New Orleans: 1935

If that is St. Louis Cathedral, then this, being the "northwestern" (upper in N.O. parlance) side, would be St. Peter Street. St. Peter Street extended far beyond North Rampart until the Treme neighborhood was raped in the construction of Armstrong Park in the early 70s, cutting the street for several blocks. The fenced off area to the right is the Carondelet (or Old Basin) Canal, which was no longer navigable by 1935 and filled in in 1938.

If you look at a map of the French Quarter and draw a line behind St. Louis Cathedral, you get St. Ann Street.

Eddie, you may be right. I was thinking it looked like Tchoup, near the Garden District, where all the old docks and warehouses are.

Fence on right would be for the Southern RR and for the GM&O Railroads. Street would be Toulouse, maybe. Those houses were still there at the time of the storm in 2005.

Looks like the St. Louis Cathedral in the distance.