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The Crescent City Connection and the New Orleans skyline. The Crescent City Connection (CCC), formerly the Greater New Orleans (GNO) Bridge, is a pair of cantilever bridges that carry U.S. Highway 90 Business (US 90 Bus.) over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. They are tied as the fifth-longest cantilever bridges ...
The United States, which had acquired possession from France in 1803, adopted the French name and anglicized it to New Orleans. New Orleans has several nicknames, including these: Crescent City, alluding to the course of the Lower Mississippi River around and through the city. [36]
Plaza Tower (for a time dubbed Crescent City Towers and Crescent City Residences in a failed proposed redevelopment scheme) is a 45-story, 531-foot (162 m) skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana, designed in the modern style by Leonard R. Spangenberg, Jr. & Associates.
"Crescent City", a song about New Orleans by Lucinda Williams from her 1988 self-titled album Crescent City Radio , an Internet radio station based in New Orleans, Louisiana Crescent City , a hyper-opera by composer Anne LeBaron , premiered in Los Angeles 2012
The last time there were as many trombones in a movie as there are in “Take Me to the River: New Orleans,” Harold Hill was probably leading a parade. The ongoing vitalization of the Crescent ...
The Queen and Crescent Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Southern Railway in the United States of America.It was operated over a historic route that had been established in the late 1800s called the Queen and Crescent Route, which referred to Cincinnati as the "Queen City" and New Orleans as the "Crescent City".
New Orleans natives may be slightly disappointed to find that a movie titled “Crescent City” — long a popular nickname for the storied Louisiana metropolis — actually is set in and around ...
The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1496804860. Haas, Edward F. (1988). Political Leadership in a Southern City: New Orleans in the Progressive Era, 1896–1902. New Orleans: McGinty Publications. ISBN 978-0940231047. Haskins, James (1973). Pinckney Benton Stewart ...