New Orleans: Crescent of Darkness- A Threads of Damocles "A" Universe


	Back O' Town Back o Town, also known at the time as the Battlefield or the "colored red light district," is a tough area; Louis Armstrong grew up in this area. Back o' Town includes illicit gambling and prostitution houses as well as residences. The adjacent South Rampart Street corridor contained more respectable African American businesses and legitimate places of entertainment. Back o' Town has a high concentration of saloons, social halls, dance clubs, and vaudeville theaters where early jazz is played. These range from low-down dives, such as the Red Onion, to a middle-class ballroom like the Parisian Garden room in the Pythian Temple building. The Red Onion, the Pythian Temple Building, the Odd Fellows hall, the Masonic dance hall, the Iroquois Theater, the Union Sons hall and the Astoria Hotel and Ballroom, are located here.

Back O' Town

Back o Town, also known at the time as the Battlefield or the "colored red light district," is a tough area; Louis Armstrong grew up in this area. Back o' Town includes illicit gambling and prostitution houses as well as residences. The adjacent South Rampart Street corridor contained more respectable African American businesses and legitimate places of entertainment.

Back o' Town has a high concentration of saloons, social halls, dance clubs, and vaudeville theaters where early jazz is played. These range from low-down dives, such as the Red Onion, to a middle-class ballroom like the Parisian Garden room in the Pythian Temple building. The Red Onion, the Pythian Temple Building, the Odd Fellows hall, the Masonic dance hall, the Iroquois Theater, the Union Sons hall and the Astoria Hotel and Ballroom, are located here.