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    If You’re From Baton Rouge—Quarter Stories 15
    • Feb 12, 2019
    • 12 min

    If You’re From Baton Rouge—Quarter Stories 15

    STORY: Stories about my adventures bartending in New Orleans in the late ’70s and early ’80s. To read them all, click #quarterstories....
    Bartending is a Dance – Quarter Stories 10
    • Nov 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    Bartending is a Dance – Quarter Stories 10

    STORY: At Lafitte’s Bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the bar was made of thick old bayou cypress planks polished by thousands of...
    Peacocks – Quarter Stories 9
    • Oct 9, 2018
    • 11 min

    Peacocks – Quarter Stories 9

    STORY: 1979 - The crowds were still in full force around the stage for the Bourbon Street Awards and the only space available was under...
    The Torch – Quarter Stories 14
    • Jun 21, 2018
    • 5 min

    The Torch – Quarter Stories 14

    STORY: 1982—Max was at work at the point station, his head down deep into the jockey box scooping up ice in the cups taking orders three...
    Cajun Sweat (Louis Pt. 2 )- Quarter Stories 13
    • Jun 10, 2018
    • 5 min

    Cajun Sweat (Louis Pt. 2 )- Quarter Stories 13

    STORY: Louis had vanished. I looked for him, but he kept out of the bars, strange hours, whatever jobs he picked up. Saw Jeff again, who...
    The Lavender Line – Quarter Stories 11
    • Jun 10, 2018
    • 4 min

    The Lavender Line – Quarter Stories 11

    STORY: Sunday was my favorite day to go out. Friday and Saturday shifts were over. I could go out on my own down to the Quarter and hang...
    Louis the Cajun – Quarter Stories 12
    • May 12, 2018
    • 4 min

    Louis the Cajun – Quarter Stories 12

    STORY: 1981—Cajuns have a way about them, the way they move as men, the heavy beards, beefy bodies, thick hair all over em. Sexy as...
    • May 8, 2018
    • 6 min

    Bourbon Street Exulting – Quarter Stories 8

    STORY: 1979: A thunderclap woke me up and then loud voices. I hadn’t gotten much sleep but wasn’t hungover. I felt a buzz all around me,...
    Jewel’s and the Shah – Quarter Stories 7
    • May 7, 2018
    • 7 min

    Jewel’s and the Shah – Quarter Stories 7

    STORY: 1979–Dinner at 1132 Bourbon Street at the dining room table was a daunting experience with all these handsome men, at least 10 to...
    Ghosts and Lovers – Quarter Stories 6
    • May 6, 2018
    • 6 min

    Ghosts and Lovers – Quarter Stories 6

    1979 – “The rules of this house during Mardi Gras are” as George South proceeded to tell all of us hung-over guys at about 11am on...
    • May 5, 2018
    • 4 min

    Mardi Gras Mambo – Quarter Stories 5

    1979: Getting to work at Café Lafitte on the second night of Mari Gras was tough, even though 1132 Bourbon Street was only a couple of...
    • May 4, 2018
    • 7 min

    Bartender Debut – Quarter Stories 4

    STORY: Mardi Gras, 1979: Clyde, Al and I began walking up to Lafitte’s. Clyde started talking about Louie Hartfield and his lover Steve,...
    Arrival – Quarter Stories 3
    • May 3, 2018
    • 5 min

    Arrival – Quarter Stories 3

    1978: Safely landed at New Orleans Airport, Al and I jumped into an airport van and headed straight to the French Quarter. As the van...
    • May 2, 2018
    • 6 min

    Heading to New Orleans – Quarter Stories 2

    1978: The stewardess gently told us to fasten our seatbelts, we were now descending into New Orleans. I thought it was part of a dream. I...
    • Apr 30, 2018
    • 3 min

    Introduction–Quarter Stories 1

    STORY: (Late 1970s-1980s): In New Orleans, Bourbon Street runs for thirteen narrow blocks, roughly north to south, a straight line,...

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