06/03/2026
May 30, 1948
Yes, Stella, there was a Streetcar Named Desire, and here she is making her last run today in 1948. That's conductor Henry Lacour in the photo doing the honors on Car No. 982's last run. The Desire Line ran through the French Quarter from Canal Street and down Bourbon Street to Desire Street in Ninth Ward, before looping back to Canal along Royal Street. “The big thing about Desire was that it ran the length of the French Quarter,” explains historian and author Ed Branley. “It was the streetcar that people who lived in the quarter used to go places.” Along the route, the streetcar would pass wihin half a block of what was at the time the residence of Tennessee Williams.