STORYVILLE

Storyville - The red-light district of New Orleans, bounded by Canal and Basin streets, where prostitution and Jazz flourished from 1896 to 1917. 

Storyville got its name from Alderman Sidney Story, who was responsible for a measure setting aside a section of the French Quarter as an area where prostitution was to be tolerated but not legalized. 

Here there were "cribs" for the low-paying customers and the most elegant of bordellos for the affluent and mighty. 

Storyville was shut down during World War I, apparently as a reaction to a wartime wave of supermorality, sending the Jazz musicians up the Mississippi River in search of employment and spreading Jazz to cities on the river and to Chicago and New York.

Arnold Shaw - American Dictionary of Pop / Rock.

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Fowl Ball: An impressive flock of local and international showbirds gathered recently for an impromptu musical performance at the James D. Martin Wildlife Park in Gadsden, AL. You are cordially invited to watch.