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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:32:55 PM EDT
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D-Day Museum!!!!!!!!
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:33:14 PM EDT
[#2]
D-day museum
There's also, oh wait you're married 
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:33:36 PM EDT
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Sorry to break it to you , but I don't think that New Orleans is really a party town. You might be able to find a bake sale if you look hard enough. Maybe a Bed Bath and Beyond.
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:33:51 PM EDT
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D-Day museum is excellent. It's built in the old Higgins boat factory. I believe the Pacific Theater wing is now open. There's a decent Civil War museum across the street.
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:34:23 PM EDT
[#5]
Carry your CCW pistol if you live in a LA reciprocity state.
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:35:11 PM EDT
[#6]
Man, you're breaking my heart. 
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:35:37 PM EDT
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i partied there for about a week three years ago. i got photos...so i know i was there. but i dont remember it.
i can tell you this-nothing good happens in the french 1/4 after dark. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:35:53 PM EDT
[#8]
The aquarium, zoo, river walk, Burbon St of course, the flea market, just roam around town.
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:36:43 PM EDT
[#9]
Good advice. Texas honors Louisiana CCW permits and vice versa, I would definately carry in New Orleans. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:36:57 PM EDT
[#10]
Well, seeing as how you're married, I guess that means the 400 strip clubs there aren't an option.
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:42:26 PM EDT
[#11]
Go to Cafe Du Monde for Cafe Au Lait and Begneits -Chicory coffee and these little doughnut things that are served piping hot and dusted in powdered sugar. They're 24 hours, BTW.
Ride the free (IIRC) ferry from the quarter pier to Pont Algeirs and back (other side of the Mississippi). Do it on one of the last trips (used to be around midnight). It's cool, and great if you've got someone special to share it with. ;) Visit one of the (two?) voodoo museums. Aw hell, see 'em both. Cool, weird stuff. Ride the streetcars. Cheap xportation, and a bit of history. There's a little restaurant, although if I could tell you how to get there I'd give ya a million bucks. I just remember it was towards the "back" of the quarter, an unmarked doorway in a wall, with a menu posted next to it. Much better food than the "big" and well known tourist trap places. Affordable, too. Visit the cemetaries. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:48:10 PM EDT
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Go to Desires Oyster Bar on Bourbon St next to the Royal Sonesta Hotel. Get some oysters and a Cajun Mary. Ride the street car to the garden district. Take a carriage ride around Jackson Square. There is a bar towards the end of the popular area of Bourbon street. An old blacksmith shop. They have a drink that basically looks like a grape slushy, it will put you down if you have two. Oh, yeah visit Cafe du Mond.
Have fun. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:50:52 PM EDT
[#13]
Crap! Nothing BUT fun down in the quarter. Drink up, eat Creole and maybe Cajun, listen to original live bands, and flirt with the gals.
I love N.O. Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN! |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:52:36 PM EDT
[#14]
AND don't leave without getting a hurricane from Pat O's
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:53:06 PM EDT
[#15]
Breakfast at Brennans. Bring your appetite.
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:54:00 PM EDT
[#16]
Carry a gun. DO NOT leave main drag in Garden District.
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:57:15 PM EDT
[#17]
Maybe I don't know what the garden district is. Is it outside of the quarter? |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 12:59:05 PM EDT
[#18]
Cafe du Mond, Emeril's, Praline Connection (great restaraunt). The aquarium is neat too. We were there about a year ago.
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Posted: 9/6/2004 1:01:33 PM EDT
[#19]
Great pics! Thank you for posting them! Man, that's outstanding - I'm missing N.O. like crazy now...damn. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 1:03:26 PM EDT
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http://gardendistrict.neworleans.com/ When in New Orleans just be careful. Crime isn't as bad as it used to be but that's not saying much. People will slit your throat for $20. A friend of mine was stabbed in daylight on Canal St a few years ago (he wasn't hurt very bad though). Stay in the "tourist" sections, be aware of your surroundings and carry a gun and you can have some fun. I wouldn't want to live there though, that's why I'm across the lake
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Posted: 9/6/2004 1:09:21 PM EDT
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I would stay away from Burbon St. and stay around Decatur, Much cleaner & safer with lots of good restaurants (Like Cafe DuMonde). Burbon St. is gross, vomit on the sidewalk, pickpockets & worse everywhere.
