1960 Press Photo Boatriders pick up shells along Highway 10 roadbed, Paris Road

Boatriders become beachcombers and pick up shells, thousands of years old, being pumped in with sand for section of Highway 10 roadbed near Paris road. - Men building for the future are dredging up the past in the form of shells raised from the depths of a desolate marshland. The shells, which rumble through pipes and roar out into an evergrowing roadbed, tell what a section of New Orleans was like thousands of years ago. There is a new highway through New Orleans East, now, but only boats can ride it. It is a channel, approximately 300 feet wide and a minimum of nine feet deep, which already has been "mucked out," Now it is being filled with sand which will form the roadbed of Highway 10. The sand is being pumped from borrow pits.

Photo is dated 1960.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.