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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 2006/02

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day...A Celebration and Memory
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:50:50 -0500


"On Mardi Gras, the women of Storyville [New Orleans' red-light district,
where prostitution was legal from 1897 to 1917] did not mingle with the maskers
but remained in their neighborhood, which now was spreading into the French
Quarter, as they took over the houses left by the vanishing Creoles, who once
had also possessed Mardi Gras. Now, on that day, Carnival revelers would
wander through Storyville in the hours between parades, to gasp at Arlington's
'five-dollar house' with its huge chandeliers and beveled mirrors. They would
drop in at the Countess Willie Piazza's, where the girls were always in lovely
Egyptian costumes on Mardi Gras, and at Lulu White's, where there were
bedrooms with walls and ceilings composed entirely of mirrors. They could peep
through shutters into the cheap cribs, where naked girls sat around awaiting
patrons....And they heard the new kind of music being played in Storyville
called 'jass,' which was being introduced in other parts of the city but was
considered rather indecent."

-Robert Tallent
"Mardi Gras" (Doubleday, 1948)

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