"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." ~ Earl Weaver #quotes #baseball

The terminus of the New Basin Canal captured in a 1922 aerial photo by Charles Franck (HNOC). From the turning basin along South Rampart Street all the way to the lake were lumberyards and warehouses that processed the freight. (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

The Third Thursday Lecture Series Tonight's the night! Join us at 7:00pm at the East Bank Regional Library for our next presentation -- Gamblers Afloat. Historian and author Derby Gisclair will speak on the rough and tumble world of steamboat gamblers. #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

"Look at Bobby Richardson – he doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t chew, he doesn’t stay out late, and he still can’t hit .250." ~ Casey Stengel #quotes #baseball

Washington Avenue was still a dirt road, as were both Chestnut and Camp Streets which flanked the palatial home known both as the home of James Robb and John Burnside, shown here in 1858 as photographed by Jay Dearborne Edwards. (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

“No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.” ~ Cus D'Amato #quotes #boxing

The Steers-Morse Compress and the Batture Cotton Press were located at Girod and Front Streets, with their business offices at 41 Carondelet Street. It was estimated that in 1884 there were as many as ... (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

The Third Thursday Lecture Series Please join us on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at 7:00pm at the East Bank Regional Library for our next presentation -- "Gamblers Afloat." The speaker will be historian and author Derby Gisclair. We hope to see you there! #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

"Every time I sign a ball, and there have been thousands, I thank my lucky stars that I wasn’t born Coveseski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh." ~ Mel Ott #quotes #baseball

An enlarged portion of the 1852 Smith Brothers panorama of New Orleans showing (left to right) St. Patrick's Church, First Presbyterian at Lafayette Square, City Hall (Gallier Hall), the St. Charles Hotel, Christ Episcopal Church, ... (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

A detail from the 1910 map of New Orleans from The Creole Guide showing the outline of three racetracks. On the left are the outlines of the long-closed Metairie Course (upper) and the Oakland Park (lower). (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

Happy Anniversary What better way to celebrate that with a copy of Baseball at Tulane University, also celebrating its 20th anniversary. Autographed copies are still available at Octavia Books and unsigned copies may be found online through Amazon or Barnes & Noble. #baseball #neworleans

A star pitcher for Willow Junior High, McDonogh 35 High and Xavier University in New Orleans, Walter Wright later became an outstanding professional pitcher and outfielder in the Negro Leagues with the New Orleans Athletics, St. Raymond Crescent Stars and Black Pelicans during the period of 1930-40.

“A no-hitter secures a pitcher’s spot on an elite yet diverse list that embraces Hall of Famers, struggling journeymen, and wide-eyed rookies.” ~ Dirk Lammers #quotes #baseball

Despite the popular axiom, at one time there really was such a thing as a “free lunch.” As chronicled in William H. Coleman’s 1885 “Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans,” the free lunch was instituted at the barroom of the old ... (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

"A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify." ~ Robert Byrne #quotes #pool #billiards

An 1893 view down St. Charles Avenue with the St. Charles Hotel in the background. Perhaps one of the most popular vantage points for early photographers. Two-way traffic on St. Charles at the time. On the left are ... (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

“It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.” ~ Andre Agassi #quotes #tennis

A view of the Third District as it looked in 1867 through the lens of Theodore Lilienthal, this also taken from the roof of the Marianite Sisters of the Holy Cross looking upriver toward the French Quarter. (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

“I’ll see you and raise you.” Well, we hope to see you at our next presentation on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at 7:00pm at the East Bank Regional Library when historian and author Derby Gisclair will talk about Gamblers Afloat -- the world of gamblers on Mississippi steamboats.

The Third Thursday Lecture Series Please male plans to join us for the next presentation in the Third Thursday Lecture Series: Gamblers Afloat on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at 7:00pm at the East Bank Regional Library at 4747 West Napoleon Avenue in Metairie.

