Location, location

Ms. Mae's on Napoleon and Magazine. Photo by Kayann

They say that places have memories...a building holds all of the events of the past in ghost-like fashion. Stand in the middle of an empty, gutted out building, close your eyes, and you can get a sense of the people and things that have been before.

I've composed a list of places in New Orleans that have been a part of my life. Add some of your own in comments.

1. I danced to the Talking Heads at Andy Capps on Carrollton wearing a beret and Madonna lace gloves (does this show my age)
2. Whilst studying Literature at Loyola, I played pool at the OLD Ms. Mae's, where most nights you could occasionally get a glimpse of the portly bird herself
3. Speaking of Loyola, Touchdown Jesus?
4. My Aunt Velma took the bus every Saturday from Esplanade and Broad to Carrollton and Canal to get her hair done at Antionette's
5. I saved up all week just to get a burger at Snug Harbor
6. I remember Until Waiting Fills
7. I started working at the Windsor Court Hotel as a cocktail waitress in the 1984 (the year it opened). After, we would walk down to the World's Fair to hear the Nevilles.
8. Saw Nathan and the Zyedco Cha-Chas on a Friday night at the Rock and Bowl, then danced to them the following night at Richard and Jennifer's wedding.
9. Got kicked out of a Pool Bar on Tchoupitoulas because one of us was black.
10. Our family attorney, Corwin B. Reed, took me to Ruth's Chris Steak House the night I graduated from Loyola
11. I got married at the Golden Spaceship on St. Charles.
12. I remember three-for-one Tuesdays at Que Sera...barely.
13. Charlie's Steak House off Napoleon anyone?
14. Studying at PJ's on Maple (the old one on the other side of the road).
15. Spinach bread from My Daily Bread on St. Charles
16. Drinking daiquiris and eating cheese curly fries at Daiquiris at the River Bend after school. Did we drive after? I'm embarrassed to say, yes.
17. Camellia Grill
18. My Uncle Cleave put three kids through college slinging coffee at Cafe Du Monde.
19. Eating Manuel's Hot Tamales and drinking beer on the lakefront.
20. Getting drunk on mint juleps at the Columns Hotel in the middle of a hurricane.