In New Orleans, A Streetcar Returns

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  01.03.08 | 11:31 AM ET

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A piece of pre-Katrina New Orleans staged a quiet return last month, to the thrill of storm-weary residents and tourists. The St. Charles Avenue streetcar is once again ferrying passengers from the French Quarter to the Garden District. Reports the New York Times: “The streetcar has represented something else besides the connections through time and space: the city’s living room, a privileged spot for tentative social encounters across lines of race, class and nationality, in a place not otherwise given to them.”

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Photo by dbking via Flickr, (Creative Commons).

Tags: North America, United States, Louisiana, New Orleans

Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications.


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John 01.03.08 | 8:33 PM ET

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