The area around the park is pretty entertaining too. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 1:11:06 PM EDT
[#22]
Just across the street from cafe dumond is Jackson square, I would reccomend that. There is a very old Catholic church at the back of it that is neat. But on that square is where Jackson assembled his troops before the battle of New Orleans.
I would also eat crawfish, a BBQ Shrimp Po'boy (poorboy) and some Alligator. Other than that lots of shops near Bourbon street, I think the best ones I saw were several streets north of Bourbon st. A swamp tour and the Desterhain (sp?) Plantation tour is a must. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 1:13:35 PM EDT
[#23]
Thank you. I've spent many days and nights in the quarter throughout the last 15 years. I've yet to have a bad experience. I may just be lucky. I even worked executive protection for a billionaire's wedding in '02. No disruptions and everything seemed calm. We had a Fai-doe-doe (sp?) at the Zoo - THAT was a blast. We then when on ferry ride on the Miss-sip with a huge fireworks display. Dang. I've had more fun in that city than anywhere in the world (except 1 time in Seoul - long story). I've heard of crime in the area but I've noticed that if you don't "act" like a victim and / or travel in groups, you won't have much to worry about. Rats...I'm really missing that place now...ugg! |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 1:20:35 PM EDT
[#24]
Here are a couple of the Church. My second pic is just around where Jackson Square is. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 1:22:24 PM EDT
[#25]
Handgrenades!!! Drink.. Puke.. Repeat
One little tip though.. Don't ever eeeeevvvveeer go for new years. My girl and I made that mistake and stayed in the French Quarter (Marie Antoinette, a complete dump). The entire city fills up with idiots for the Sugar Bowl. Bourbon was completely impassable to foot traffic on NYE. Fun was had, but it was pretty rough all around. You don't need an event to have a party on Bourbon St. Hell, you don't even need a weekend. There's a live cam at NOLA.COM (Bourbo-cam, Beadcam, and a few others) with 24 hour archive. Every night is a party. if you plan to do the bead thing though, don't buy them in the french quarter. There are lots of wholesalers online and around town where you can get a suitcase full for a few bucks. They do scream "TOURIST" though. Oh yea, don't piss on the street. The cops LOVE hauling people in for that, and it's not at all pretty. Most bars will let you take a whizz after you buy a drink. Eating on a Bourbon St. balcony is a hoot too, and it's hard to find a bad meal. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 1:24:56 PM EDT
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Screw all that high-dollar stuff on Bourbon Street. Find Harbor Inn on S. Williams St. It's near the airport, and a bunch of car dealerships. Be hungry. Real hungry. Start with an appetizer tray of shrimp, blue crabs, crawfish, new potatoes and corn-on-the cob. Work up to a main dish like tilapia or swordfish. Too bad you're missing crawfish season.
IMHO, if you're interested in a t-shirt, go to the big-name spots. If you're interested in some damn fine cooking, you've got to get off the beaten path. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 1:39:31 PM EDT
[#27]
New Orleans battlefield. Some dude named Jackson whupped some uninvited Brits there.
