When I was in 4th grade my family moved to Seattle. Come Mardi Gras time I was shocked and dismayed to find out that to the rest of the world Fat Tuesday was just another Tuesday. We moved back a year later. I was so happy. I truly loved Mardi Gras.
I'd really worry if New Orleans was EVER normal!!! Heaven forbid---that's what's so wonderful about it, and why, even though I've been gone for nearly 30 years, it will ALWAYS be my home town. People ask us "where're you from?" and we always answer "New Orleans...I live in Georgia but I am FROM New Orleans!" And, by the way, the Elephant at the Zoo when I was little was named ITEMA...she was a wonderful elephant, in every way. Poor thing died just days before her 40th birthday, in 1960.
as a child i remember passing by the court house on Tulane and Broad street and rocking to the song in back of our el camino with sirens balzing from the police station down the street at NOPD headquartrers, good old 80's.
Very nice clip! A pleasure to watch and love the inclusion of "Pocky Way." Just got back from Jazz and Heritage, so I'm totally digging this! Not normally into the exhibition of wild, captive animals, but the New Orleans Zoo has the right idea. Big, beautiful habitats for the critters. Cool excursion for visitors who need a break from the debauchery in the quarters.
@pstrevino South Louisiana is like that. My husband and I worked for LSU for four years, and of all the places I've lived in my life, that was the best. I miss it too.
You know it, whenever possible, every couple years. Brought my wife's ashes down 2 years ago, gave her to the River on Mardi Gras Day, I know she loved it. See you sometime soon
New Orleanian by birth, but moved when i was two so Alabamian by the hand of satan apparently. Each time I visit my fever for this city grows. I wanna go hoooome T.T
Check out an old creole French song called Eh La Bas by Billie and DeDe Pierce [it's on youtube] and you'll see where the Meters got the idea for this song.
@NikkouDaisuke Saw your channel name and thought you might be surprised to hear that one cold night in a Hiroshima bar call Mac's the whole place was dancing to this same song....have you heard of Mac's ?
