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Nick's Original Big Train Bar was a New Orleans saloon originally established as a grocery in 1918 by Nicholas G. "Mr. Nick" Castrogiovanni (1893–1979). Located at 2400 Tulane Avenue across the street from the Dixie Brewing Company , Nick's Bar operated until Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.
It has been described as "the classiest jazz club in New Orleans" by The New York Times [1] and as a "musical landmark" by Rolling Stone. [2] It features live performances by both noted local and touring national jazz performers. Regulars include Charmaine Neville, Ellis Marsalis, and Irvin Mayfield. [3]
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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 ...
But it’s the 32-seat bar made from whitewashed shiplap that is the focal point of the 3,200-square-foot restaurant. At 5 p.m. on Thursday half of the seats at the rectangular bar were occupied.
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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 Oakland, California, which has also operated since 1933).
Location of Orleans Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, which is consolidated with the city of New Orleans.