Canal Street Looking West

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CANAL STREET, LOOKING WEST, ORLEANS, LA. 26

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15470 Canal Street, 170 feet wide, one of the widest central business thoroughfares in the world, got its name from the fact that in olden days, a big drainage canal ran down the center of it, and it marked the upper limits of the old city two cen- turies ago, with the ramparts along the edge of the canal and forts as terminals, Со -PUB. BY NEW ORLEANS NEWS CO., NEW ORLEANS. LA Orleans America's Most Interesting City