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Legendary New Orleans jazz site destroyed by Hurricane Ida

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Louis Armstrong’s “second home” because the iconic musician spent much of his childhood in the family home above. Aged seven, he was hired by the Karnofskys to work on their junk wagon, blowing a toy horn to get locals’ attention, while in the evenings he would help deliver coal.The family is said to have encouraged him to explore his love of music and loaned him the money to buy his first cornet.

The store is considered so integral to Armstrong’s career that it was listed on the National Register of Historic Impact. Despite that, not much had been done in the years since it was sold to preserve it.The Karnofsky Tailor Shop, a site of historic importance to the birth of jazz, collapsed during Hurricane Ida last night.

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