Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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I HE city plies a tourist trade. Tliere is the New Orleans of the Quarter and noise; one first seen, but when known, found shallow. Curiosity brings you to the Jet and through the bush country to that mecca of madness. Here in one spot, as though through some pecu- liar conjunction of the planets, are found together the famous and venerable Grubby Hot Dog Venders with Dirty Aprons, Lynda Bridgette, and the world ' s largest stripper (378 pounds, dripping sweat). The place is fun, but some find it tiring. The music is exciting, heard once, but when the Saints and Basin Street Blues become marketable commodities supplied on demand, a certain amount of spon- taneity necessarily is lost. A sometime place for fun, a full time place for some, but Mardi Gras comes apace and beer and wine and people and plastic beads are gathered by forces little understood. Play-drink-sing-enjoy, for tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and very far away.

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I HERE is another city. It is more difficult to find, hidden as it is between the glitter and light of the others, but it was there all the while. It does not demand attention, but it de- serves it. There are people here, people worth kifowing: the women in the French Market sorting onions at dawn; the shop- keepers along Prytania; the musicians who will play if they please and not one minute before. This city is where the others were, but at different hours and in a different style. As you leave New Orleans you will remember the Quarter and the sparkle, but you will treasure the beret topped ancient who spoke with you one Sunday morn- ing in Jackson Square about the days when . . . Change is not unusual for this city. For all her tradition and mustiness. New Orleans changes daily as we learn of a part we overlooked yesterday and wonder what new discoveries lie hidden in tomorrow.