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2 unusual facts about Basin Street


Basin Street Blues

The Basin Street of the title refers to the main street of Storyville, the notorious red-light district of the early 20th-century New Orleans, just north of the French Quarter.

Bird Cage Theatre

It gained a reputation as one of the wildest places in the country, prompting The New York Times to report in 1882 that "the Bird Cage Theatre is the wildest, wickedest night spot between Basin Street and the Barbary Coast".


Bourbon Street

This changed in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when the Storyville Red Light district was constructed on Basin Street adjacent to the French Quarter .


see also

Basin Street Records

The musicians of Basin Street Records represent a variety of styles of music, although most play some variety of jazz such as: Dixieland/New Orleans jazz, Latin jazz, New Orleans brass band music, as well as contemporary and modern jazz.

Basin Street Revue

Basin Street Revue is a 1956 American film directed by Joseph Kohn and Leonard Reed.