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Posted: 9/6/2004 1:46:54 PM EDT
[#28]
I was in New Orleans for a conference in early august - who the HELL thought that was a good place to have 5000+ people meet [whaco]
If you want a good hotel recommendation - fuck the Sheraton and the Mariott, and stay at the W - they've got one in the French Q. and one a few blocks aways (behind the casino) I was actually very underwhelmed by New Orleans. Many of the restaurants in the French Q were okay, but not great. Muriel's was good, but not fantastic - and definitely overpriced. A lot of the good restaurants are apparently in the garden district. I went to a couple of good lunch places in the french quarter - and had an awesome gator sausage at one of them - but I forget the names (ask your conceirge for recommendations). There's a place called Dick & Jenn's (or something like that) that is supposedly really good. My fiancee went to some fancy-schmacy restaurant outside town that's supposed to be the best in New Orleans (but I wasn't invited  ).I was very unimpressed with the french quarter. I was like "look - boobies!! Aren't we naughty!! And look, I'm drinking a beer on the sidewalk. Whooopie!!"  Mostly, I thought New Orleans was tacky and silly, and as far as a major city, stuff like the zoo and other things really weren't all that.The Cathederal (or is it a Basilica now?) was very nice - I liked that. There - my grumpy fart review of New Orleans. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 2:34:24 PM EDT
[#29]
Wel this is how it was... In 1814 we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississipp' We took a little bacon and they took a little beans. And we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans. We fired our guns and the British kept a comin, there wasn't as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the bramble and they ran through the places where a rabbit wouldn't go they ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch em down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. O'l Hickory said we could take em by suprise if we didn't fire our muskets till we looked em in the eyes. We held our fire till we seen their faces well then we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave em welllllllllllllllllll We fired our guns and the British kept a comin, there wasn't as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin, down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. (here's my favorite verse) We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down then we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round. We fillerd his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind and when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind. We fired our guns and the British kept a comin there wasn't as many as there was awhile ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin, down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 2:40:32 PM EDT
[#30]
  Brother, I wish I could take you on a tour - you'd have a blast! |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 2:44:28 PM EDT
[#31]
wasn't that the battle that took place AFTER the war ended?? Did someone not get a memo or something? 
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Posted: 9/6/2004 3:10:29 PM EDT
[#32]
When I was at LSU Law School in Baton Rouge, I was the Official Tour Guide for the Law School for New Orleans and the French Quarter.
IF you ever had a bad time in New Orleans it was simply due to the fact that I was not there to help you figure out what to do! Sorry. My mother's family were all Good German Catholics who settled in New Orleans in the 1830s. The stories I used to hear growing up! Mind you, no one in her family ever went to the French Quarter after about 1950 or so. It had become the destination of tourists and college kids by around that time. Eric The(N'awlinsKindaGuy)Hun 
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Posted: 9/6/2004 3:11:56 PM EDT
[#33]
A tour from somebody like 82nd who really knows the city. It's been thirty years since I was there and that was with a group that wasn't into touring.
Bourbon St. - Well if I wanted to see drunks, tits, and partiers, I can do that a lot cheaper here in the Los Angeles area. And I went to USC so I'veseen the Coliseum, and the Rose bowl so the Super Dome is no big whoop, and the casino riverboats, well we got Indian casinos an hour away and Vegas is 5 hours away. But I would really like to see the Quarter, the architecture, the gardens etc. I wouldn't mind getting exotic on the food either, Ma can't eat spicy (bad reflux) but I sure can but I don't want to pay a 200% tourist tax for a mediocre meal. Also the historical areas. Be able to get out and walk around some without having to worry too much about being a victim. And get directions from somebody that knows where things really are. Maybe if Ma and me win the Lottery we'll give you a call. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 3:36:12 PM EDT
[#34]
get a Lucky Dog..they have stands all over bourbon St. and wash it down with a couple of handgrenades.
The sickest thing I saw was when the a mounted police's horse took a huge crap in the middle of the street. It was so crowded people were stepping and slipping on it. After 30 minutes the whole street smelled like crap...Nasty, I almost threw up my lucky dog and my handgrenades. Some People did and added to the carnage. ewwwww |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 6:24:31 PM EDT
[#35]
Sounds like big fun to me.
Thanks for all the information. We ought to have an arfcom convention there with Eric(thetourguide)Hun and 82ndAbn giving us the grand tour of N'awlins. Son of a gun, gonna have big fun on the bayou. |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 7:16:33 PM EDT
[#36]
Are you from NOLA 82nd ? 
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Posted: 9/6/2004 7:19:34 PM EDT
[#37]
I believe 1815--I was with Jean Lafitte and we all got Presidential Pardons...That was so Cool 
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Posted: 9/6/2004 7:22:15 PM EDT
[#38]
Where are you staying? |
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Posted: 9/6/2004 7:24:13 PM EDT
[#39]
Lucky Dog... Surprized ya still alive
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