When Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans on August 29, the storm destroyed the building that housed the Karnofsky Tailor Shop, run by a family of Jewish immigrants, who had a warm relationship with jazz icon Louis Armstrong, pictured here on August 30, 1954.
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Hurricane Ida destroyed a historic building that was a second home to jazz great Louis Armstrong
A piece of New Orleans' jazz history is now a pile of rubble. When Hurricane Ida hit the city Sunday, the storm knocked out power, flattened homes and turned streets into rivers. It also destroyed an old brick building downtown on South Rampart Street, just a few blocks from the French Quarter.
