This January 2004 file photo shows the Poland Avenue wharf in Bywater. Officials with the Port of New Orleans have long talked about converting the wharf into a new cruise terminal.

POLAND The House on Szucha Avenue The old national anthem, now played along with the Internationale, still proclaimed: "Poland is not yet lost." But many a Pole was beginning to wonder.

Four Warner brothers, founders of the Hollywood studio Warner Bros., have had their names embedded in the Avenue of Stars in the city of Łódź, central Poland.