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January 1922
Writer Sherwood Anderson arrives in the French Quarter in January and declares that the city should be the winter home of every American artist. By February he is ensconced at 708 Royal Street and enjoying a prohibition Mardi Gras. In March he writes an article for the Double Dealer. He leaves for New York, but will return in 1924 with his third wife. He works on Many Marriages and Horses and Men, both of which are published the next year. |
February 1922
Anna Pavlova performs at the Lafayette Theatre on February 13, 1922. |
March 1922
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May 1922
The Arts and Crafts Club is formed in May. It will become a focal point for artists, writers, musicians and art patrons |
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November 1922
Samuel Douglas McEnery is again a candidate for governor on the pro-lottery ticket but loses to Foster. |
December 1922
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| Louis Armstrong, after playing with the Tuxedo Brass Band is called to Chicago by Joe King Oliver to play with the Creole Jazz Band. | William Spratling leaves Auburn University to become an associate professor at the Tulane School of Architecture. He chooses to live in the French Quarter and becomes involved with the Arts and Crafts Club and the artistic and literary community of New Orleans. A young William Faulkner later shared his apartment on Pirates Alley. Spratling buys ten large jugs of absinthe from a bootlegger and shared it with his friends in great quantities. | New Orleans Public Service or NOPSI is created after a complete reorganization of all street railways and power companies in New Orleans. The rail network in New Orleans reaches its peak with 225 miles of track, but ridership begins to decline as more autos and bus services appear on the streets. | History of New Orleans written by John Smith Kendall. | Po’ Boy sandwich invented during streetcar strike at Martin’s Restaurant at Ursulines and North Peters. | |||||||
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