Nice New Orleans

New Orleans is a mixture of naughty and nice.  We stopped at a hole-in-the-wall type of place and I had a great crawfish etouffee.  John enjoyed the Coop Burger (the restaurant/bar is called Coops Place).

The Historic New Orleans Collection is a museum with various displays with no major theme, just New Orleans.  This sign is from the streetcar named Desire.  Years ago New Orleans had a streetcar that stopped at Desire Street.  Tennessee Williams wrote the play set in New Orleans and including this fact.

For sports fans, this is a shovel from breaking ground for the Superdome.  Below is a sterling silver wine cooler.  During the Great Depression, the Sugar Bowl football game was created to stimulate the tourist economy with the first game played Jan 1^st, 1935.  This wine cooler was donated by a local antiques dealer to serve as the trophy and became the symbol of the event.

 

Interior view of St. Louis Cathedral.

 

Mississippi River view.

 

The French Market is an open air strip of vendors selling everything from clothes to jewelry with lots of bizarre things thrown in like voodoo dolls.  It is said the market began as a Chowtaw trading post and has survived several fires and hurricanes.

The Christmas spirit in New Orleans.