[Dixielandjazz] South Rampart Street

[Stephen G Barbone]

Dear Bill H and Bob Ringwald:

If you go to the below site, you will see a reference to South Rampart  
Street. Circa 1930s


http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/LWP&CISOPTR=3443&CISOBOX=1&REC=17

It describes a photograph of store windows on Rampart Street at night  
in New Orleans in the 1930s. The Description of the photo is:

"B/W photo, 1930s, Store windows on SOUTH RAMPART STREET (caps mine)  
in New Orleans at night. Sign in front read 'Fink's Loan Office'."

Date 193-

The photo, by Errol Barkemeyer, is a jpeg and obviously a pawn shop  
prominently featuring some musical instruments. Thus it would seem  
that there was a South Rampart Street when the tune of the same name  
was composed in 1937.

Also, the below from a musical blog describing the "Darktown Sandals  
which I think, but am not sure, was formed circa 1935

  In an interview with Marcel Joly, “Frog” Joseph declared that the  
“Darktown Scandals” band (the Cotton Pickers?) was organized in New  
Orleans, and the rehearsals took place at the Cotton Club, on the  
corner of South Rampart and Erato streets, uptown. Besides Joseph and  
Ogden, the band included Manuel Crusto, trumpet; Richard Gray, alto;  
Nathaniel Purnell, piano.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband