New Orleans Nostalgia
Ned Hémard's weekly column remembering New Orleans history, culture, and traditions.

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- 400 Rabbits, a Pig and a Whistle
- 1825-1826
- A Backbeat, You Can't Lose It
- A Big Hop Over the Ditch
- A Bon-Temps Thanksgiving
- A Broken Engagement
- A Butler Did It
- A Confederacy of Bunches
- A Dark and Stormy Night
- A Dollop of Trollope
- A Dynamic Developer
- A Family Theater Party
- A Faustian Bargain
- A List of Louies, Part 1
- A List of Louies, Part 2
- A List of Louies, Part 3
- A Lorelei Named Alice
- A Most Memorable Year
- A Moveable Feast It's Not
- A Multifaceted Gem
- A New Orleans Alphabet
- A New York Hill
- A Perfect Hubbub and Jubilee
- A Pithy Pythian Piece
- A Prairie Dog for Mr. Jefferson
- A Puff Piece
- A Remarkable Multi-Millionaire
- A Rose By Any Other Name
- A Slice of Old Metairie
- A Tale of Two Turpins
- A Tour of Tullynally
- About Trout
- Above Ground
- Absinthe and Athletics
- Absinthe Minded
- All Because of an Indian Diamond
- All About Dem Saints
- All Saints
- Almost the Greatest Show on Earth
- Alois & Aloysius
- An Abbreviated Article, Part 1
- An Abbreviated Article, Part 2
- An Ernest Objection
- April Fools' in New Orleans
- Artichokes in New Orleans
- Artist George L. Viavant and The Old Gentilly Road
- As Fate Would Have It
- Baby It's Cold Outside
- Banquettes and Baguettes
- Barbecue & Buccaneers
- Baronne & Carondelet
- Battle in the Bywater
- Bead Envy
- Beards in the Breeze
- Before A.C.
- Beignet...Done That!
- Being Thankful
- Bejeweled and Befeathered
- Betcha I Know Where You Got Dem Shoes
- Bicycles in New Orleans
- Big Apple and Big Easy
- Big Chief
- Big Shot and Big Stuff
- Bingle Baby
- Bisques and Biscuits
- Blessed are the Peacemakers
- Bob was a Shoo-Shoo
- Bonanza in the Big Easy
- Bonfires on the Bayou
- Bon Ton and Bon Temps
- Born in a New Orleans Saloon
- Bread Pudding
- Bubbles
- Burnt Offerings
- Campeachy
- Canals That Never Were
- Cartoons Through The Years, Part 1
- Cartoons Through the Years, Part 2
- Celebrating Victory
- Cha Cha Hits New Orleans
- Chalmette
- Champagne Charlie
- Championship in Kenner
- "Chancellor Livingston, I Presume"
- Changing Course
- Chantilly Lace, But No Pretty Face
- Charles and His Avenue
- Cheap Thrills
- Chili Today, Hot Tamale
- Chinaballs
- Christmas in the 50s
- Civil Suits: A Sucker Born Every Minute
- Cockroach Chronicle
- Coffee With Chicory, Part 1
- Coffee With Chicory, Part 2
- Colbert Article
- Cool and Hot
- Corn Maque Choux
- Court of Appeal
- Creole Gumbo
- Creole Mustard
- Creole Tomato
- Creolizing
- Crescent Creative City
- Dashing and Dapper
- Dear Dorothy
- De La Louisiane
- Delectable Daube
- Détours de Force
- Dingbats of New Orleans
- Distant Winds
- Divine Sarah and Eggs Sardou
- Dixie Doodles
- Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor
- Domino Effect
- Don't Paraphrase Me, Braud!
