Derby Gisclair
@derbygisclair.bsky.social
New Orleans based published author, speaker, amateur photographer, and dilettante historian. #baseball #boxing #horseracing #steamboats #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history #quotes Sorry but no DMs, no crypto, no porn, no requests for money.
A Chinese food display at the Schwegmann’s Giant Supermarket on Airline Highway, taken in 1962 by Franck – Bertacci Photographers on behalf of the Gaugh Brokerage Company, distributors of La Choy canned Chinese food products. (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
January 4, 2026 at 11:10 PM
A Chinese food display at the Schwegmann’s Giant Supermarket on Airline Highway, taken in 1962 by Franck – Bertacci Photographers on behalf of the Gaugh Brokerage Company, distributors of La Choy canned Chinese food products. (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
City Park in New Orleans offers visitors many different fountains spread out around its 1,300-acre footprint. In 1956, this modest fountain was installed in March at the edge of the park where City Park Avenue meets North Carrollton Avenue. (continued)
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January 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM
City Park in New Orleans offers visitors many different fountains spread out around its 1,300-acre footprint. In 1956, this modest fountain was installed in March at the edge of the park where City Park Avenue meets North Carrollton Avenue. (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
An advertisement from the 1881 Southern Business Guide for the Crescent City Hame and Chain Works, located at 31 Peters and 6 Clinton Streets in New Orleans, owned and operated by Joseph K. Boland, obviously a talented artisan. Prior to today, ... (continued)
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January 3, 2026 at 10:12 PM
An advertisement from the 1881 Southern Business Guide for the Crescent City Hame and Chain Works, located at 31 Peters and 6 Clinton Streets in New Orleans, owned and operated by Joseph K. Boland, obviously a talented artisan. Prior to today, ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
"When did Marilyn have the time or inclination to compose and implement this Monroe Doctrine that I'm just hearing about."
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
"When did Marilyn have the time or inclination to compose and implement this Monroe Doctrine that I'm just hearing about."
January 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Beginning in 1850 when Dr. H.T. Lykes moved from South Carolina to Brooksville, Florida, to establish a large cattle ranch. Thirty years later he was exporting cattle to Cuba and in 1895 moved the company to Tampa. Captain James McKay built a ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
January 3, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Beginning in 1850 when Dr. H.T. Lykes moved from South Carolina to Brooksville, Florida, to establish a large cattle ranch. Thirty years later he was exporting cattle to Cuba and in 1895 moved the company to Tampa. Captain James McKay built a ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
Much has been made of the animosity between the French Creoles and the Americans in New Orleans and the massive “dividing line,” otherwise known as Canal Street, between the French Quarter and the American Sector. One of the lingering bits of word ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
January 2, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Much has been made of the animosity between the French Creoles and the Americans in New Orleans and the massive “dividing line,” otherwise known as Canal Street, between the French Quarter and the American Sector. One of the lingering bits of word ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
The building at 339 Royal Street at Conti Street is often mentioned as the old Gaz Bank. Designed by Barthelemy Lafon as a storehouse for Vincent Rillieuz and built in 1800 by Don Pablo Lanusse, a senior judge at the Cabildo, during the twilight ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
January 2, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The building at 339 Royal Street at Conti Street is often mentioned as the old Gaz Bank. Designed by Barthelemy Lafon as a storehouse for Vincent Rillieuz and built in 1800 by Don Pablo Lanusse, a senior judge at the Cabildo, during the twilight ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
This photograph of the offices of the Western Electric Corporation at 601 South Peters Street at the corner of Lafayette Street was taken by Covert Photographers around 1925. Originally in New Orleans as the Western Electric Telegraph Company ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
January 2, 2026 at 12:23 AM
This photograph of the offices of the Western Electric Corporation at 601 South Peters Street at the corner of Lafayette Street was taken by Covert Photographers around 1925. Originally in New Orleans as the Western Electric Telegraph Company ... (continued)
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#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
~ Robert Byrne
#quotes #pool #billiards
January 1, 2026 at 11:20 AM
"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
~ Robert Byrne
#quotes #pool #billiards
A black and white in-text engraving of an improved mixer for making molasses invented by John B. Meyers of 475 Josephine Street in New Orleans. His invention was formally recognized by U.S. Patent No. 165,853, issued July 20, 1875. (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
