- The New Projects
- Xes
- Effects on the Middle Class
- Don’t Bring Your Kids Here
- Corruption
- The Effects on Communities
- 9th Ward
- Celia’s Story
- What Happened in the Hospitals
Category Archives: US travel
Katrina Tour: Xes
Katrina: The New Projects
During my recent trip to New Orleans, I spent a night with my cousin Celia. The next morning she took me on a private Katrina tour, recounting her own experiences as well as what happened then and is happening now in our ancestral city. I’ve divided approximately 30 minutes of footage into topical segments, and will be publishing them one at a time. There’s a lot of information to absorb here. Much of it makes me very sad.
Note: Celia speaks of her “transplant kids”. She is a nurse, and at the time worked with children awaiting kidney transplants.
San Francisco Tram
San Francisco’s F line, which runs the tourist route from the Embarcadero along Market Street to the Castro, uses historical tram cars bought mostly from other cities and restored. I love riding these beautiful old things, and taking photos and video inside them. This particular car was used in San Francisco itself in the 1960s,
The Great Glass Elevator
The newly-reopened Hyatt Regency New Orleans features a glass elevator. Of course I took video.