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In New Orleans, the Zulu parade rolls first, starting at 8:00 a.m. on the corner of Jackson and Claiborne and ending at Broad and Orleans, Rex follows Zulu as it turns onto St. Charles following the traditional Uptown route from Napoleon to St. Charles and then to Canal St. Truck parades follow Rex and often have hundreds of floats blowing loud ...
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Mardi Gras World (also known as Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World, MGW) is a tourist attraction located in New Orleans. Guests tour the 300,000 square foot working warehouse where floats are made for Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. [1] Mardi Gras World is located along the Mississippi River, next to the New Orleans Morial Convention Center ...
The route was originally created to pass by the Lighthouse for the Blind, Children's Hospital of New Orleans, the John J. Hainkel Home and Rehabilitation Center (formerly called the Home for the Incurables, founded in 1891 to house the terminally ill), the former U.S. Marine Hospital, the Poydras Home and many other locations with people who ...
The first parade comprised six small floats drawn by mules, a handful of marching bands and riders on horseback. Since The death of Float designer Betty Ray Kern Sister of Blaine Kern, 1999 the parade floats were designed and decorated by New Orleans Artist and float designer Ricardo Pustanio. Pustanio designed the parade from 1999-2020.
Ye Royal Out House; Ye Royal Bath is the only float in Mardi Gras with a giant functioning slide into a giant hot-tub; The Funky Tucks is a 3-Float tandem which boasts cages flocking each corner of the float with Cage Dancers inside. The S.S. Tucks Booze Cruise is a crew ship themed float to honor the Krewe of Tucks going from "Boats to Floats."
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