The French Market Inn in New Orleans at 509 Decatur Street. The place is still there and the trolleys you see on the right side of the photo still run, even though they are much newer now. At this time, New Orleans was by far the biggest and most important city in the South because it is on the Mississippi river and Gulf of Mexico, and it was the main port. At the time, only New York City had a bigger port. Times have changed since.