The ordinary pleasures of everyday New Orleans
Mardi Gras day, 1967-style
Filed: About Town, Photos @ 2:40pm on June 1, 2010 One comment! :| Tags: 1967, Bourbon Street, ebay, Mardi Gras, Nostalgia
The latest bunch of eBay photos have a few really interesting shots, though most are of your typical floats and such- a couple in from Seattle for Mardi Gras.
There are two that caught my attention, though- the first is just how different Bourbon Street was… hats, coats, kerchiefs… totally civilized. Shockingly so, really:
The other was this one:
I’d love to know where this was, who they were, what the celebration was. And mostly I’d like to know how a couple of tourists who, as far as I can tell, did not stray off Bourbon and Canal got to something like this.
And then I’d like to go, too.
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May 1st, 2011 at 11:30 am
I was living in New Orleans at Mrs. Walters rooming house on the corner of Camp and Julia in 1967 after having fallen victim to Faulkner and Tennessee Williams in high school. I was twenty years old and worked as a dishwasher at the Roosevelt Hotel. I would often dine at the Camp Inn which was located across from my rooming house at the north- east corner of Camp and Julia. I spent a lot of time at “Cody’s” a country western bar on St. Charles Ave. operated by a woman named Cody. Do you know if any photographs exist of the Camp Inn or photos of the corner of Camp and Julia from that era?
Thank you for helping to keep alive the spirit and history of this grand old city.