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To: Rambi who wrote (36676)	8/30/1999 4:58:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

New Orleans has probably changed a lot since the last time you were there. After we moved, crack became a bad problem, and people left the city for the suburbs. That seems to be less of a problem now, I hear. And then gambling became legal. And Anne Rice became popular with the Goth kids. So where there used to be sidewalk artists, now the last time I was there it was sidewalk fortune tellers. These things come and go. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, there were a lot of hippies sleeping all over the place. Now it's kids dressed in black, walking around at night.

To: Rambi who wrote (36676)	8/30/1999 6:56:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Well, what my tourbooks say is to by all means go, but go with a group. I think they do have half-day walking tours of the cemetaries from most of the hotels. I also think the famous Glapion tomb (where voodoo queen Marie Laveau is supposedly buried) is supposed to be okay in daytime hours, since there are so many tourists there. Last time I went there, I loved taking a taxi down St. Charles Avenue and seeing the lovely cut glass windows in the doors of the great mansions. They are beautiful at dusk, when the lights are on behind.