The Royal Street Gallery is the conjectural name for a location from Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean.
Description[]
This is a large building located on Royal Street in the French Quarters of New Orleans, Louisiana. The back of the building accessed the Blue Lagoon from its adjacent dock of Lafitte's Landing.
Features[]
Exterior[]
Blue Bayou Side[]
- Lafitte's Landing: This is a dock behind the building, named for historic Louisiana pirate Jean Lafitte who was famous for smuggling through New Orleans' bayous.
New Orleans Square Side[]
- Entrance:
- Fountain: This is a fountain with a plaque depicting two mermaids and the skull pirate Captain X.
Interior[]
1st Floor[]
- Conservatory: A large room with a conservatory, portraits of the estate's presumed owners, portraits of ships engaged in fights, and a miniature sailing-ship. This room also had stairs leading to the second floor.
- Foyer: The first-floor entry was large with a water-feature in the middle, and murals depicting pirates: Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Hector Barbossa, Sir Henry Mainwaring, Ned Low, Mlle. Greenwell, Sir Francis Verney, Captain Charles Gibbs, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. This room has also been known to have framed artwork of pirates, and a framed map of the Isla Tesoro. Located in the centre of the chamber is a sandbar with a brick canal twisting around it, allowing boats from the bayou to pass through and around to the landing. The sandbar itself has scenery of a Jolly Roger, buried treasure-chests, map of Isla Tesoro and shovel with the parrot of pirate, "Mr. Cottton" perched atop.
2nd Floor[]
- Gallery:
History[]
Background[]
Development history[]
Appearances[]
Pirates of the Caribbean[]
Trivia[]
- The upper levels have the initials of Walt and Roy Disney within the designs of their fences.
- In Tokyo Disneyland, the entrance is sometimes decorated with different Jolly Rogers. Amongst these flags are that of Captain Barbossa (historically attributed to Calico Jack), one historically attributed to Christopher Moody (and which was seen flown in the pirate war against the East India Trading Company), and the flag used by Eduardo Villanueva (historically affiliated with Ned Low and Blackbeard).
- In Tokyo Disneyland, concept-artwork of Marc Davis is framed on the walls.[1]
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