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The bar was featured in a New Orleans edition of the TruTV series Impractical Jokers. The bar's front sign was briefly visible in a New Orleans reference in season 5, episode 13 of Family Guy, "Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey." NCIS: New Orleans, season 3, episode 5--Pride and Gregorio interview the daughter of a victim who waits tables at the bar.
The Gold Mine Saloon is a drinking establishment in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] The saloon is known for creating its signature Flaming Dr. Pepper cocktail in the 1980s [2] [3] and vintage video games (e.g., the 1982 Popeye). [4] [5] [6] The patronage has been described as an avant-garde and artistic crowd.
The French Market (French: Marché français) is a market and series of commercial buildings spanning six blocks in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as a Native American trading post predating European colonization, the market is the oldest of its kind in the United States. [ 1 ]
The name French Quarter is misleading in that many of the buildings date from the late-18th century, after the two New Orleans fires of 1788 and 1794 destroyed over 80 per cent of the city.
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On April 27, 2002, Gilberto Eyzaguirre was fired from Galatoire's. Eyzaguirre had worked as a waiter at the restaurant for more than 20 years, yet was dismissed after multiple sexual harassment complaints from the staff. Eyzaguirre's firing caused a huge controversy in New Orleans due to the dissatisfaction of the regular customers.
Hotel Monteleone's Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge is the only revolving bar in New Orleans. (For a few decades, there was a rotating cocktail lounge at 2 Canal Street, overlooking the Mississippi River.) The 25-seat carousel bar turns on 2,000 large steel rollers, pulled by a chain powered by a one-quarter horsepower (190 W) motor at a constant ...
The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré (UK: /ˌvjɜː kəˈreɪ/; US: /vjə kəˈreɪ/; [4] French: [vjø kaʁe]), is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. After New Orleans ( French : Nouvelle-Orléans ) was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville , the city developed around the Vieux Carré ("Old ...