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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

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Fun Fun!\r\nSubmitted by Anonymous on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 2:27am.\r\nMy gf is from up north and I dragged her to the festival not knowing what we were in store for being the first year. We got there early, listened to the…

Fun, Fun

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Martin Brothers…

November 18, 2007 \r\n12 noon - 6:00pm\r\nOak Street at South Carrollton\r\n\r\nThe first annual New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival was held on Sunday, November 18, 2007 from noon to 6:00pm.\r\n\r\nThe festival was…

November 2007 Po-Boy…

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1932 Poor Boy

The City Park Avenue Sandwich Shop was one of the longest surviving\r\n lunch places in the city. Located across the street from Delgado Community\r\n College, from 1931 until the mid-1990s it served traditional New\r\n…

City Park Avenue…

\r\nWe moved away from New Orleans to Chicago in 1964. Whenever we would\r\n return to see my Grandmother, the first place we had to stop was the\r\n restaurant at the foot of the bridge in Manchac and get an oyster…

Manchac, Oyster…

One of my favorite Po-Boy Shops (don\'t know if it\'s still here) is/was\r\n Adams Street Grocery. The other, now defunct, po-boy shop I liked was\r\n Street Car Sandwiches on S.Carrollton Avenue. These shops some of…

Adams Street Grocery

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