Driving Downtown - New Orleans' Bourbon Street 4K - USA
Driving Downtown Streets - Bourbon Street - New Orleans Louisiana USA - Episode 39.
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Bourbon Street (French: Rue Bourbon) is a street in the heart of New Orleans' oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter, in New Orleans, Louisiana. It extends 13 blocks from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue.[1] Known for its bars and strip clubs, Bourbon Street's history provides a rich insight into New Orleans' past.
Entertainment, Bars, and Restaurants
Largely quiet during the day, Bourbon Street comes alive at night, particularly during the French Quarter's many festivals. Most famous of these is the annual Mardi Gras celebration, when the streets teem with thousands of people. Local open container laws allow drinking alcoholic beverages on the Quarter's streets. Popular drinks include the hurricane cocktail, the resurrection cocktail, the hand grenade and the profanely named huge-ass beers – a large plastic cup of draft beer marketed to tourists at a low price.
The most heavily-visited section of Bourbon Street is upper Bourbon Street toward Canal Street, an eight-block section of visitor attractions.[14] Among the attractions are bars, restaurants, souvenir shops and strip clubs. There are also a number of gay bars. The strip clubs include Rick's Cabaret, Temptations and Larry Flynt's Barely Legal Club.
Most of the bars are located in the central section of Bourbon. Popular spots include Pat O'Brien's, Johnny White's, the Famous Door, Spirits on Bourbon, Channing Tatum's Saints and Sinners, Razzoo and The Cat's Meow.[15] Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo is located on the corner of St. Ann Street.
The most renowned restaurant on Bourbon Street is Galatoire's; it represents traditional New Orleans dining and has a dress code. Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop and the Old Absinthe House are two of the many casual eateries.[1]
Lower Bourbon Street (lower being a reference to downriver, or downstream Mississippi River), from the intersection of St. Ann Street, caters to New Orleans' thriving gay community, featuring such establishments as Oz and the city's largest gay nightclub, the Bourbon Pub. St. Ann Street has been referred to as the Velvet Line[16] or the Lavender Line, the edge or approximate boundary of the French Quarter's gay community. Cafe-Lafitte-in-Exile is the oldest gay bar in the nation. The intersection of Bourbon and St. Ann Streets is also the center of the Labor Day weekend event Southern Decadence, commonly referred to as the Gay Mardi Gras, which attracts upwards of 100,000 participants.
The holiday of Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana, although celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. Usually there is one major parade each day (weather permitting); many days have several large parades. The largest and most elaborate parades take place the last five days of the Mardi Gras season. In the final week, many events occur throughout New Orleans and surrounding communities, including parades and balls (some of them masquerade balls).
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U.S. Census.[4][5] The New Orleans metropolitan area (New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area) had a population of 1,167,764 in 2010 and was the 46th largest in the United States.[6] The New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area, a larger trading area, had a 2010 population of 1,452,502.[7]
The city is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723, as it was established by French colonists and strongly influenced by their European culture. It is well known for its distinct French and Spanish Creole architecture, as well as its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage.[8] New Orleans is also famous for its cuisine, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz),[9][10] and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras, dating to French colonial times. The city is often referred to as the most unique[11] in the United States.
Mardi Gras 2008 in New Orleans - Dancing at the Bourbon Pub
The rockin' dance floor upstairs at the Bourbon Pub - February 5, 2008
Lafitte's Bar New Orleans
Fun times and Great Music
New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations, adds Bourbon Street
1. Wide shot US troops holding flags at start of parade
2. Marching bands passing spectators
3. Close up Zulu dancers
4. Parade marchers with band
5. Crowd at side of road
6. Various band and dancers marching
7. Wide shot New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on horseback, surrounded by journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ray Nagin, New Orleans Mayor:
Mardi Gras looks wonderful. The crowds are great, they are enthusiastic and everybody is having a really good time. The thing that is really unique is that I am seeing a lot more children out here, with smiling faces and that makes me feel good.
8. Wide shot float with people throwing beads and coconuts
9. Wide shot crowd at Bourbon Street
10. Woman receiving beads
11. Medium shot crowd in the street
12. Men dressed up
13. Man dressed up as sandbag
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Duhe, resident dressed up as sand bag
I am here to pay tribute to the 2,000 pound (900 kilograms) sandbag, which was really the hero of the flood. Without the 2,000 pound sandbag the city could not have been de-watered as they say. So I think it was worth paying tribute to the 2,000 pound sandbag and here and I love it. I am having a great time.
15. Pan from trash to people on Bourbon street
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Hall Moser, New Orleans Resident
You know in our neighbourhood there were so many houses destroyed, and we were really lucky that our house survived, we are back in our house. We have no gas, we have no hot water, we are camping out in our house, but it is Mardi Gras. You have to have fun, tomorrow is another day, today is Mardi Gras.
