"Canal Street, New Orleans, La."

ID: 5118 ~ Source: Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2016811136/.  ~ Creator: Detroit Publishing Co., Publisher. ~ Date: 1910.
This file appears in: Exchange Alley at Canal Street
"Canal Street, New Orleans, La."
This file appears in: Exchange Alley at Canal Street

By Charles Chamberlain
The intersection of Exchange Alley and Canal Street reflects jazz's early roots in youth culture and community, as well as Canal Street prominence as a commercial corridor. On December 13, 1915, Chicago café owner Harry James discovered a…