Desire Street (Streetcar Named Desire)

Tennessee Williams rode the Desire streetcar line while living at 632 St. Peter Street in the French Quarter. The line ran from 1920 to 1948 along Desire Street in the Bywater. That commute gave him the title for *A Streetcar Named Desire* in 1947. The play premiered on Broadway with Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Williams called New Orleans the last frontier of Bohemia — he wrote much of his early work here. The streetcar was replaced by a bus in 1948. Desire Street still runs from the river toward the Industrial Canal. The line is gone. The name endures.