enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Mardi Gras throws - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_gras_throws

   Mardi Gras throws are strings of beads, doubloons, cups, or other trinkets passed out or thrown from the floats for Mardi Gras celebrations, particularly in New Orleans, the Mobile, Alabama, and parades throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States, to spectators lining the streets. The "gaudy plastic jewelry, toys, and other mementos [are ...

3. Celebrating Mardi Gras: What to know about the colorful ...

   www.aol.com/celebrating-mardi-gras-know-colorful...

   Revellers catch beads from a float in the 2023 Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club parade during a Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans on Feb. 21, 2023. How does New Orleans celebrate Mardi Gras?

4. Mardi Gras Doubloons - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras_Doubloons

   Mardi Gras doubloons were first created by New Orleans artist and entrepreneur H. Alvin Sharpe in 1959. [2] Sharpe had his own metal dies for striking the doubloons from aluminum blanks. He presented a design to Darwin Schreiver Fenner, who was the captain of the Krewe of Rex , the leading Mardi Gras organization of the time. [ 3 ]

5. Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras_in_New_Orleans

   The practice of exposing female breasts in exchange for Mardi Gras beads, however, was mostly limited to tourists in the upper Bourbon Street area. [ 5 ] [ 58 ] In the crowded streets of the French Quarter, generally avoided by locals on Mardi Gras Day, flashers on balconies cause crowds to form on the streets.

6. When is Mardi Gras 2024? A look at how it began and how to ...

   www.aol.com/mardi-gras-2024-look-began-100456173...

   Mardi Gras is Feb. 13, 2024, however the festivities often take place much earlier. ... Large parades, jester masks, colorful beads, elaborate costumes and a baby inside a pastry are all commonly ...

7. Krewe of Bacchus - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krewe_of_Bacchus

   In keeping with tradition, "Bacchus beads" and doubloons are thrown to revelers from the floats. After a long absence from prime time television, Bacchus returned to the New Orleans airwaves in 2009, when NBC affiliate WDSU produced a five-hour live broadcast of the parade and ensuing party at New Orleans Morial Convention Center .