View of Gallatin Street, 1936
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This photograph of Gallatin Street was taken from the US Mint side. At the far end of the street you can see the sheltered market structure that expanded to become the blocks-long French Market known today.
Louisiana State Museum
This file appears in: The Demise of Gallatin Street
The Demise of Gallatin Street
In 1924, Times-Picayune journalist Lyle Saxon provided a description of Gallatin Street as it appeared in the 1920s, calling it “deserted, forgotten, given over to warehouses and storage rooms of…