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Yep. I'd include parts of Mid-City as well as you can find some pretty large mansions along Canal and Esplanade and in Bayou St. John.
Ardsley Park looks pretty rough now. True?
I'm not sure if I could find an area similar to that in New Orleans.
Ardslely Park in Savannah? Hell to the no! It's the most exclusive residential district in Savannah proper ... the city's first streetcar suburb, grand old homes, wide streets, pocket parks ... between downtown and the Southside, south of Victory Drive and east of Abercorn. Great neighborhood.
Ardslely Park in Savannah? Hell to the no! It's the most exclusive residential district in Savannah proper ... the city's first streetcar suburb, grand old homes, wide streets, pocket parks ... between downtown and the Southside, south of Victory Drive and east of Abercorn. Great neighborhood.
I just looked at the streetview of Ardsley Park itself, and the homes around that small park. Maybe that's not the best view? http://goo.gl/maps/mkJFG
Around the 3:00 mark, the woman being interviewed has a classic Gullah accent although it's obvious (to me) that she tones it down a bit so as to be more understood by the interviewer. She's actually from the Hilton Head area. The Lowcountry, where the Gullah/Geechee accent and culture is present, actually stretches from the lower NC coast to the upper FL coast, but it's more concentrated in the stretch from Georgetown, SC to the Georgia Sea Islands. Some very rich culture there. I don't speak Gullah myself, but I can understand a lot of it if I listen carefully, as my paternal grandmother uses elements of it in her speech.
Is it just me or does the first man that's interviewed almost sound like he has a Boston (/Eastern New England) accent....
The way he says "here" and "ancestors" at 0:54, for example. And also words like "particularly", "growers", "before", and "acres" at around 1:40.
He speaks as though he grew up in South Carolina, so I wonder why his accent sounds maybe somewhat Bostonian...
Or maybe I'm just hearing things. I think that's a definite possibility, but the accent still seems strangely familiar....
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I've seen a couple posts in here refer to the Gullah/Geechee culture in Charleston, but in each post they failed to mention Savannah. Why? Doesn't it exist in Coastal Georgia too?
I've seen a couple posts in here refer to the Gullah/Geechee culture in Charleston, but in each post they failed to mention Savannah. Why? Doesn't it exist in Coastal Georgia too?
Mostly on the Georgia Sea Islands, not too much in Savannah itself.
Yeah I know. Alot of people just don't know the boundaries of Uptown/Downtown. Uptown starts at Canal St and actually includes the CBD. Uptown was the white side of the city and downtown (Quarter, Marigny, Treme, etc) were the Creole and black side. Originally Uptown was a separate city if I'm not mistaken and was pretty much were the money was from day one. So, as I see it, the money never really left New Orleans at all.
Uptown/Downtown was never divided by race. It was divided by language and heritage. Uptown was American/Anglo and African-American slaves. Downtown was French/Creole/Free African-Americans. Both sides had money but Uptown grew in power by the 20th century. It essentially resulted in 2 cities with 2 distinct cores (FQ and CBD). Side note: New Orleans used to actually have 3 different municipal governments (Uptown, French Quarter, and 3rd Municipality Bywater/Marigny).
These 3 cities are often compared to each other and referred to as the jewels of the south, etc. I live in one and have never been to the other 3 so I would like to know how do they really compare? Can they really be all that similar since they were settled by different people, with different backgrounds and beliefs?
How do people compare the Gullah with the Creoles/Crillo? I can see the Haitian immigrants, but the creole?
From the pictures, Charleston and New Orleans look a bit like the West Indies. Charleston, I might compare to Barbados or the Bahamas. New Orleans, it looks more like a splash between Havana and Port-au-Prince.
Savannah, on the other hand, stands about a bit. I think it looks more English and less like the tropics.
Uptown/Downtown was never divided by race. It was divided by language and heritage. Uptown was American/Anglo and African-American slaves. Downtown was French/Creole/Free African-Americans. Both sides had money but Uptown grew in power by the 20th century. It essentially resulted in 2 cities with 2 distinct cores (FQ and CBD). Side note: New Orleans used to actually have 3 different municipal governments (Uptown, French Quarter, and 3rd Municipality Bywater/Marigny).
I'd say I was pretty close. I didn't know that the Quarter and Bywater were separate, that's pretty strange actually.
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From the pictures, Charleston and New Orleans look a bit like the West Indies. Charleston, I might compare to Barbados or the Bahamas. New Orleans, it looks more like a splash between Havana and Port-au-Prince.
Savannah, on the other hand, stands about a bit. I think it looks more English and less like the tropics.
Yeah it always shocks me when people say New Orleans feels European. Everything about New Orleans reminds me more of the Caribbean than anything in Europe.
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