Brian Altobello

Tweets on US history, fitness, baseball, civilized drinking, & other indulgences.

[Marco @marcorasi1960]

Full moon over Pirates Alley, New Orleans

[Kaare Johnson @KaareJohnson]

What a great New Orleans success story. #FreretStreet between Jefferson Avenue and Napoleon. The street was basically dead 15 years ago. About five businesses. Now there’s dozens and dozens. Maybe 30 businesses. Vibrant. Lots of peeps walking 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ 🚶 An amazing turnaround.

[Thomas Jamison @ThomasJsmison]

@MarkJacob16 @sandibachom How could anyone ever think these people might possibly be fascists?

[Louisiana Book Festival @LABookFest]

Save the date, y'all! We are excited to bring back a live, in-person #LABookFest22 this fall! More information coming soon🤩

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

https://t.co/dYISBPDoj4

[Louisiana Book Festival @LABookFest]

Save the date, y'all! We are excited to bring back a live, in-person #LABookFest22 this fall! More information coming soon🤩

[David Nola @DavidMora]

Pretty post shower scene in the French Quarter today. ⚜️☔️ #NewOrleans #OnlyLouisiana

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

New Orleans born Edgar Bouligny--1st US casualty of WWI. Wounded 4x, flew with the Lafayette Escadrille. Read about him:

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

George Bush hitting the Babe for an autograph...

[Richard Campanella @nolacampanella]

Canal Street during the 1895 blizzard (looking into the Carondelet intersection, where stood one of a number of steel light towers).

[American Queen Voyages @AQVoyages]

Welcome, partners, to American Queen Voyages™. 🍾 Experience the mighty American Rivers to the Great Lakes & Ocean, and Expedition voyages to the wilds of Alaska. We’re embarking on voyages of discovery. See you there. #DiscoveryRunsDeep #AmericanQueenVoyages

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

President McKinley addresses a crowd from the Cabildo's 2nd floor in Apr, 1901--just a few months before his assassination. #USHistory #NOLA #POTUS45

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

Where FDR sat when he had a cerebral hemorrhage, posing for a portrait 4-'45. Warm Springs, GA. He was moved to his bedroom where he was pronounced dead 2 hrs later.

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

@kentrahan @dls_athletics @DLSnola @DLSStudents @CCSdaily @CCSprep I watched Allen hit the first home run ever at Kirsch Rooney. He was small but very powerful.....

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

Whiskey using Washington’s original recipe and18th-century methods--grinding of grain in Washington’s water-powered gristmill, fermenting in wooden mash tubs, and distilling in copper pot stills heated by wood fires. #whiskey #history #potus

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

https://t.co/CePwabgxrR Pre-order available now!!

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

Inside & outside the wagon which took John Brown to the gallows in Charles Town, WV where he was hanged--5 miles from Harpers Ferry.

[Emily Snyder Bandy @emsandems]

4⃣ WHISKEY, WOMEN, AND WAR: HOW THE GREAT WAR SHAPED JIM CROW NEW ORLEANS by Brian Altobello (@since_1775)

📕 An exciting and surprising history of the New Orleans home front during World War I

https://t.co/XevJGcwdPj

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

@MKeithHarris Not a complete bio, but The Splendid and the Vile (Larson) is absolutely brilliant--Churchill during the Blitz.

[Brian Altobello @since_1775]

French Quarter bar Peychaud’s takes a page, and name, from New Orleans cocktail history