View Full Version : Nola St Patrick's Parade
When and where is this? Someone said it's tomorrow but didn't know time or place.
tome811
03-12-2004, 03:14 PM
When I lived there, it was always on a Sunday and went from Severn near the service Rd. to Metairie Rd. and down Metairie Rd. to somewhere towards City Park.
bayougirl
03-12-2004, 04:23 PM
Zuzu,
The one we're suppose to go to goes down Metairie Road. We will probably catch it either by Rummel High or near the Causeway underpass on Metairie Road. Wanna go with us?
LessPaull
03-12-2004, 04:58 PM
St Pattys Day In The French Quarter ????
NY DREAMER
03-12-2004, 05:08 PM
Must be a blast!!!:D
chinarain62
03-12-2004, 05:15 PM
Shit - NOLA got an excuse for a parade or festival for every occassion you can imagine!
Too freakin' cool!
:cool:
NY DREAMER
03-12-2004, 05:18 PM
I am telling you! They party for tomato's, strawberries, crawfish,and I am sure lots more things I don't even know about as I am a Northerner!! I love that town I wonder if I can talk my hubby into moving!!:p
OU812
03-12-2004, 05:20 PM
nola people want to move to NY and NY people want to move NOLA
NY DREAMER
03-12-2004, 05:22 PM
The grass is always greener huh?!?!
macca
03-12-2004, 05:40 PM
Originally posted by NY DREAMER
I am telling you! They party for tomato's, strawberries, crawfish,and I am sure lots more things I don't even know about as I am a Northerner!! I love that town I wonder if I can talk my hubby into moving!!:p
Its funny....Richard Pryor cracked a joke in one of his concerts......"you people down here need NO excuse for a party....ya'll dance at funerals. You can walk outside and say....hey, the sun is shining and start dancin' down the street".
The next time they publish the festival schedule...I need to save it. In a month or so, there's a festival every weekend somewhere in the state.
Dreamer.....can you live without the snow....?
love2sing
03-12-2004, 05:55 PM
I can live without snow. I hate winter! Thank goodness it's coming to an end. The grass is just as green here. it just gets mowed less, we can console ourselves with that fact while we're shoveling
Originally posted by OU812
nola people want to move to NY and NY people want to move NOLA
I have no desire to live anywhere but NOLA but I do love visiting NY
GuitarPLYR
03-12-2004, 07:03 PM
Don't forget about the Irish-Italian Parade the day after the Zebra show. March 21st. That parade is a blast!
CarlW53
03-12-2004, 07:08 PM
Im going to handle the Chalmette parade and represent the Board.
55 floats in that parade. How crazy is that?????
Takin care of the Parish.
tome811
03-12-2004, 07:30 PM
Originally posted by NY DREAMER
The grass is always greener huh?!?!
Not really. It's a LOT yellower down the alleys and behind the dumpsters!:D
LessPaull
03-12-2004, 10:01 PM
Originally posted by OU812
nola people want to move to NY and NY people want to move NOLA
"SHUT-UP !!! STUPID !!"
OU812
03-15-2004, 12:10 AM
Originally posted by LessPaull
I AM A PIG **** CAUSE I SAY SHIT LIKE THIS
"SHUT-UP !!! STUPID !!"
bayougirl
03-15-2004, 10:13 AM
Well Zuzu, did you ever get to the parade yesterday? We never heard from you anymore.
We were there, caught lots of beads, cabbage, onions, potatoes, carrots, cups, moon pies, Ramen. I'm smothering some cabbage tonight for supper. YUMMY.
We all need to go to the parade next Sunday too. Bring our northern friends and show what it's all about.
How about everyone meeting by Houston's to catch it? Or Danny, don't you know a place we can all go on Vet's?
NOLA Members?
I wound up next to 3 little bitty old ladies who taught me how to "get the groceries" so I have a big cabbage bag in my trunk to take to my Grandma who won't believe that they throw that stuff! I talked some float riders out of some premium beads and got another leprachaun doll - I really racked up Saturday though. I got LSU beads, alot of dolls and really good Irish beads and I loaded everyone at work up with them this morning - but I saved the best for my baby bro!