- Do You Know What It Means To Be Quarantined
- Dr. Daddy-O and Poppa Stoppa
- Dr. Nut
- Drive-Ins Did It
- Duel of Law
- Duel Personality
- Easter Joy
- Easters of the Past
- Eggs Hussarde
- Egyptian Visitors
- Eighteenth Century Etiquette
- Elegant Oakey
- Elementary, My Dear Readers
- Enfilade
- Every Memory Lingers
- Evolutionary Ideas
- Evolution of the Parkway
- Facts, Not Factoids
- Facts You Might Not Know About New Orleans
- Fashionable Finger Food
- Fascinating Facts, Part 1
- Fascinating Facts, Part 2
- Fascinating Facts, Part 3
- Fascinating Facts, Part 4
- Fateful Forecasts
- Fats Domino Goin' Home
- Favorite Things 2010
- Feisty Femmes
- Felicity's Still a Saint
- First Draft
- Flight Paths
- Flirtation
- Flotsam and Jetsam, Sneak-Boxes and Trick Bags
- Food of the Gods: Ambrosia and Nectar Soda
- Food Trucks of New Orleans
- Football in New Orleans New Year's Day, 1890
- Forgotten Texas Hero
- Former Occupations
- Fort de la Boulaye Was First
- French Foreign Lesion
- From Butchers to Brunches
- From Chalmette to the Charts
- From Humble Beginnings
- From John Boats to Carnival Floats
- From Oyster Bay to Oysters Rockefeller
- From Restaurats to Restaurants
- From Richard III to Rex
- From Tea Garden to Tea Pot
- From the Highlands to the Lowlands
- Funny Louis and Happy Jack
- Gallatin Street
- Games of Chance
- Gardenias, Magnolias and Oleanders
- Generals on Horseback
- Genteel Beginnings
- Go, Speed Racer
- Golden Age of 45s
- Golden Brown
- Gone Pecan
- Goober Peas
- Good to the Last Drip
- Grandfather of New Orleans
- Great Moments in NOLA History
- Greek Revival Roots
- Green Ribbon Backordered
- Gumbo No. 5
- Halloween in New Orleans
- Hamburger History
- Happy Folly
- Harahan History
- He Didn't Forget the Ladies
- He Fought Pakenham Twice
- He Learned from a Lighthouse Builder
- He Worked for Peanuts
- Hearts and Ashes
- Heavenly Hashtags
- Heirs Apparent
- Hello Central, Give Me Hemlock
- Henry Hobson Richardson
- Hidden Desires
- Higher Ground
- Hillary Clinton Visits New Orleans in the 1800s
- Historical Tidbits
- History of Fort Macomb
- History of the Po-Boy (Part 1)
- History of the Po-Boy (Part 2)
- History's Muse
- Hitler's Horse and Taylor's Tub
- Hor d'oeuvres of New Orleans
- Hot Air
- Hunger After Battle
- Hunting and Fishing (in and around New Orleans), 1900
- Ice and Mosquitoes
- I'd Rather be Right
- If, New Orleans Style
- I'm Not Lisa
- Independence Day, 1826
- In the Days of Straw Hats
- Interesting Observations
- Irish Mayor of New York Visits New Orleans
- Is New Orleans Feminine
- It was Fascination
- It Wouldn't Be Prudent
- It's Fall Y'all
- Jambalaya on the Bayou
- Jazz Fest Family Ties
- Jingles of New Orleans
- Jitterbug Memories
- Jockey Shorts
- Joe and Rose Kennedy at the Ball
- Julie and Julia
- Just for a Thrill
- Just So Story
- Keeping Cool in the Crescent
- King Cake and Twelfth Night
- La Belle Creole
- La Fete de la Chandeleur
- Lagniappe and Lincoln
- Land of 1000 Dances
- Lapsing Lexicon
- Last of the Bare-Knuckles
- Lee Circle Before Lee
- Lenten Observances
- Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
- Let the Four Winds Blow
- Let Them Eat Brioche
- Life's No Fête Champêtre
- Like Red Beans on Rice
- Li'l Liza Jane
- Lincoln and a Louisiana Lemon
- Lincoln Law and Loving Laure
- Lost an Election
- Lost and Found
- Louis Paulhan, King of the Air
- Love, Oh Love, Oh Careless Love
- Lusher Lore
- Lustrous Leap Year
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen
- Madame Langlois, Fact or Fiction?
- Madison Drawing Room
- Magic Moments
- Mardi Gras Gangnam Style
- Mardi Gras Memories
- Mardi Gras Miscellany
- Mardi Gras Miscellany, Part Deux
- Mardi Gras Miscellany, Part Trois
- Market Commentary
- Marshals in Our Midsts
- Matilda Geddings Gray and Evergreen Plantation
- Medical Charges
- Meet Me in St. Louis, Louisiana
- Men in Tights
- Mercers and Pattons
- Milk with a Punch
- Mint Condition
- Minit Made
- Monica Monica and more Monica
- Monkey Business
- Montparnasse of New Orleans
- Morgus for Mayor
- Mormon Memories
- Mouse Practice and Mirlitons
- Mousquetaires and Mouseketeers
- Mules, Tigers, Waffles and Taffy
- My Daughter, the Doctor
- My Favorite New Orleans Things
- My Spy Boy
- Nashville and New Orleans
- New Orleanians Hate to Leave
- New Orleans ABCs
- New Orleans 1956
- New Orleans Homonyms
- New Orleans in 1810
- New Orleans in 1849
- New Orleans in 1867
- New Orleans in 1956
- New Orleans is From Mars
- New Orleans Love Songs
- New Orleans Night Before Christmas
- New Orleans' Own Shirley
- New Orleans Piano
- New Orleans Rites of Spring
- New Orleans' Title to Albania
- New Orleans, "You're The Top!"
