Desire Streetcar
This file appears in: The Desire Line: Streetcar Loss & Rebirth in New Orleans
Desire streetcar traveling upriver along Bourbon Street, circa late 1940s.
Courtesy of Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library.
This file appears in: The Desire Line: Streetcar Loss & Rebirth in New Orleans
The Desire Line: Streetcar Loss & Rebirth in New Orleans
The Desire streetcar line gained widespread acclaim when Tennessee Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," was published in 1947. By that time, New Orleanians were quite familiar with the Desire line--many of them probably taking…