French Quarter bar owners threaten to defy midnight curfew

[struggle4progress]

By Ross Sneyd
ASSOCIATED PRESS

3:53 p.m. October 14, 2005

NEW ORLEANS – French Quarter bar owners frustrated with the slow pace of recovery in New Orleans won a partial victory Friday when the city pushed back its curfew from midnight to 2 a.m., allowing a little more partying into the wee hours.

Bars on or near Bourbon Street had been threatening to defy the midnight curfew, complaining it was putting a damper on the famously raucous neighborhood and the city's economy, too.

City Hall announced that the streets in recovering neighborhoods will be off limits to pedestrians and vehicles between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. The city put businesses on notice, however, that violators of the extended curfew could be slapped with a summons and could lose their liquor licenses. <snip>

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20051014-1553-neworleanscurfew.html

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. God Bless New Orleans!!

I'll be there for New Year's Weekend. Vieux Carre lives on!

[...of J.Temperance]

2. I fully support them

And I hope they go for it 100%...Pat O'Briens, Whiskey Blue, Tropical Isle, Johnny White's and all of them. Get the Hurricane's and Hand Grenade's flowing and rebel against the police and the authorities.

They will NEVER kill the spirit and Mardi Gras 2006 WILL happen.