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Tipitina's stands as one of the best-known clubs in New Orleans. The building itself was constructed in 1912, and prior to becoming Tipitina's, it served as a gambling house, gymnasium, and brothel. [ 2] In the early years, it had a juice bar, restaurant, and a bar. The only remnant of the juice bar is the banana in Tipitina's logo. [ 1]
824 Canal Street New Orleans, Louisiana. Coordinates. 29°57′14.2″N 90°04′14.1″W. / 29.953944°N 90.070583°W / 29.953944; -90.070583. The Boston Club is an exclusive private gentlemen's club in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, founded in 1841 as a place for its white members to congregate and partake in the fashionable card game of ...
The Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club (founded 1916) is a fraternal organization in New Orleans, Louisiana which puts on the Zulu parade each year on Mardi Gras Day. Zulu is New Orleans' largest predominantly African American carnival organization known for its krewe members wearing grass skirts and its unique throw of hand-painted coconuts. [ 1]
Location. 115 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, Louisiana. Coordinates. 29°57′10.7″N 90°04′10.3″W. / 29.952972°N 90.069528°W / 29.952972; -90.069528. The Pickwick Club is a private gentlemen's club in New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] [2] Founded in 1857, The Pickwick Club and the Mistick Krewe were originally one group comprising ...
Thomas B. Poindexter was an American slave trader and cotton planter. He had the highest net worth, US$350,000 (equivalent to $11,868,889 in 2023), of the 34 active resident slave traders indexed as such in the 1860 New Orleans census, ahead of Jonathan M. Wilson and Bernard Kendig.
Coordinates: 29°57′32.69″N90°04′25.73″W29.9590806°N 90.0738139°W. One of the few surviving buildings from Storyville, 2005 photograph. 100 years earlier, the "New Image Supermarket" building housed Frank Early's saloon, where Tony Jackson regularly played. Storyville was the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 to ...
Tchoupitoulas Street (/ ˌ tʃ ɒ p ɪ ˈ t uː l ə s / ⓘ CHOP-ih-TOO-ləss) is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Running through uptown, it is the through street closest to the Mississippi River. Formerly, the street was heavily devoted to river shipping commerce, but as shipping concerns gravitated to other locations in ...
Cafe Lafitte in Exile. Coordinates: 29.9604°N 90.0642°W. Cafe Lafitte in Exile on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, opened in 1933, claims to be the oldest gay bar in the United States. Cafe Lafitte in Exile is a bar in New Orleans ' French Quarter that has operated continuously since 1933. It claims to be the oldest continuously operating gay ...