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To: Ilaine who wrote (57)2/20/2001 9:03:46 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 6901
 
We may have crossed paths, but not in those refined places you mention. Any refinement I may have acquired came after the time I spent in New Orleans. The only establishment I frequented in the Quarter was the Pair A Dice on Decatur Street. I did most of my socializing with the freaks over on Jackson Square.

You could usually find me in one of the watering holes on St. Charles Avenue. The C-Note Lounge near the corner of Felicity Street was home base. I knew it would be home the first time I walked in. I'd taken no more than a couple of steps in, a voice from somewhere in the back hollered, "Hey bubba you got a joint?" (pronounced jo-waynt) The owner would make a big pot of food once a week for his customers. It was on the house and was always real good. I lived on Felicity for most of my time there, spent a little while living on Prytania Street. I never knew that neighborhood was called the Irish Channel - I like the sound of that.

One funny memory I have is when I was in the Polka Dot Lounge shooting pool with a grizzled old guy named Fred. A sophisticated and well heeled couple from France come strolling in, explaining to the 5 or 6 drunks in the place that they were sick of the tourist traps and were out to see the real New Orleans. After a few befuddled moments of trying to figure out what their angle was, we decided they were what they said they were. They were a lot of fun. The husband took a few snapshots of the wife taking shots at the pool table and took one of her posing with me and Fred. Its always amused me that somewhere in France is a photo of this gracious and elegant lady posing with a beat looking old dude wearing a beat up straw cowboy hat and a long haired kid in an A-shirt. Wonder what their friends made of that.
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