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Louisiana Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

In 2011, the American Society of Civil Engineers dedicated the Huey P. Long Bridge as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

That’s a really big deal. There are only four structures in Louisiana that have been accorded the honor (Eads South Pass Navigation Works in New Orleans; McNeill Street Pumping Station in Shreveport and Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge in
New Orleans are the other three.)

Louisiana Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

I love that Pete Fountain had a long-running beef with Lawrence Welk.

Louisiana Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

I used to drive to Hansen’s in uptown New Orleans a few Wednesdays a year to get a Bananas Foster snoball. Unfortunately they quit running this particular special on Wednesdays and started doing it when fancy struck. After two swings and misses I quit going to Hansen’s.

Lovely people, great snoballs, if y’all hear about them returning the Bananas Foster to Wednesdays please holler.

Louisiana Daily Photo via rl reeves jr

The old days when you went to Washington Square to score a lid of grass or pick up a floozy are long gone. A recent morning ramble through the old park found a few crusty, train-hopping Mohicans crashed out from a long night of drinking, and a fresh crop of mushrooms sprouting up out of the dirt.

This will be the only nature shot you’ll ever see on Chowpapi.