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On August 15, 1923 the city playgrounds sanctioned a girl s river swim from the foot of St. Joseph Street to the Algiers ferry. Eleven year old Katherine O Brien makes the mile and a half in about 20 minutes. |
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| In 1923 R. Thomas McDermott and his father J. Ray McDermott win a contract to build 50 wooden drilling rigs for an east Texas wildcatter. J. Ray McDermott & Co. is reorganized and incorporated in 1946 in Delaware. The company s headquarters move to New Orleans in 1964 | Most of the streetcar vehicles in use today are 1923 and 1924 models by the Perley Thomas Car Company. | Industrial Canal in New Orleans is opened. | Built in 1923, the depot in De Quincy, Calcasieu Parish is an outstanding example of Mission Revival architecture, and is one of the most architecturally significant railroad depots in the state. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. | MUSIC Louis Armstrong makes his first recording as a member of King Olivers Band |
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