NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana nickname)
“NOLA” stands for “New Orleans, LA.” NOLA became popular (or, rather, semi-official) when modern two-letter abbreviated codes for the states and territories originated in October 1963, with “LA” officially representing “Louisiana.”
“NOLA” has been cited in print since at least 1905. “Charles A. Favrot and Louis A. Livaudais to Nola Company, Ltd.” was printed in The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), on April 26, 1905. “CHARTERS FILED IN APRIL (...) Nola Realty Company, Ltd., $35,000” was published in the The Daily Picayune on May 16, 1905. “NOLA Screening Co., 630 Poydras” was printed in an August 11, 1905 newspaper. “Nola Co., Ltd., 413 Hennen Building” was printed in a September 17, 1905 newspaper.
The popular website address of “NOLA.com” was trademarked with a date of first use from December 21, 2000.
Other New Orleans nicknames include “America’s Most Interesting City,” “Baghdad-on-the-Bayou,” “Big Crescent,” “Big Easy,” “Big Greasy,” “Big Sleazy,” “Birthplace of Jazz,” “Chocolate City,” “Chopper City,” “City of a Million Dreams,” “City of Yes,” “City That Care Forgot,” “City That Forgot to Care,” “Convention City,” “Crawfish Town,” “Creole City,” “Crescent City,” “Gateway of the Mississippi Valley,” “Gumbo City,” “Hollywood South,” “Jump City,” “Mardi Gras City,” “Metropolis of the South,” “N’Awlins,” “Nerlins,” “No Orleans” (after Hurricane Katrina), “Northernmost Banana Republic,” “Northernmost Caribbean City,” “Old Swampy,” “Paris of America, “ “Queen City,” “Saint City,” “Silicon Bayou,” “Silicon Swamp” and “Sweet Lady Gumbo.”
Wikipedia: New Orleans
New Orleans (/nuː ˈɔːrlᵻnz, -ˈɔːrli.ənz, -ɔːrˈliːnz/, or /ˈnɔːrlᵻnz/; French: La Nouvelle-Orléans [la nuvɛlɔʁleɑ̃] ( listen)) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. The New Orleans metropolitan area (New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area) had a population of 1,167,764 in 2010 and was the 46th largest in the United States. The New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area, a larger trading area, had a 2010 population of 1,452,502.
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Nickname(s): The Crescent City; The Big Easy; The City That Care Forgot; Nawlins; NOLA
26 April 1905, The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), “Modern Flats Near Audubon Section,” pg. 7, col. 7:
Charles A. Favrot and Louis A. Livaudais to Nola Company, Ltd., 2 lots, Napoleon Avenue, Jena, South Franklin and South Liberty, $2,400.
16 May 1905, The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), pg. 5, col. 5:
CHARTERS FILED IN APRIL.
Over Five Million the Month’s Investment in New Concerns.
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... Nola Realty Company, Ltd., $35,000; ...
11 August 1905, The Times-Democrat (New Orleans, LA), pg. 9, col. 5 classified ad:
Cisterns screened; guaranteed to meet the requirements of the law; estimates on quantities. NOLA Screening Co., 630 Poydras. Phone Main 2775—L.
24 August 1905, New Orleans (LA) Item, pg. 9, col. 1 classified ad:
CISTERNS SCREENED
According to local requirements. NOLA Screening Co., 630 Poydras. Phone Main 2775-L
17 September 1905, The Times-Democrat (New Orleans, LA), pg. 12, col. 2 classified ad:
TWO new, modern houses, one block from Carrollton avenue. Apply Nola Co., Ltd., 413 Hennen Building.
24 September 1905, The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), “Real Estate,” pg. 10, col. 2 classified ad:
TWO desirable lots on Napoleon Avenue.
NOLA CO., LTD.,
413 Hennen Building
10 December 1908, The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), pg. 5, col. 6 ad:
NOLA READY RUBBER ROOFING
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NEW ORLEANS ROOFING AND METAL WORKS
2 January 1910, The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), pg. 11, col. 6 ad:
... Nola Metal Shingles, ...
