GREATEST DIVE BAR ON THE PLANET

RIP O'Neil Broyard, its late original proprietor, and our good friend.

Saturn Bar

O'Neil Broyard, its late original proprietor, made the Saturn Bar a St. Claude Avenue landmark as much for its eccentricities as for its cold beer and cheap liquor. For more than 40 years, his singular taste and hoarders' zeal filled the corner tavern with quirky odds and ends, including leopard-print velour booths, neon signs from bygone businesses and a vast collection of strange art, such as the dark and compelling paintings of bar regular Michael Frolich, full of red skies, spidery trees and leering demons.

After Broyard's death in 2005, his nephew Eric and Eric's then-teenage daughter Bailee excavated the bar's junk pile, keeping the odd charm (the art still hangs, a mural of the planet Saturn still graces the ceiling, the springs in the leopard banquettes are still broken and a friendly cat still strolls between glasses and bottles on the bar), but freeing up the back room for live music.

Most weekend nights (and some weekdays) Bailee Broyard books an eclectic roster of local and touring acts, from the sea-shanty singing Valparaiso Mens' Chorus to blues, garage, punk and metal. It also is the new home of the wildly popular all-45-RPM vinyl Mod Dance Party DJ night, which keeps the dancefloor twisting and shimmying 'til sunrise one Saturday a month.

Tip: Pick up one of the bar’s iconic calendars as a souvenir.

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Venue information: 3067 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans LA

ST. ROCH MARKET

ESTABLISHED 1875 -- REBORN EARLY 21ST CENTURY

St. Roch Market is a southern food hall featuring a diverse lineup of food and beverage purveyors.

Open daily, we offer a unique dining experience along with great shopping and an excellent craft cocktail bar. 

For entrepreneurs, the Market represents the ultimate platform to grow a food brand and build consumer exposure.

http://www.strochmarket.com/ 

HOLT CEMETERY

FINAL RESTING PLACE OF BUDDY BOLDEN

Holt Cemetery is a potter's field next to Delgado Community College in New Orleans.

It is behind the right field fence of the school's baseball facility, Kirsch-Rooney Stadium.

The Cemetery is named after Dr. Joseph Holt, an official of the City Board of Health (famously involved with city health issues concerning Storyville, the Red Light District of New Orleans) who officially established the cemetery in the 19th century.

The cemetery was established in 1879 to inter the bodies of poorer residents, and was frequently used due to allowing funerals to proceed around, rather than through, the city; it was expanded in 1909.

 It contains 99% in-ground burials.

The cemetery contains the remains of known and unknown early blues and jazz musicians, including Jessie Hill and Charles "Buddy" Bolden.

Bolden was an African-American cornetist regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music, or Jass, which later came to be known as jazz.

ALGIERS, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

ABOVE GROUND CEMETERY UNDER BRIDGE ACROSS MISSISSIPPI RIVER

Algiers is one of the oldest neighborhoods in New Orleans and the only Orleans Parish community located on the West Bank of the Mississippi River. 

Algiers is also known as the 15th Ward, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS STREET CARS

 ST. CHARLES LINE

HISTORIC, BUT SADLY, NOT WHEELCHAIR-ACCESSIBLE

MAGAZINE STREET

Magazine Street is six miles with a distinctly unique flair

Visually, the street offers an abundance of historic buildings from mansions, (now housing elegant bed & breakfasts or single family homes) to Victorian row houses, some residential, some art galleries, some local shops; to a renovated bus barn, converted to a neighborhood grocery.

Magazine Street is Main Street USA in true New Orleans style, offering an array of experiences with incredible flavor.

While you will find a few national brands, locally owned businesses are the norm.

Unique boutiques, top chefs, arts studios, and markets have been popping up along this exceptional thoroughfare since the early days of New Orleans.

The downriver end of Magazine Street is at Canal Street; on the other side of Canal Street in the French Quater the street becomes Decatur Street.

From Canal through the CBD and Lower Garden District, Magazine Street is one-way in the upriver direction; downriver traffic forks to join Camp Street, the next street away from the river.

 Above Felicity Street to the far Uptown end it has a lane of traffic going in both directions with parking on both sides.

The street follows the length of the crescent through Uptown,

After several miles of residential and commercial neighborhoods, it cuts through Audubon Park with its zoo on the river side of the street.

The far upper end of the street is at Leake Avenue, a part of the Great River Road, where it turns away from the river in the Carrollton riverbend.

FROM THE PLUSURBIA DESIGN FAMILY TO YOURS

HAPPY HOLIDAYS + HAPPY NEW YEAR