New Orleans 1963 archive footage

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA in 1963
It contains stock footage of New Orleans: a U.S. Army recruiting center sign, trams, cars and pedestrians downtown, men driving horse carriages, clubs in Bourbon Street, black sailors working on the President steamboat, passengers filming the port and downtown New Orleans from the deck of their ship, and more.
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[@Pete-lp5pw]

I’m 72 years old and I grew up in New Orleans and this video makes me so homesick. I joined the Marine Corps in 1970 and I served for 30 years and didn’t have the chance to go home very often. I retired in 2000 and my wife and I live in San Diego. I was heartbroken to see what happened to the city because of Katrina. I don’t have any family there anymore but I would like to back and EAT. Po’boys, oysters on half shell, crawfish, crab, and all the food cooked in a style that you only find in New Orleans.👍👍👍👍🥹🥹🥹🥹

[@whenmullet2674]

Where 'ya at? Thanks for serving. Grew up in Chilly Gentilly. A lot has changed, but the food is still unique and great.

[@Pete-lp5pw]

@@whenmullet2674 I lived in Gentilly !!!! I lived a few blocks from the lakefront off of Franklin Avenue and Robert E Lee Blvd on Eads Street.

[@whenmullet2674]

@@Pete-lp5pw I lived by Teddy's, ate at the Bakery, played pool at Slickey's, hung out at The Barrel and The Library, and when we got the munchies it was Taco Tico by the movie theatre. Good times Brah.

[@ebayerr]

@@Pete-lp5pw I saw the 1973 movie "Fantastic Planet" at the Robert E.Lee theater. I was 16 and just got my driver's license. I drove from Mississippi just to see the movie.

[@Vette89]

You’re always family here.

[@southernphunk]

I’ve lived in a few high rises and watching this video has me shook.. It’s so peaceful to see old New Orleans

[@truthseek3017]

So many trees and animals.

[@CreoleGoldenBoy]

Was Born and raised in New Orleans! Such a wonderful time. I was born in 1964 , In the Treme Neighborhood.

[@Karpie44]

Mafia 3 Vibes.

[@KeithshawnSmith]

Fr

[@Walvortei]

Thought the same

[@guineveregruntle6746]

New Orleans was grand in its day.

[@jamesr1703]

Still is in 2024. Some things never change. The French Quarter and surrounding areas have successfully fought off the wrecking ball ! Long live New Orleans !

[@zay57]

​@@jamesr1703Ignorant

[@rednekokie]

I moved to New Orleans to work in 1960. Seeing some of these scene brought back pleasant memories. I never rode on "The President" - but crossed the river daily on the bridge in the picture -- that's when it was only one span, and a second span wasn't built until I left there in 1969. I worked in Algiers, across the river from the French quarter, and there was a ferry which went from Canal Street across to Algiers, but I only took it once. Had a nice apartment on Royal Street in the quarter -- I remember rent, at that time was only $55.00 per month. it's at least 10 times that now. Quite a place, New Orleans -- nowdays, only a shadow of what it was back then, 60 years ago.

[@ThankYouJesusTheChrist]

Did they tear down some the old high rises in this footage? I’ve been there 20 years ago and it looked nothing like this.

[@JeanEDeaux]

@@ThankYouJesusTheChrist I believe this was at least a decade before the high rise boom on Poydras and the CBD, I believe almost everything along old Poydras was torn down to make way for the expansion, as well as large pieces of what was to become the modern CBD.

[@jamesr1703]

@@JeanEDeaux Sadly this area that you mentioned lost out to the wrecking ball.

[@jamesr1703]

$55/month for rent on Royal Street????? Even in 1960, that's hard to imagine. Rents on Royal Street in 2024 top out at $2k per month and that's for 650 square feet !

[@dangremillion]

I lived on Chartres St. that year before starting grad school. What a treat.

[@jgilc2691]

Thank you for sharing this wondeful video. Lifelong fond memories!

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@HarrysTrainsRBX]

Oh what a lovely video of New Bordeaux

[@ebayerr]

The cars. The clothes styles!

[@detritic]

So a couple of years before Betsy. Always fascinating to see how much of this still looks the same and has the same vibe.

[@jillconner5062]

Old world architecture lining the street right from the jump.

[@LordZontar]

That was the year I was born. Wharves lined the riverfront where the Riverwalk, Woldenberg Park and the Aquarium of the Americas now are and Jax was still a working brewery, the tallest building was the Hibernia bank tower, and the ITM Building, the Rivergate, the Superdome, and One Shell Square had yet to be built. The French Quarter was still largely a working class neighbourhood and the SS President was still a river excursion boat.

[@sirquacksly]

Back when New Orleans was a major city.

[@j.michaelboland8414]

This is a good video. It would have been a great video if the background music was more appropriate for New Orleans.

[@garyv2196]

Wow, no potholes!

[@susanletsch-dz5oq]

Miss these days!

[@Trigger-Warning]

I remember it all. My family moved to New Orleans in 1963. I was 4 years old! We left in '67. I wonder how much of it is still there.

[@LordZontar]

You'd still recognise much of the city but the new structures added since '67 would catch you off guard.

