Mardi Gras beads.
StoryCorps is a project organized by NPR and the Library of Congress in which they record orals histories in different parts of the country. They encourage people to bring in their friends and relatives - parents and grandparents, for example - and they help the people conduct and record an interview for posterity. You can read more about it at storycorps.net.
This is the Cornstalk Fence Hotel in the French Quarter.
The architecture is closely controlled in certain historic areas, like the French Quarter. Anyone making changes to a building in one of these areas must get approval before the work can proceed.
I'd love to have one of these certificates in a frame on my wall.
This was on Bourbon Street.
Bourbon Street - the country's only pedestrian mall devoted to alcohol.
A Hurricane is a highly alcoholic drink. There's also a place on Bourbon Street that sells a drink called the Hand Grenade.
I find this odd - I can understand someone selling a fully-equipped restaurant, but renting it?
