This is an New Orleans Historic parking meter. Before cars you had to have a place to tie up your horse. The French Quarter has few garages but there would have had to have been some stables nearby. No wonder the gardens grew well in this area of town, what did they do with the by-products of your mount in the past. Most of these must be for the tourist but its a nice touch. I would assume that you would also have a valet service for the stable, but without cell phones you may just have a wakeup call as the church bells were rung at the St. Louis Catherdal in Jackson Square around the corner. It was not always Jackson Square, because Andrew Jackson was not here until 1814.
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