[@Emma-rr2ll]

my mom lived there when she was 2 in 1963

[@Nightmarigny]

French Quarter is mostly the same... Skyscrapers in the CBD would be mostly unfamiliar. The wharves are gone, replaced by the Moonwalk, which is lovely. Soon the remaining wharves in front of Esplanade will be demolished to connect Crescent Park in the Bywater all the way to the CBD, so we will have a continuous greenspace and pedestrian walkway on the river. The other major difference of course is that there are thousands of abandoned buildings due to Katrina - something that will likely never change. Even the Municipal Auditorium and some of the skyscrapers remain empty. Part of the Treme was demolished in the early 70s and the Louis Armstrong Park was built.

[@TheJayblaze3]

I wish I can find footage of Treme around this time before the Oaktrees was knocked down & the Highway Transportation Act was established. Basically evisceratîng black folks homes,black businesses etc.

[@maryettamoody5079]

Where did the time go

[@sadandalonearemysafewords2740]

Music goes hard

[@jimcarney7174]

Wow, this brings back memories, my brothers and I were all born in New Orleans and lived on the very edge of the lower 9th ward. My Mom would take us with her on the bus to Canal Street to shop for all of our clothes, shoes, etc; 1963 was the year I started 1st grade…. I can remember the city how it used to be…. The girl I dated through high school loved spaghetti & meatballs and every Friday night we’d go to Tony’s Spaghetti House just off Canal St. and every Saturday night we’d go to where the Riverwalk is now and catch the S.S. President and later the S.S. Admiral for a 4hr cruise down river for a night of dancing. Well, in mid ‘76 I joined the Navy, went overseas and by the time I got back to N. O. in the 80’s it was almost unrecognizable and has gone to hell in a handbag ever since. Now it’s the murder capitol of the world. What a shame.

[@Vette89]

About that time I found my way up the Hibernia bank dome. Lucky I wasn’t caught!

[@petemeinke7188]

there is a time traveler in the film their is a woman that looks to be talking on a cell phone in the beginning.

[@Trigger-Warning]

Listening to "transistor radio".

[@j.w.r3730]

​@@Trigger-Warningthey don't know what those were,lol All they know is a pellet in your ear makes you happy now,lol

[@ebayerr]

I saw that at the 1:12 mark.

[@Ozark_Bule]

Lee Harvey @ 1:12!

[@Nightmarigny]

Wow. You might be right. If this was taken in the summer of '63, he was indeed living here. Holy shit. Looks like him.

[@danielebrparish4271]

Kinda but if you play it at .25 speed you can see that it isn't him.

[@richie0408]

The spring and summer of '63 was when Lee Oswald was in New Orleans, pretending to be a Marxist, getting into very public fights with CIA-funded anti-Castro groups, and getting arrested and interviewed by the media. I had hoped by chance that they would show 544 Camp Street where Oswald pretended to maintain a New Orleans office for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

[@BrisLS1]

Me too, first thought in this video, this is where it all began, to begin to be the end of our beloved JFK. And that Bourbon street looks just like it did when I was there in 1999 and 2000. Thanks.

[@Nightmarigny]

It looks like he's actually in this video, around 1:12, as pointed out above. He was living here that summer.

[@richie0408]

@@Nightmarigny Strong resemblance, for sure

[@maryettamoody5079]

I remember so well year I graduated Angie high Angie La

[@kadecalibre9279]

Music isn't really reminiscent of the 60s though tbh

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

Even today, Canal street looks like Mafia front businesses.

[@roberthenleynola]

The music is WAYYYYY too aggressive.

[@woutermatthesius439]

But I liked the drums. Pity about the piano indeed.

[@thomasulleland2221]

L

[@ZZealot-y3u]

Um. Turn your volume down.

[@BrianJosephMorgan]

Silence would be preferable.

[@danielebrparish4271]

I am a fequent user of the mute button on my keyboard.

[@willieshepherd9364]

So cell phone been out 1:10 😂

[@nigellawson4000]

The music. God, no.

[@josephshulman6666]

Funny this video should pop up today as Lee Harvey Oswald lived in this city not that long before Dallas ?? !!!!!!!

[@taylorshaw]

Woman on cell phone at 1:16?

[@mickeyblueyes]

i know what it means...

[@derycktrahair8108]

Soprano Sax is in tune but sounds like a Kazoo. Were is underscore for Doco? Show-offs like that ruin it for the rest of us.

[@sammckinstry]

Shame the piano trio accompaniment is in the wrong genre. I've turned the sound down.

[@TJTHEFOOTBALLPROPHET]

It took 1963 before you started seeing black people in these videos. That's how racist New Orleans was, not the filmmaker, but New Orleans.

[@victorparker308]

Not just New Orleans. Visited back to New Orleans visting family many times growing up in the 1950s and 60s. Still occasionally visit today. Most American cities including Los Angeles where I was raised were just as racist and discriminatory as New Orleans in the 1950s and 60s. Segregation and racial violence was still rampant here in L.A. until the 1970s, and in many was still exist undercover in the so-called City of Angels.

[@Gobbersmack]

And then it went all downhill from there. Many such cases!

[@TheEmpireStrikes74]

The South in general hun..Not just New Orleans..This is. before the Civil Rights Act of 1964... Sad but true.

[@TheEmpireStrikes74]

@@Gobbersmack What a Racist prick you are..Take your opinion and shove it up your ass..B*tch..or just STFU in general...Old decrepit a**..

[@mailman2332]

This is True

[@KiraYamatofandeGundam]

Mafia lll

[@uk9530]

❤NEW ORLEANS

[@BrianJosephMorgan]

S

[@deltonwilliams2454]

Mafia III