17. Woman on Bourbon street balcony
STORYLINE:
The crowds were small and the costumes wickedly satirical as Mardi Gras reached its climax in New Orleans on Tuesday.
The culmination of the eight-day pre-Lenten bash fell nearly six months after the August 29 storm that smashed thousands of homes and killed more than 1,300 people, the vast majority of them in New Orleans.
Even amid the typical debauchery - including early morning drinking, flashes of bare breasts and skimpy costumes in the French Quarter - there was no escaping reminders of the storm.
The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, the 97-year-old predominantly black club, paraded amid homes that still bear dirty brown water marks from the floodwaters that covered 80 percent of the city.
The club - which lost 10 members to Katrina - staged its annual parade with actual Zulu warriors from South Africa, a first for the group.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who dressed up in National Guard uniform, said he was happy with the turnout, particularly the number of children who had come along.
The city that still has less than half its pre-storm population of almost a half-million, but cheering revellers crowded into Bourbon Street, with many saying it was important to keep celebrating.
You have to have fun, tomorrow is another day, today is Mardi Gras. said New Orleans resident Hall Moser, who's house still has no gas or hot water following the hurricane.
Another resident, Michael Duhe, dressed up as a 2,000 pound (900 kilogram) sandbag. He said he wanted to pay tribute to the real hero of the flood, meaning the sandbags that helped draining the city from water.
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Mardi Gras St Louis Parade Preview
Happy Mardi Gras 2018
Hope everyone’s having a great day today. Happy Mardi Gras to everyone.
Mardi Gras 2019
A full day of Mardi Gras festivities, where we walk the whole parade route and end up on Bourbon Street.
Gay Nightlife, Big Bulge Contest in New Orleans, Louisiana USA
PinkPlanet: A Global Search for Gay Culture is a TV series exploring LGBTQ+ life all over the world. In this episode we feature the Gay nightlife scene in New Orleans, LA, United States during the annual LGBt event, Southern Decadence. One of the highlights is the Big Bulge contest which is exactly what it sounds like. It's literally a big dick contest hosted by Drag Queen Chi Chi LaRue. The size judge is porn star Adam Killian. We also spoke to Drag Super Star Lady Bunny about helping New Orleans recover after Hurricane Katrina.
Bourbon Street Bar
Bourbon Street
Oz new orleans at 4 am
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Halloween parade in New Orleans
41st Annual Southern Decadence Parade
Crazy times at Southern Decadence
Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras 2016 (360 Video)
The insanity that is Bourbon Street during Fat Tuesday, AKA, Mardi Gras.
Mardi Gras 2014 at Oz New Orleans
Q25 Southern Decadence: Gay Mardi Gras In New Orleans (1993)
Labor Day Weekend in New Orleans means Southern Decadence, the LGBT Mardi Gras, and we were there anyway for the PFLAG convention -- or the other way around, I can't remember -- so here it is in all it's rainbow-mascara-bronzer-and-feather boa glory. A good time for all, including the Pflaggers. Their convention can be seen here:
It also provided a great opportunity for the definitive Queer Holiday treatment of the French Quarter.
From Network Q Out Across America Episode 25 November 1993. Watch the rest of the episode at
Produced and directed by David Surber; associate producer Carol Morgan; New Orleans crew: Louis Rodriguez, Dan Burnett, Tim Arwood; New York crew: John Slater, Dimitri Kibrik; senior editor Clark Morris; editors Greg Kiernan, Darryl Frank; graphics by Kelly Lujan; post production :30 Second St., Ltd.; administrative support Ched Kindley and Heidi Shewchuk; Susan Hendricks produced and edited by Stacy Zemon; Whoop Dee Doo producer John Slater, videography Dimitri Kibrik. Incidental music: Talkies, from the YouTube royalty-free library. Edited for the internet by David Surber.
Originally distributed via subscription on VHS tape; aired on public television in the US in 1995.
Bourbon Pub Pride kickoff 2013
Boys on parade hosts Miss Gay Louisiana 2005 Jasmine Essex and 2012 Pride Grand Marshall Matthew Birkhoff kick off pride.
Mardigras @ New Orleans 2016
Tribute to New Orleans
This is a photo collage of my trip to New Orleans in June, with a few photos from the web thrown in. The song is Down in New Orleans by Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band ( ). There weren't any videos of this song, so I made one! This is my first attempt at making a video with Windows Movie Maker, so the timing of some of the photos doesn't quite line up with the lyrics but it's close enough. Enjoy! ^_^
Trip to New Orleans - Louisiana - Jazz City
Something To Believe In
Miss Britnee Alexander at the Bourbon Pub and Parade in New Orleans, LA on April 25, 2012