“Parades may be viewed from the street, balconies, windows of homes and business houses, or from specially constructed tiers a story or so high. Each view has its advantage, but to mingle with the joyous crowd of the street is to feel the real spirit of the Carnival. Many await the parade on St. Charles and Canal Streets, for it is on these streets that the kings meet their queens: Momus and Comus at the Louisiana Club, 636 Gravier Street; Hermes at the City Hall, 543 St. Charles Street; Proteus at the Boston Club, 824 Canal Street. Although the varicolored lights of Canal Street give the parade a certain splendor, St. Charles Avenue is the better place to see a night parade. The avenue, with its beautiful homes and wide neutral ground, is not so highly lighted as Canal, and stars overhead wink back to the twinkling lights. Red-robed Negroes carry gasoline torches, calcium burners, and star-sparkling flares.
“Soon after noon, when there is a night parade, ‘pop’ stands, hot dog counters, peanut wagons, cotton candy sheds, and souvenir boards sprout up along the streets like mushrooms after a spring rain. Cars, whose tops will be used as reviewing stands, are parked on the side streets near St. Charles Avenue. At five o’clock spectators begin to appear, and the crowd thickens so fast that one must walk in the streets. On the night of the parade all traffic along the way is rerouted to prevent interference. Children form human chains to whip through the crowd, and there is much laughter and noise.”
“California: A Guide to the Golden State” https://archive.org/details/californiaguidet00federich/
“Missouri: A Guide to the ‘Show Me’ State” https://archive.org/details/missouriaguide00writmiss
“New Orleans City Guide” https://archive.org/details/neworleanscitygu00federich
From page 178 of the New Orleans book:
“Parades may be viewed from the street, balconies, windows of homes and business houses, or from specially constructed tiers a story or so high. Each view has its advantage, but to mingle with the joyous crowd of the street is to feel the real spirit of the Carnival. Many await the parade on St. Charles and Canal Streets, for it is on these streets that the kings meet their queens: Momus and Comus at the Louisiana Club, 636 Gravier Street; Hermes at the City Hall, 543 St. Charles Street; Proteus at the Boston Club, 824 Canal Street. Although the varicolored lights of Canal Street give the parade a certain splendor, St. Charles Avenue is the better place to see a night parade. The avenue, with its beautiful homes and wide neutral ground, is not so highly lighted as Canal, and stars overhead wink back to the twinkling lights. Red-robed Negroes carry gasoline torches, calcium burners, and star-sparkling flares.
“Soon after noon, when there is a night parade, ‘pop’ stands, hot dog counters, peanut wagons, cotton candy sheds, and souvenir boards sprout up along the streets like mushrooms after a spring rain. Cars, whose tops will be used as reviewing stands, are parked on the side streets near St. Charles Avenue. At five o’clock spectators begin to appear, and the crowd thickens so fast that one must walk in the streets. On the night of the parade all traffic along the way is rerouted to prevent interference. Children form human chains to whip through the crowd, and there is much laughter and noise.”
https://archive.org/details/neworleanscitygu00federich/page/...
A bibliography, with links to more books in the series, is here:
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