Here's my parade experience from Sunday in kind of essay form:
At the Saturday night shindig at Moe's Pizza in Westwego, Louisiana, I was given explicit directions to meet up for the parade on Sunday at Father Rummel High School. Being new to New Orleans, every time I find a new place it is quite a victory. I was getting a little overly-confident about driving. Even though I knew I-10 Westbound was closed for the weekend, I didn't take the traffic detour into consideration and piddled around my new apartment on Carondelet Street too long. Once I got on Airline Highway the traffic stopped! I sat through some traffic lights 3 and 4 times without moving even a car length! Listening to some of the other drivers screaming curse words and shooting the bird to each other was a certain amount of amusement and diversion but I was getting grumpy and the flower ringlet I had worn on my head was threatening to wilt. By the time I got to Causeway I was amazed to find I had no idea where to go after all so I found a parking place on a frontage road and hiked to the parade. I wound up standing near 3 little old ladies. And I mean little bitty and old! They had to be related - unless they were all in the same munchkin club. They were all wearing windsuits and had grandmotherly little white hairstyles. They were absolutely adorable until I got in front of the barricade and stood (thoughtfully, in my opinion, not in front of them), a little close to where they, on tippy-toes, were working the float riders for premium beads and other goodies. I was not asked, but flat out told to move down so down I went, downwind of their little short arms and sweet smiles (soft little grandma sweetness over iron), and watched them in action. They got more good loot than the most precious child there - no one could resist their charms - the rare occasion when someone passed them over to hand a leprachaun doll to said precious child, the 3 itty bitties would huddle together and discuss what a "turd head" that float rider was. I noticed they had two huge mesh bags full of cabbage heads, turnips, potatoes, corn, carrots, cucumbers and onions they had begged off the floats. I made the comment that I thought those were things to be avoided from the float riders and they all 3 looked at me as if I had just landed in their kitchen straight from Mars! They commenced to telling me why and how to get the precious veggies and soon they were handing me cabbages and I was handing them the fancier beads, literally jumping to take them before rebel flag-waving, unshaven, bloodshot-eyed, undershirt-only wearing rednecks sloshing green beer around could catch them. After a while it started to drizzle and I as I gathered my loot, the 3 diehards who had no intention of breaking early, admonished me to "toughen up", and filled a plastic Sav-A-Center grocery bag with an assortment of veggies with instructions on boiling them with seasoning. As I walked away I turned back just in time to see one of the little darlings call out "Turd Head!" to one of the float riders and I grinned all the way back to my car while the flowers in the ringlet on my head flattened as the rain came down harder.
zebrachikodoom
03-15-2004, 01:31 PM
I love that town I wonder if I can talk my hubby into moving!!:p
me too
i'm actually looking in to it, long island is too expensive
Originally posted by zebrachikodoom
I love that town I wonder if I can talk my hubby into moving!!:p
me too
i'm actually looking in to it, long island is too expensive
Make sure you check it out in the middle of the summer - August or September are the worst to make sure you can stand the humidity/mosquitos/bad hair days/rampaging crime worsened by heat/high taxes, etc... then if you can stand all that you'll love it!!
chinarain62
03-15-2004, 02:38 PM
Really??? You really thinking about moving???
zebrachikodoom
03-15-2004, 03:03 PM
i'm just thinking about it, i'm not sure yet but it is really expensive here
NY DREAMER
03-15-2004, 03:17 PM
Hey what is up with them throwing all those veggies at you? Do they throw Corn beef so you get a free meal at the end of the day? Please tell me what the point to this is? Or is there no point you just have fun throwing things at people?!:D I wonder what would happen if we did that in New Yorks St Pattys day parade?!
tome811
03-15-2004, 04:15 PM
Originally posted by HoleyMother
The cost of living is definitely cheaper here, but the flip side to that coin is that you generally earn less here also. Do your research before moving and make sure that you can find a job that pays enough to support the lifestyle you're used to. Heating bills in the winter are small, but the cooling bills in the spring/summer/fall are pretty fat.
Them electric bills are pretty good sized. Even more so when you don't have a good A/C unit and it runs forever! When I moved to Houston in '94, the apt. I had, had a bad A/C(it wasn't bad at the beginning). It would come on at about 1 or 2pm and run non-stop 'till about 10 or 11pm.
Another side of the N'awlins coin is the flooding. That's always gonna be a problem there. And a lot of people head out whenever a big hurricane's heading in. Always a chance that the city will go under water completely!:eek:
Originally posted by HoleyMother
Do you know that already two people have asked me where I got my Mo's Pizza "Italians Do It Better" T-shirt, because they want one for the Irish/Italian parade next weekend!
OH YEAH! Got to wear that to the parade on Sunday!! I wish I hadn't gotten mine so big to sleep in - I'll just roll up the sleeves!
I have a little Irish and Lord knows I've dated enough Italians to qualify as one - ha!
