Carnival In New Orleans - 2012
Mardi Gras Day - February 21, 2012
[Other Carnival Pictures Further Down]
0001 - early-bird traditional "Skeletons" enjoy a Mardi Gras tradition
0002 - Brocato's original location - Italian pastries, etc.
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0007 - "Uncle Lionel" Batiste (bass drum)
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0010 - "I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do. ..."
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0013 - The great New Orleans musician: Pete Fountain
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0015 - Ey Yi Yi, She's from Puerto Rico!
0016 - Ouch! If looks could ...
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0018 - Pete's band trolley
0019 - Pete's Half-Fast Marching Club (since 1961)
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0038 - NOPD Chief Ronal Serpas scopes it out personally.
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0041 (through 47) Interstellar Transmissions
0042 - Nathan
0043 - Ishani
0044 - William
0045 - Gavin
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0050 - Mad Hatters
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0052 - Harvey? Are you Harvey?
0053 - (just before she kissed him on the cheek)
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0057 - Steeple of old New Orleans' St. Augustine Church
0058 - crosses of power
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0060 - getting into a special part of Carnival
0061 - Mardi Gras Indians
0062 - "CONGO NATION goin' to de Gras!!" (chant)
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0076 - last-minute adjustments
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0084 - tambourine rhythm for her dance
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0090 - classic New Orleans house in the old quarter (Vieux Carré)
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0097 - cupola atop the Cabildo (old house of state of Louisiana)
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0100 - Saint Louis Basilica
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0102 - face painter
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0104 - Here come the "Cowbellians" with symbolic cow bells and rakes
0105 - "We are Comus!" (originators of New Orleans Mardi Gras)
0106 - The Nutria
0107 - Royal Street hitching post
0108 - Ol' Man River (and the Natchez) - end Mardi Gras Day
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0111 - Central Grocery, Italian specialties
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0113 - Maid of Orleans, Jeanne d'Arc (St. Joan)
0114 - Pouring down on the old French Market
0115 - the new bike-taxis have their disadvantages
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0120 - Giovanni
0121 - new chefs' parade
0122 - Bourbon Street Zydeco
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0125 - Statue of "Jumbo" (Al Hurt)
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0138 - Chihuahua! He's some cute!
0139 - Geo & Dorise Blackmon (musicians)
0140 - a good deed in progress
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0142 - U.S. Marine Corp Band in the Proteus parade
0143 - Flambeau, kerosene torches to light the old parades
0144 - a "duke" of Proteus
0145 - bead (and doubloon) "throws" from Krewe members on "floats"
0146 - Warren Easton (high school) Band
0147 - Tanya Huang, Dorise, and Geo
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