NEW ORLEANS ROOFING AND METAL WORKS
10 April 1910, The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), pg. 1, col. 1:
Phone, write or call, and let us show you our NOLA Brand of Dixie Product.
NEW ORLEANS ROOFING AND METAL WORKS,
SCOTT, ST. LOUIS AND TOULOUSE STREETS
Google Books
Sweet’s Catalogue of Building Construction for the Year 1911
New York, NY: The Architectural Record Co.
1911
Pg. 431:
NEW ORLEANS ROOFING & METAL WORKS
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NOLA METAL SHINGLES
NOLA HIP SHINGLES
30 April 1915, Variety (Los Angeles, CA), “New Orleans,” pg. 21, col. 4:
Fritz von Heel has been engaged to play juvenile roles with the Pathe-Nola Film Co. of this city.
3 August 1919, New Orleans (LA) Item, pg. 12, col. 1 ad:
CAFE-NOLA
(BRULO)
“CAFE (Coffee)
NOLA” (New Orleans, La.)
The Hotel Grunewald Caterers
16 May 1922, Houston (TX) Post, “Marine News,” pg. 13, col. 6:
VESSELS IN PORT
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Nola, New Orleans
OCLC WorldCat record
Tantalizing Tilly : (jazz inspiring—jazz melody)
Author: Alma S Melton; Lo W Triay
Publisher: New Orleans (2209 Banks St., New Orleans) : NOLA Music Pub. Co., ©1925.
Edition/Format: Musical score : English
OCLC WorldCat record
Nav-sta-Nola pelican.
Publisher: New Orleans, La. : U.S. Naval Station, 1941-1942.
Edition/Format: Journal, magazine : Periodical : National government publication : English
Subjects
U.S. Naval Station (New Orleans, La.)—Periodicals.
Navy-yards and naval stations—Louisiana—New Orleans—Periodicals.
OCLC WorldCat record
NOLA, New Orleans pop-up map : all top attractions, fun & easy to read, fully indexed, 3D buildings, refolds easily
Author: Stephan Van Dam; VanDam (Firm); Rand McNally and Company.
Publisher: [Chicago, IL] : Rand McNally, ©2008.
Edition/Format: Map : English
PRI
Is something lost when we call New Orleans NOLA?
The World in Words
August 24, 2015 · 12:30 PM EDT
By Nina Feldman
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Mark Romig is the president and CEO of the New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Corporation, the official promotion agency for the city. He says they decided to go with the phrase, “Follow Your NOLA” for their 2013 tourism campaign because it appeals to a new generation of visitors, looking for a different kind of tourism experience:
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While its popularity might be new, the term itself is not. Nola first started to appear in early 1900s. There was a NOLA film company, a fraternal organization, a sheet metal company, a theater on St. Claude Ave in 1950.
Tulane-based cultural geographer Rich Campanella says the use of NOLA grew in the 1960s. That’s when zip codes caught on, making it easier to mail letters. Campanella speculates that people didn’t want to write out the whole name of the city and state and with zip codes, they didn’t have to.
Thirty years later, the local paper jumped in, adopting nola.com as its website URL.
NOLA.com
The story behind the first NOLA
Updated on August 5, 2016 at 10:02 AM Posted on August 5, 2016 at 10:01 AM
(Photo caption—ed.) An ad for the NOLA Screening Co. from the summer of 1905.
BY JAMES KARST, NOLA.COM
The Times-Picayune
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The name appeared in the local press for the first time in the summer of 1905, the year of the last yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans. That August, the city of New Orleans passed an ordinance that mandated screens, mesh or even cheesecloth on top of cisterns, in addition to a layer of oil on the surface of the water, in an effort to prevent the spread of yellow fever by preventing mosquitoes from breeding.
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