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Street Slang
Uptown side / downtown side / lakeside / riverside
· phrase · nola
NOLA's cardinal directions — locals don't use N/S/E/W because the river bends.
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New Orleans throws out compass directions because the Mississippi bends so hard the city is a crescent — north/south/east/west stops meaning anything useful. Instead, every local navigates by four reference points: uptown (upriver, towards Audubon Park), downtown (downriver, towards the Quarter and the Bywater), lakeside (towards Lake Pontchartrain) and riverside (towards the Mississippi). Directions and even side-of-the-street get given this way: 'the lakeside corner of Magazine and Napoleon', 'the downtown side of the neutral ground'.
“Park on the riverside of St. Charles and walk to the uptown corner — bar's right there.”
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Uptown side / downtown side / lakeside / riverside In A Sentence
Park on the riverside of St. Charles and walk to the uptown corner — bar's right there.
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