Johnny White's Bourbon Street bar never closed

[DeepModem Mom]

AFP: New Orleans bar stayed open through Katrina and chaos that followed
Aug 29


(Breitbart)

Johnny White's is a Bourbon Street bar that never closes. Not during the raging wind and rain of Hurricane Katrina. Not during the looting.

Or the curfews. Or those long, lonely weeks when New Orleans stagnated under floodwaters that covered 80 percent of the city and officials tried to force the last of its residents to evacuate.

Call it madness. Call it anti-authoritarian pigheadedness. Or call it dogged determination not to let a lifestyle die....

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In the days immediately following the storm it seemed like the world was coming to an end. People were dying in the streets. Looters were smashing up stores and roaming the streets in armed gangs. Smoke filled the skies from burning buildings.

The bar stools were filled with shell-shocked people who had swum out of their flooded homes to safety only to find that there was no help to be had from the powers that be...

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The bar became a community center as a tight knit group of die-hards piled water and military rations up outside. It soon became a favorite among journalists and rescue workers who needed a place they could go to forget the despair and destruction....

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/29/060829125321.c4gklrs2.html

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1. One of my favorites

They also don't have a key to the door, don't need one. Also in the picture on the left side is the Tropical Isle, a great parrot head bar. I love to sit by the front door on game day and watch the fans stroll bourbon street after the game. Go to Johnny Whites about three in the morning, you'll be convinced that there is life on other planets and they sometimes visit us.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Thanks for posting this inside look, BOSSHOG! nt