New Orleans Escorts: Jazz, Cocktails and Storyville panel fascinates the crowd at Tales …
July 10, 2009
Parlor houses didn’t have rowdy brass bands, as played in the streets; they had sophisticated piano players, such as Jelly Roll Morton. And everybody, including Louis Armstrong when he had enough money to buy a record player, had Caruso records and listened to the famous opera star, the first to ever sell a million recordings.
The group at the event also received another two cocktails to sip, including a fine Ramos gin fizz.
“The Ramos gin fizz was a tourist attraction,” McMillian said. “People would go to his bar to have Henry Ramos make them a gin fizz.” The famous bartender got peevish in his old age and limited his hours, he added.
Areas of prostitution existed in every town in America in the Victorian area, the panelists said. Storyville was the biggest one.
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