Backatown

Poster for a Kid Ory concert, 1959.

One-stop service. 1950. Via Duke.

Fats Domino, 1958. Whole Lotta Lovin.

Tommy Ridgely, “Jam Up”. 1954. This one cooks.

More Earl King! I’d say he was the best, but that doesn’t leave room for a whole bunch of other people. So how about: he was one of the greats. Hendrix did a nice job with this tune on Electric Ladyland.

A rainy evening, 1951. Source unknown.

George Lewis & His New Orleans Music - Willie the Weeper. Recorded in 1950.

George Lewis, 1950. Photo by Stanley Kubrick.

Ad for Miller Bros Jewelry, 838 Canal St., in the early 1950s. Via.

Fortier High student John Kennedy Toole spoke at the Kiwanis club in 1953.

(Via Tulane University Louisiana Research Collection)