Canal Street at Night, New Orleans, LA

Canal Street, so named because in olden days a big drainage canal ran down its center, recently rebuilt at a cost of $3,500,000 is 170 feet wide, one of the widest central business thoroughfares in the world has sidewalks of terazzo marble and neutral grounds.  It marks the upper limits of the old city.

The above was noted on the back of this postcard, sent in 1939.