Winterfest is this Friday and Saturday. Parking will be banned on Middle, Palmer, & Shattuck streets from 10am Friday through Saturday evening. Expect those streets to be closed to traffic entirely once the festival starts at 6:00pm Friday.

For anyone fascinated by Canal Place history, a pdf of some of the complex’s original marketing materials is available. This marketing folder turned up in old office records and I have to assume it was from very early on, before the first developer went bankrupt and the complex was sold off in pieces, and before things got bad enough for the units to go for far less than the prices mentioned.