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Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is featured in the historical novel Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen.As depicted in the novel, the "blacksmith shop" was mainly a cover for maintaining a gang of exceptionally tall and strong black slaves – who were ostensibly engaged in shoeing horses while being used by the Lafitte brothers for intimidation, extortion and other criminal activities in and around New ...
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 bar in the United States (along with White Horse Inn in ...
Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate, privateer, and slave trader who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte".
This moody bar was the ideal karaoke spot for both Josh Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel in "(500) Days of Summer," but that isn't the only movie (or TV show) to film here. This location also ...
The Buccaneer is a 1958 pirate-war film [3] made by Paramount Pictures starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte, Charles Boyer [4] and Claire Bloom. [5] [6] [7] Charlton Heston played a supporting role as Andrew Jackson, [5] [7] [8] [9] the second time that Heston played Jackson, having portrayed him earlier in the 1953 film The President's Lady.
The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures starring Fredric March and based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The picture was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb , Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie MacPherson ...
Tremé (/ t r ə ˈ m eɪ / trə-MAY) is a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana."Tremé" is often rendered as Treme, and the neighborhood is sometimes called by its more formal French name, the Faubourg Tremé; [1] it is listed in the New Orleans City Planning Districts as Tremé / Lafitte when including the Lafitte Projects.
Fifteen years ago, they opened Cozie's Sports Bar and Grill in Gretna, Louisiana, just across the river from New Orleans and 5 miles from the Superdome. "My husband is a Philadelphia Eagles fan. I ...