auto). But if you have a Slidell address the price of insurance drop for automobiles by the 100's. So its the shady government to blame not the people. The people you are speaking of is the same people who families cudnt afford to evacuate and died in those projects during Katrina. So if they cudnt afford to evacuate how could they afford to move out the projects? Be considerate underatanding and sensitive. Have you ever asked anyone in those projects why they never left? Well theres a few here in the comment section! And this is not me playing victim because we are all victims of capitalism.
@@DavidTrufant My family lived in Iberville. So YES I KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT . Funny how you quickly assumed I was just talking to talk. I’m not white either . My parents used it as the stepping stone it was meant to be . My Mother was a waitress all her life . My Father did labor work in a shipyard . They had goals and they had dreams for their family . They did not play poor me nor use a race card . You know dang well the slackers I’m talking about they come in all colors . Full of excuses and always blaming their lack of accomplishments on others . It’s always someone’s else’s fault . That’s a big pile of baloney. Victims of Capitalism?? What the hell!!! do you even know what you are saying . Capitalism is was let’s people invent/ create things and make money . From P Diddy , Beyoncé etc... selling you rap music . You made them rich. To cell phones ,tablets , cars , refrigerators, televisions, Mc Donald’s etc...If you don’t like capitalism then get rid of all those things . Go live in a cave. If you ever in your life sold something you participated in capitalism. . Please educate yourself on what Capitalism means you seem to have the true definition twisted . SAD 😞
@@leelastoma5809 doesnt really matter what complexion you are your comment was ignorant and biased. Just because you lived there doesnt mean you know what was going on in others home. Like I said before I agree but you make it seem as if this was an easy task to accomplish. Be considerate be kind be sensitive; have a good day
Got it "vice" switched in the city from sex to murder
Charles Jacques they even had cops being paid hit people. (Yep. One was a woman.)
Agreed!
........."Interview with The Vampire" sent me here.............
id would love to see it
I have an aunt who live in iberville area what was once Storyville.
Based on what is written here, is this where the concept of Westworld came from? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-light_district
Applies to a lot in life! :)
Dr. Long says, "Um" 47 times.....Ph.D. needs to take a Public Speaking class?
you counted?..
um
Brothels, casinos and speakeasies to projects....yup, this country is doomed...
times-picayune dies june 12, 2012 under the Obama regime of fascism.
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The Constitution of the United States always applies here.
/watch?v=LRh1I6tJa24&feature=plcp
Just Wish Them Well.
Must everything a trump supporter says be rooted in absolute stupidity? The newspaper industry has become obsolete you Birdbrain. That has absolutely nothing to do with whose in the white house or who is not in the White House. Could you people be any dumber? Newspapers have become obsolete, by the time you read what's in the newspaper you already know the information that's in it. If you want to blame 24-hour access to news on Barack Obama, then go right ahead stupid ass. How do you allow yourself to be so stupid?