"Successful managing is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits." ~ Casey Stengel #quotes #baseball

Another American-born daughter of New Orleans was Virginie Amélie Avegno who was born in the Crescent City on January 29, 1859. The daughter of Creole aristocracy Anatole Placide Avegno and Marie Virginie de Ternant of Parlange Plantation. (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” ~ Bertha Calloway #quotes #sailing

A view from the 200-block of Royal Street looking back towards Canal Street by an unattributed photographer. On the left is the Hotel Monteleone with the old Walgreen’s just behind it on the right on the corner of Royal and Iberville Streets. (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

"I always thought the record would stand until it was broken." ~ Yogi Berra #quotes #baseball

Established in 1840, Antoine’s is the oldest family owned restaurant in the country when 18-year old Antoine Alciatore opened his restaurant on St. Louis Street. Since that time, locals, celebrities, politicians, and thousands of ... (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

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"Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches." ~ Jim Bouton #quotes #baseball

Born in 1866 in New Orleans and educated in the public schools of the city, Maurice Picheloup was appointed as the Superintendent of the House of Detention on January 1, 1905, and remained in that position at the time this portrait was made in 1916. (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

America has always been a nation of immigrants, from the first the earliest Spanish explorers I the mid-1560s straight through to the present day, people have flocked to this country. (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

You asked for it and we’re back this month with another all-new presentation: Gamblers Afloat. Historian and author Derby Gisclair will speak on the often-misunderstood world of riverboat gambling and the men (and women) who engaged in The Devil’s Toolkit. (continued)

“There are many things you can successfully fake in business…but a good golf swing isn’t one of them.” ~ Bobby Darnell #quotes #golf

The second floor of Begue's Exchange on the corner of Decatur and Madison Streets had a large communal dining table where Madame Begue served a Bohemian breakfast starting at 10:00am, often called the “butcher's breakfast” because ... (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

"I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, I’m surprised I’m not diabetic; but I did have him off the canvas once… when he stepped over my body to leave the ring." ~ Jake LaMotta #quotes #boxing

The Harper’s Weekly of June 14, 1862, reported on one of the “outrages committed by General Butler at New Orleans, which have elicited the indignation of General Beauregard and his army is the feeding of the starving people of New Orleans...” ... (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

The main dining room of the Hotel Denechaud shown in 1907. Located on the corner of Poydras Street and Baronne Street, the Hotel Denechaud opened in 1907 and was renamed the Hotel DeSoto and then the Le Pavillion Hotel in the early 1970s. (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

"If I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up." ~ Leo Durocher #quotes #baseball

An etching by artist Morris Henry Hobbs from 1939 of the iconic Madame John’s Legacy at 632 Dumaine Street between Royal and Chartres Streets. The building owes its name to author George Washington Cable in his story ... (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

Map Monday A Civil War era map of New Orleans showing population centers, railroad lines, canals and bayous, swamps, and fortifications. Union territory is in green and Confederate territory is in red. #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

"Are you sure you want to go in there?"

“A good swimmer is one who knows how to swim through the river of life without drowning.” ~ Michael Bassey Johnson #quotes #swimming

The Half-Way House was so called because it was halfway from City Hall (now Gallier Hall) to the resorts at West End. It was located along the New Basin Canal and Metairie Road. There was a bascule bridge that could be raised to allow ... (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

"The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says 'You mean third base?'" ~ Henny Youngman

The term "sewing machine" was an all-inclusive term for machines that could perform stitching, darning, embroidery, etching, and applique work. The firm of Wheeler & Wilson, shown here in 1881 at their location at 103 Canal Street between ... (continued ) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

“It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.” ~ Sterling Moss #quotes #AutoRacing

The corner of St. Charles Avenue at the former Tivoli Circle has undergone several significant changes over the years. The property was originally the location of the home of Colonel Augustus Hugh May and in 1890 was replaced by a German music hall ...(continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

“...it takes exactly eighteen shots tae polish off a fifth o' a bottle o' Scotch, thus, a game o' golf equates tae eighteen holes...” ~ Steve Alten #quotes #golf

Born in Frankfort, Prussia, in 1829, Theodore Lilienthal was educated in Germany and began his professional life in the silk factories of Berlin. During the political upheaval in Europe of 1848 he joined the German army and served in the Second ... (continued) #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history

In 1861 the firm of Nicholson & Company operated their granite and marble business at 19 St. Charles Street (Avenue). The looming spire of Christ Church Episcopal, built in 1837, dominates the skyline from its location on Canal Street. From Gardner's 1861 New Orleans City Directory.