This building on the corner of Tulane Avenue and South Villere Street was no longer housing ambulances when Allison photographed it shortly before its demolition. Charity built a new ambulance station in the late 1930s and the old building had been serving as a garage for some time. Its replacement, the Dibert-Butterworth Building, still stands as does the structure shown to the left of the ambulance house in the photograph. Note also the streetcar at far right; buses (actually trackless trolleys) did not come to Tulane Avenue until 1951.

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