- New Suits and Clothing Customs
- Nights in White Linen
- Noble Drummer
- Nolagisms
- Nolagisms II
- Not All Napoleonic Street Names Were Victories
- Notary of Note
- Obituary Cocktail Lounge ... and So Much More
- Odd Bits
- Odds and Ends
- Ode to Oktoberfest
- Offbeat Backstories
- Ojen Update
- Old Levee Street
- Once Important Factors
- Optimism, Beauty and Talent
- Oyster Dressing and Oyster Patties
- Paris Fashions
- Passing Through New Orleans
- Parterre Gardens
- Patois and Petticoats
- Philanthropic Miser
- Pickle Meat
- Pirated Ideas
- Platonic Memories
- Poetic License
- Portrait of Bienville
- Pretty Women
- Prince of the Two Sicilies
- Profiles in Clay
- Prohibition in New Orleans
- Propriety of the Past
- Proud Pilothouses
- Provincialism
- Quite a Flap
- Quotable New Orleans, Part 1
- Quotable New Orleans, Part 2
- Quotable New Orleans, Part 3
- Quotable New Orleans, Part 4
- Quotable New Orleans, Part 5
- Quotable New Orleans, Part 6
- Quotable New Orleans, Part 7
- Rah-Rahs, Rhonda, Remoulade and Roux
- Rambo's Role
- Random Reveries of New Orleans
- Redfish Court Bouillon
- Reinvigorated
- Réveillon Dinners
- Revolutionary Financiers
- Risqué Rhythms
- Rochambeau, Robespierre and Talleyrand
- Rocket Town
- Romance of the Milky Way
- Roosevelt Returns
- Rosa Park
- Rosecliff
- Rosedale
- Royal Antiquities
- Royal Gumbo
- Rumbullion
- Saint Louis and the Red Mass
- Saint Tammany, the Affable Parish
- Saintly Symbol
- Saints That Ain't
- Saucy and Headstrong
- Sauvolle, Man of Mystery
- Scandal in Bohemia
- Second Line
- See You Later, Alligator
- Shaken, not Stirred
- Shakespeare in New Orleans
- Shall We Dance
- She Had a Gimmick
- Sir Thomas Lipton
- Skating Through History
- Souffle Potatoes
- Sounds of Summer, New Orleans Style
- Sousa's Legacy
- Sporting Life
- St. Claude and Dumaine
- St. Francisville and the Felicianas
- St. Joe and St. Pat
- Saint Patrick's Day in New Orleans, 1805
- Stable Master's Daughter
- State Funerals
- Strange, But True
- Strange But True, Part 2
- Strange, But True, Part 3
- Street Names of New Orleans
- SuperBowl XLVII
- Sweet New Orleans Delights
- Sweetheart of New Orleans
- Taft Visits New Orleans
- Tain't It the Truth
- Ten Flags Over Louisiana
- Terry and Carol Sue
- Thanks for the Memory
- The $64,000 Question
- The Beatles Visit New Orleans and A Nightingale Sang in Jackson Square
- The Bienville Bi-Centennial
- The Birthplace of "Dixie"
- The Blind Men and New Orleans
- The Blue Book From the Red Light District
- The Borgne Identity
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The Champs-Élysées
- The Chic of Arabi
- The Chic of Arabi Part II
- The Creole Virtues
- The Crescent City
- The Cup, the Cap and the Cupola
- The Devil is in the Details
- The End of the World
- The Floating Palace
- The French 75
- The Lady of the Lighthouse
- The Lady with the Sword
- The Long, Hot Summer of 1958
- The Mayors of New Orleans
- The Men With The Red Umbrellas
- The Mexican Connection
- The New Orleans Jump
- The Obelisk with the Odd Insciption
- The Original Nine Muses
- The Pride and Sorrow of Chess
- The Prince and the Debutante
- The Railroad Baron Who Actually Was One
- The Scent of a New Orleans Woman
- The Stores With "K" Have Gone Away
- The Sweet Bell Gal
- The Things That I Used To Do
- The Ursulines and Our Lady of Prompt Succor
- They All Taxed For You
- They Say It's Spring
- Three Municipalities
- Throw Me Somethin'
- Throw Me Somethin' 2
- Ties That Bind
- Tontis, Cadillacs and Chevrolets
- Too Marva-lous For Words
- Trails of the Cocktail
- Trails of the Cocktail, Part 2
- Trouble, Right Here in the River City
- Trousers in New Orleans
- True Bohemian Rhapsody
- Turning on Dufossat
- Twelfth Night
- Two Cities of Light
- Two Fallen Soldiers
- Two Gifted Guides
- Two Masterful Mixologists
- Two Square Guys
- Two To Tango
- Uncle Sam in New Orleans
- Universal Acclaim
- Unusual Origins
- Un Peu de Tout
- Up on the Azotea
- Valentine Delivery
- Vignettes of Interest
- Vitascope Hall
- Vox Populi
- Washington's Carriage in New Orleans
- Wedded Bliss
- Well-Fed Writers
- Well-heeled City
- What's in a Name
- What is Love?
- When Blue Turns to Red
- When General Pershing Took Berlin
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South
- When Liberty Came to Town
- When the Moon Hits Your Eye…Or Pizzas of the Past in New Orleans
- When to Wear White
- Whip It
- Whiskey and Disorder
- William Ratcliffe Irby
- Winnipeg to New Orleans
- Winter's Here
- Wisdom of the Ages
- Wish You Were Here
- Withering Heights
- Worst Mardi Gras Ever
- Yazoo, No. Swanee, Yes. Bananas and How!
- You Had to Ax
- You Know You're From New Orleans
- Zorro Rides Again