Poydras Market
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The Poydras Market also known as the Poydras Street Market, was an early market
area in New Orleans, Louisiana
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It was located on Poydras Street across from Maylie's Restaurant. The area was frequented by prominent families in the area, who kept it quite busy.
On 6 February 1897, twelve of these families submitted a petition to the Public Order Committee to oppose the annexation of Poydras and Lafayette streets into the New Orleans city limits. They argued that the streets were the primary "avenues to the Poydras Market by which all the families residing back of town walk to make their daily market and other purchases." Long argues that they really wanted to keep the market and their neighborhoods segregated from the less respectable denizens of New Orleans proper.
The former Poydras Market area is now part of the New Orleans Central Business District
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Marketplace
A marketplace is the space, actual, virtual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. The term is also used in a trademark law context to denote the actual consumer environment, ie. the 'real world' in which products and services are provided and consumed.-Marketplaces and street markets:A...
area in New Orleans, Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
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It was located on Poydras Street across from Maylie's Restaurant. The area was frequented by prominent families in the area, who kept it quite busy.
On 6 February 1897, twelve of these families submitted a petition to the Public Order Committee to oppose the annexation of Poydras and Lafayette streets into the New Orleans city limits. They argued that the streets were the primary "avenues to the Poydras Market by which all the families residing back of town walk to make their daily market and other purchases." Long argues that they really wanted to keep the market and their neighborhoods segregated from the less respectable denizens of New Orleans proper.
The former Poydras Market area is now part of the New Orleans Central Business District
New Orleans Central Business District
The Central Business District is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the French Quarter/CBD Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Iberville, Decatur and Canal Streets to the north, the Mississippi River to the east, the New Orleans Morial...
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