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TommyMacLuckie
10-16-2011, 10:46 AM
The New Orleans Times-Picayune has been running historical parts of the history of New Orleans and the newspaper and 10-15-11's bit was on Sam Zemurray, United Fruit and how New Orleans was the number one importer of bananas:

1910: New Orleans goes bananas | NOLA.com (http://www.nola.com/175years/index.ssf/2011/10/1910_new_orleans_goes_bananas.html)

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TommyMacLuckie
10-16-2011, 11:03 AM
At 1:57 in there is something particularly interesting but overall this is interesting: a documentary of New Orleans from 1940.

1940 New Orleans Travelogue - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyf0K28r8So)

coast crab
10-16-2011, 08:48 PM
Cool. In my gallery I have some old postcards of the banana docks here in Mobile. Oh, btw, hope you enjoy the fire ants. They came into the USA though the Port of Mobile - in a banana shipment!!

TommyMacLuckie
10-18-2011, 07:58 AM
Which is strange. Were bananas grown commercially in that part of South America at that time?

Of course, now the 'crazy hairy ants' are coming - and they're from the same region. However, they don't like the cold so they won't make it on the northern Gulf Coast at all. They're in Texas and SW Louisiana right now.