[Dixielandjazz] South Rampart Street

[Harry Callaghan]

Since this has obviously turned into National Geographic, it might interest
many of you that there is a little known street in Manhattan that lies
between Madison and Park Avenues. It runs north and south between 42nd and
47th Streets, right alongside Grand Central Station and it is called
Vanderbilt Avenue.

And then, there is the little known York Avenue which lies between First
Avenue and the East River

I remember back in the late 50s, another friend and I were carrying a third
who was drunk up the Avenue of the Americas.  We stopped to ask a cop where
6th Avenue was and without blinking an eye, simply replied "You're on it".
We might as well have just been walking a dog.

Now that's the place.so nice, they named it twice, New York, New York.......

Musical content?  I am now singing a chorus of "42nd Street" even as I speak
to you.

Tides,
HC

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>wrote:

> Robert Ringwald wrote [in part]:
> > I could swear that I was told that there was no South Rampart Street in
> New Orleans.  Perhaps at the time the song was titled, there wasn't and a
> street has been named "South" since then?
>
> Dear Bob - and other respondents to this thread,
> In 'Esquire's 1946 Jazz Book'  there is a fold out map of Storyville, New
> Orleans in 1900-1915 by Paul Eduard Miller and Richard M Jones (dated 1944)
> highlighting the famous restaurants, tonks, saloons, stores, etc.
> Rampart Street is shown from Julia (to the south) to St Louis (north end)
> and crossing Canal Street.
> Very kind regards,
> Bill.
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