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Elmwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, within the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. The population was 4,635 at the 2010 census, [2] and 5,649 in 2020. [3] Elmwood was part of neighboring Jefferson's census area from 1960 to 1990. The ZIP Code serving Elmwood is 70123.
This store was incorporated in 1938 and was New Orleans' first African American-owned full-service grocery store. The Circle Food Store provided groceries—"It stocked local staple foods and was even known to carry wild game" [5] —a pharmacy, a doctor, a dentist, a chiropractor, check cashing and banking, and a place to buy school uniforms ...
Almost all of LA 48 follows the historic Jefferson Highway auto trail designated in 1916 and was once the main traffic route from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and points north in the state. In 1921, this became State Route 1 in the pre-1955 Louisiana highway system and the original alignment of US 61 in 1926.
Arabella Station, is a historic building on Magazine Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1996. It is now a Whole Foods for Uptown New Orleans. It has also been known as Arabella Carbarn and as Upper Magazine Station/Carbarn. It was a carbarn for storage and parking of streetcars.
Langenstein's was founded in New Orleans in 1922 by Michael Langenstein and his two sons, George Langenstein and Richard Langenstein, with the original store located at 1300 Arabella Street in Uptown New Orleans. [3] In 1954 the store moved to a larger building at 1330 Arabella Street. [4]
They were third in local market share behind two supermarket chains based outside of the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area. [3] [15] [16] [17] In 1995, Schwegmann Brothers Giant Supermarkets acquired the 28 grocery stores in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area of the National Canal Villere Chain, then owned by the National Tea Company. The ...
Magazine Street is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. Like Tchoupitoulas Street , St. Charles Avenue , and Claiborne Avenue , it follows the curving course of the Mississippi River . The street took its name from an ammunition magazine located in this vicinity during the 18th-century colonial period.
At the end of Elysian Fields where it meets the lake. Lakeshore Drive runs along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. It is a recreational park space along the lake used for sun bathing, running, swimming (Swimming is allowed only by the Seabrook Bridge and you can only swim to a certain point), fishing and crabbing on the seawall steps, and leisurely walks, etc.