Bayou Shorts- Stellar! A Streetcar's Famed Attire™ Print

Pattern released in 2015

Recalling a more leisurely era that still exists in New Orleans, textile artist Kathy Schorr savors the grace on steel wheels that is the New Orleans streetcar; the oldest continuously operated electric railway line in America (1893) — and certainly the most charismatic. Visualizing their olive and burgundy forms emerging from a sapphire mist dotted with aqua palms and laced with saffron glints of the original (1958) Greater New Orleans Bridge - the farthest downstream bridge over the Mississippi River — Schorr transports our gaze to futures past.

It’s the journey and the destination that matters. So arrive first class in Stellar! comfort wearing our wash ‘n wear rayon Streetcar’s Famed Attire and enjoy the ride, To facilitate boarding we fashioned nickel-tin buttons inspired by the 1919 tokens issued by the original New Orleans Railway & Light Co. Our streetcars were named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Was the Register aware that they move?