Originally posted by tome811
Them electric bills are pretty good sized. Even more so when you don't have a good A/C unit and it runs forever! When I moved to Houston in '94, the apt. I had, had a bad A/C(it wasn't bad at the beginning). It would come on at about 1 or 2pm and run non-stop 'till about 10 or 11pm.
Another side of the N'awlins coin is the flooding. That's always gonna be a problem there. And a lot of people head out whenever a big hurricane's heading in. Always a chance that the city will go under water completely!:eek:
There is far more air conditioner-running weather than not down here. And do you really think it's cheaper here? The sales taxes, etc. are high, no one can afford to buy housing in the city except in crack neighborhoods and the formosan termites eat all the wood in the city. It won't take a hurricane to pull NOLA down, those damned termites will eventually do it. And you better have a car in extra good condition that doesn't overheat.
But it's fun if you're young and dumb or middle-aged and dumb like me!
NY DREAMER
03-15-2004, 05:40 PM
Now ZuZu don't be so hard on yourself girl!! You are one smart chick in search of a new enviroment! :D
rushtrader
03-15-2004, 06:42 PM
The "poverty line" on Long Island for a family of 4 is roughly $60,000. A family of 4 making that much can buy clothes, rent, make a car payment, afford gas, food and that's about it.
A 1400 sq ft house on 1/8 acre runs about $300k with property taxes around $4500. A 2500 sq ft house on 1/4 acre runs near a half million with $8500-$10,000 annual taxes.
NY State has state income taxes and sales tax is 8.75%.
If you want to move to Long Island, buy a nice house (not a great one) and life comfortably (make all your bills, be able to take a vacation every year with your kids, have 2 cars less than 6 years old, maybe put away a little money) you need to have an income well into 6 figures (125k at least), and that's assuming you have the 15-20% ($75,000 - $100,000) to put down on the house.
Also remember that Long Island in in the top 5 most expensive electricity pricing areas in the world! Expect to pay about $150-$250 each for oil and electric each month.
What are the comparable numbers in LA?
RT
chinarain62
03-15-2004, 07:29 PM
Originally posted by zebrachikodoom
i'm just thinking about it, i'm not sure yet but it is really expensive here
It's expensive pretty much every where - like HM said - there's always one trade off for another - low heat bills - high A/C bill...
Same in FLA....houses are cheaper, jobs pay less, you have to be careful of the ara you live in, food prices are like in the NE etc. etc....
Sometimes ya just gotta be thankful you have a roof over your head and a job in today's econony - the grass isn't always greener even in NOLA!
tome811
03-15-2004, 07:35 PM
Originally posted by chinarain62
- the grass isn't always greener even in NOLA!
Yeah, I already said, it's yellower, especially all around the parade routes!
chinarain62
03-15-2004, 07:36 PM
Originally posted by tome811
Yeah, I already said, it's yellower, especially all around the parade routes!
Now THAT's funny!!! LOL:D
Especially after Earl's been on the parade route!
chinarain62
03-16-2004, 10:16 AM
LAMO!:D
macca
03-16-2004, 10:20 AM
Zuzu,
You gotta watch those parade veterans, a vicous bunch. As far as telling me to move.....would have had to tell them where to get off ----old grouchy bastards!(or bitches in this instance)
Macca,
I imagine by next year's carnival, etc. I'll be much tougher but I find that when I mosey up to a stopped float and let my Mississippi accent shine through I can ask for what I want and usually get it - it even works sometimes with the women on the floats - especially Shangri-La and Iris parades - I can't wait for Muses next year as a real resident! After distributing my mardi gras beads that I caught by myself to everyone here who wanted some, sent some to cousin's children, etc... I still brought two bags - the biggest bags that the Mardi Gras Annex stores carried, plus a huge Nine West shopping bag full of beads - so heavy only one bag at a time could be carried - to an orphanage here that had asked for some. Of course I had to make sure all the liquor-advertising ones were removed but my redneck brother wanted those anyway- along with over 100 plastic cups that I caught - ha! The ladies of Iris gave me some that I gave to my mother and grandma and Grandma has declared that she is wearing one of them with her new Easter dress!! The Shangri-La ladies were especially generous because I was wearing my NYPD hooded sweatshirt! I did let the "king" of Krewe of Cork touch the sewn-on badge on my sweatshirt that day while the parade was stopped and shared a Rolling Rock with him and he proceeded to hand over several strands of the good stuff with price tags still attached - most were $8.99 each! Naturally, I saved the best. It was good to see the baby girls in midriffs weren't the only ones getting stuff!!
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