[miss marmelstein]

How sad. Algiers is a beautiful place. I’ve walked around it to admire its quaint architectural beauty many times.

[Charles Martel]

Ever notice the old courthouse that faces the river? When I was a child, we had an oil painting that my grandfather had done from memory of the New Orleans riverfront. Sternwheeler steamboats nosed-in to the near bank, being loaded with goods to go upriver. It looked like a scene from "Showboat". On the far side of the river, granddad had included a building with two squared-off towers.

One day I had occasion to go to that courthouse and walked out on a river-facing upstairs balcony - and realized that I was seeing a reverse image of that old painting. I was standing in that odd, distant building.

IIRC, part of the building used to be a jail, as well. Iron barred windows set high up in the walls of what are now the restrooms.

[mumblypeg]

You’ve probably walked around Algiers Point, near the ferry and Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras float factory. I know some people down there who share their Victorian mansion with a charming lady ghost. The larger Algiers area is a mix of blah suburbs and slums.