There's No Law Against Imagination [Port of New Orleans, Inner harbor navigation Canal, Industrial Canal]
New Orleans Industrial Canal area bounded by Downman Road, Gentilly Road, Industrial Canal, Lakefront; Robert S. Maestri, Sidney L. Ferry, Port of New Orleans, Inner Harbor Navigation Canal. Plan for real estate and waterway development for area on east side of Industrial Canal from Gentilly Road to Lake Pontcgartrain.
[Ferry, Sidney L.?]
[New Orleans, La.]
Original letter found RG 69, Box 1, folder 22.
This map is attached to a letter writen to New Orleans Mayor Robert S. Maestri, by Sidney L. Ferry, dated December 19, 1949. In his letter to Maestri, Ferry expressed his disappointment that Maestri's eleven point platform did not include the Industrial Canal. Ferry supported the implementation of a 1928 law authorizing the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans to "organize and build industrial districts in connection with the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal." Ferry asked Maestri what he would do to "correct the impediment, or fully exploit and develop the possibilities of the industrial canal."