January 1, 2026 at 11:13 AM
A black and white in-text engraving of an improved mixer for making molasses invented by John B. Meyers of 475 Josephine Street in New Orleans. His invention was formally recognized by U.S. Patent No. 165,853, issued July 20, 1875. (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
Tomorrow marks the start of a new year -- 2026 by the Gregorian calendar, which in all fairness should then read MMXXVI. But different cultures mark the passage of time differently. (continued)
#HappyNewYear
#HappyNewYear
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Tomorrow marks the start of a new year -- 2026 by the Gregorian calendar, which in all fairness should then read MMXXVI. But different cultures mark the passage of time differently. (continued)
#HappyNewYear
#HappyNewYear
December 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
~ Ogden Nash
#nolasky #nola #neworleans #HappyNewYear
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
~ Ogden Nash
#nolasky #nola #neworleans #HappyNewYear
December 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
~ Ogden Nash
#nolasky #nola #neworleans #HappyNewYear
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
~ Ogden Nash
#nolasky #nola #neworleans #HappyNewYear
The Bottom of the Cup was established in 1929 as a tea room by Wilhelmina Mullen and Irene Mullen Grizzard as a place where ladies might gather to enjoy a cup of tea and perhaps some conversation. Soon after it opened, tea-leaf readers began to ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
December 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Bottom of the Cup was established in 1929 as a tea room by Wilhelmina Mullen and Irene Mullen Grizzard as a place where ladies might gather to enjoy a cup of tea and perhaps some conversation. Soon after it opened, tea-leaf readers began to ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
“What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar” is a famous line uttered in 1915 by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall from Indiana, lamenting the demise of the five-cent cigar as a casualty of rising tobacco prices during World War One. (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
“What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar” is a famous line uttered in 1915 by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall from Indiana, lamenting the demise of the five-cent cigar as a casualty of rising tobacco prices during World War One. (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
Watching a Brown Pelican soar is witnessing "awkward elegance," a masterclass in energy efficient flight. Sometimes soaring far above the water's surface, sometimes gliding inches above the waves ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #birds #natrue #photography
December 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Watching a Brown Pelican soar is witnessing "awkward elegance," a masterclass in energy efficient flight. Sometimes soaring far above the water's surface, sometimes gliding inches above the waves ... (continued)
#nolasky #nola #neworleans #birds #natrue #photography
#nolasky #nola #neworleans #birds #natrue #photography
This engraving dates from 1854 and depicts one of the American batteries protected by stacks and stacks of cotton bales. Not entirely foolproof as evidenced by the casualty on the right. So important was the battle of January 8, 1815, that it was ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
December 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This engraving dates from 1854 and depicts one of the American batteries protected by stacks and stacks of cotton bales. Not entirely foolproof as evidenced by the casualty on the right. So important was the battle of January 8, 1815, that it was ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
December 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
For Map Monday we have a 1752 map of Louisiana, published by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville in Paris, engraver G. de la Haye from drawings and observations dating back to 1732, everything west of the Mississippi River ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
December 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
For Map Monday we have a 1752 map of Louisiana, published by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville in Paris, engraver G. de la Haye from drawings and observations dating back to 1732, everything west of the Mississippi River ... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
“Baseball isn't just a game. It's the smell of popcorn drifting in the air, the sight of bugs buzzing near the stadium lights, the roughness of the dirt beneath your cleats. It's the anticipation building in your chest as the anthem plays, the adrenaline rush when ..." (continued)
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#quotes #baseball
December 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The New Orleans Opera House Association’s elaborate and spectacular production of Richard Strauss’ opera “Salome” was performed in November of 1949. The work almost did not open as i... (continued)
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#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
December 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The New Orleans Opera House Association’s elaborate and spectacular production of Richard Strauss’ opera “Salome” was performed in November of 1949. The work almost did not open as i... (continued)
#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history