Halloween on a Bourbon Street Balcony
I bought part of my Halloween costume today.
The best Halloween I’ve ever had – ever – was the Halloween we spent on Bourbon Street with Wild Bill and Sandy.
At the time Bill was in the garment business. He was a “bra and pantie man.” The guy sold bras and panties for a living. Someday I’ll have him guest blog about the first few times he was in a room with models wearing the product he was selling.
IMHO, Halloween is the BEST time to visit NOLA. We’ve never been to Mardi Gras, but I’ve seen and heard enough that I know I would not enjoy the crowds, the drunks, and the potential for crime and violence. Maybe I’ve seen too many COPS shows, but that’s the way I feel.
At Halloween, it’s the typical Saturday night Bourbon Street crowd, except everybody is dressed in costume. Being New Orleans, you everything from pregnant nuns to flashers that if real, you would ask to see it again.
The Gays dress the best. I remember one very tall and very well built man dressed as an angel. He was totally shaved with sparkly make-up all over his body and beautiful feathered wings somehow attached to his back. He tucked his business and wore tight fitting flesh colored spandex, with high heels. I’m telling you, the guy should have been in the HBO show Angels in America.
We had a room at the Best Western on Bourbon Street with balcony access so we could watch the passing parade.
Bill also secured about couple gross of sample panties.
Throwing beads? We threw panties to the crowd!
The guys immediately put them on their heads.
Thongs were most sought after and bloomers usually ended up on the ground unwanted.
What fun!
I happened to be at street level taking pictures of the crowd when this sweet young thing walked by with a cup of beer (imagine that) and Bill called from the balcony. She looked up and he proceeded to drop a thong – right in her beer cup.
She thought it was funny and asked if they were used!
Memory courtesy of Hope and Angela.
@Kelly: you didn’t address me, but throwing underwear in Barcelona sounds like fun (I clicked your name!) Are you from Barcelona?
Franklin- Have you ever been to NOLA for Mardi Gras? I’m not sure what you are talking about but I’ve never had a problem ANY year I have gone. It’s always a wild and crazy event and its why I go back year after year.
Now that’s what I’m talking about. I never understood the rage for NOLA on Mardis Gras. I mean sure it can get wild and crazy, but it brings out those people that I really don’t wanna be involve with. You are dead on though, Halloween in NOLA is where it is at. It’s just as wild without the fights, and ignorance thats comes with other NOLA events.
i went to the flea market, and why do they call it a flea market, its a market and most of the people there buying and selling most likely have fleas!
thats an interesting place to be for halloween, seeing girls in these costumes wouldnt be as rewarding considering they arent suppose to wear clothes on that street.
Thanks for the flea market update.
Yeah those street corner guys go for young blondes every time!
Funny!
Hey GLS, thanks for the plug…The French Market/Flea Market is open. They have done a lot of renovating and had a jazz celebration Sunday to kick it off…the vendors will pick up now. They are hoping to have renovations completed in early 2008, the produce area is not open yet…..
Been a lot of “Who Dat” going on as the Titans played the Saints last night.
If you watch the new show K-Ville on FOX, (New Orleans police show since Katrina), they interviewed a Mime last night on the show(silver cowboy)on Jackson Square. I actually had an encounter with him Sunday. As I walked past him he grapped my arm, scared the bejesus out of me! I screamed, I mean I SCREAMED..heads turned..then we all had a good laugh.
Hi – I liked this for starters – haven’t looked elsewhere yet. New Orleans sounds like the kind of place I could identify with – as a European, that is. The only cities in the US that I know a bit are L.A., which I deeply hate, and San Francisco, which I love.
A lot of people came by in response to my invite, but you are only the second to leave a calling card: Did the others take one look at my blog and say – no way I want this guy over at my place???
Thanks for responding. Now I’ll have a look around your patch, your permission being assumed!
Take care
94S