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Originally Posted by Greekdick69 Ok, thanks B.C.! I'm sold! Is this during Mardi gras only? If not I'll go there as soon as I can, otherwise I'll start planning to be there Mardi Gras 2008!
I must be one fo those experiences that you can never forget...I am sexual stuff left and right in the middle of the street...priceless! |
Yes, mardi gras only (excepting maybe perhaps
some things that go on during what's called Southern Decadence). At precisely 12 midnight at the close of Fat Tuesday the police will come through the quarters, getting everyone off the streets (most just go inside bars etc. and continue til the wee hours) but all else stops and the street sweepers come in.
Some (of the uninitiated) are surprised the next day (Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent in a city with a majority Catholic population) when they can no longer walk down the middle of Bourbon and Royal streets. All quickly returns to business as usual the very next day and merely taking a whizz in the wrong place can get you quickly arrested.
Then again, one need not wait til mardi gras to see "topless girls" and "bottomless guys" here. There is a clothes optional club where on any given summer weekend one can find a packed house full of the same, though much more sedate: lounging around poolside, tanning and sipping drinks ( pardon... "cocktails").