This photograph was taken at Venus Street, looking toward Franklin Avenue. Some cars have to pick their way through traffic jams. These sturdy machines maneuver the mess at the foot of Canal Street back in the early 1950s. City traffic engineers have smoothed out some of the kinks at City Park Avenue, but the intersection can still be snarled during rush hour. This 1940 Buick, photographed next to the Criminal Courts Building, was involved in a negligent homicide accident on Burma Road in March, 1945.
Some cars find unique ways to avoid traffic jams.
This undated photo shows a Pontiac station wagon, modified into a Hy-Rail inspection car, gliding along the tracks of the Public Belt Railroad at Canal Street, ca. Well, not quite, but for a number of years, Volkswagens entered the country through the port of New Orleans on their way to being markets all along the Gulf Coast. In 1962 alone, sixty vessels brought more than 23,000 of the German vehicles into the port. Some cars find spacious parking spaces to rest in. Some cars will carry just about anybody just about anywhere.