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2 unusual facts about Bourbon Street


Bourbon Street

This changed in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when the Storyville Red Light district was constructed on Basin Street adjacent to the French Quarter .

Tourism in Memphis, Tennessee

In 2008, Beale Street is the most visited tourist attraction in the state of Tennessee, and considered to be the second busiest street in the southern United States, behind only Bourbon Street in New Orleans.


Étouffée

Around 1983 a waiter at a popular Bourbon Street restaurant Galatoire's brought the crawfish étouffée dish in to his boss to try, at the time most of the food in New Orleans was French Creole but this Cajun dish was a hit.


see also

Jeff Seeman

He wrote the screenplay for the 2009 film American Virgin (previously Virgin on Bourbon Street), starring Rob Schneider and Jenna Dewan, and directed by Claire Kilner.

Straitjacket

On Mindfreak, Criss Angel set a world record when he escaped from 2 straitjackets at once while hanging from a crane over Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

Willie Tee

In the late 1960s, Willie Tee & the Souls played venues from the Apollo Theater in Harlem to the Ivanhoe on Bourbon Street.