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This old city has been French world since the 1690’s. The French named Bourbon St. after their royal family, the House of Bourbon.
In some mysterious way, “Bourbon” was decided upon as the moniker for whiskey, from Kentucky, crafted in oak barrels from fermented corn, the barrels disposed of after one useage. My guess is that Kentuckian distillers chose it during the 19th Century, when New Orleans was the top port of the southern United States.
It is true that New Orleans was to be the capitol city of Dixieland. The South lost the war. When a Confederate general named Richard Taylor surrendered the Confederate armies of Louisiana and other south coast states, that the night of Union ravagement in New Orleans must have looked like the scene from Gone With The Wind, the wide lens shot of the night of fires, the protagonists’ horse drawn carriage racing in fear away to a safety that was too far to reach, angered townsfolk smashing and grabbing whatever they could, forcing themselves on the Southern belles.
The southern end of the Quarter is Canal St., the eastern end The Mississippi. What the sexual brothel-ness of New Orleans takes its appeal from is its former red-light district, once known as Storyville, which closed and which moved its sex work businesses into the French Quarter. For example, there is Larry Flynt’s Barely Legal Strip Club. That is no place for a graduate student to spend his or her dime.
