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Bukfan

Bukfan

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Great find, James! Congrats!
That's a great pic of Lou. So, she even became a motif on a postcard - together with Rue Royale, of course...;)
 
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1fsh2fsh

1fsh2fsh

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wow!, now that is sweet! I'm currently reading "Bohiemian New Orleans". So that is a great visual for me. very nice James.
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

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That looks great, James! I like the way you framed the Pirates Alley pic, so that the title appears separately, and the adding of the Lou pic underneath is a great idea! It's quite a large postcard too. It's a very nice combination of the two pics!

Where did you find the postcard of Lou - ebay?
 
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mjp

mjp

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I was really jealous, so I went and got my own. ;)

If you search Vieux Carre on eBay you'll find a couple more (same picture, though slightly cropped on the bottom).
 
james

james

hey, now we all got one! i had no idea there were others on ebay. i found mine by searching "gypsy lou". now i'm looking to find more old postcards of nola to frame together for my new orleans-themed room...
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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Very cool. Given that Gypsy Lou was a fixture in New Orleans in those days, she may show up in other postcards, books, magazines with street scenes. Kind of like "Where's Waldo" for bohemians.
 
HarryC13

HarryC13

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1fsh2fsh said:
wow!, now that is sweet! I'm currently reading "Bohiemian New Orleans". So that is a great visual for me. very nice James.
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Agreed, very nice, James.

1fsh2fsh, if you're reading Bohemian New Orleans, you MUST get the DVD, The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press by Wayne Ewing. (58 entertaining minutes for $19,95 at Amazon and elsewhere.) Gypsy Lou steals the show in the video, looking very spry and with it for a lady in her 90s.

By the way, Lou sent me a reply to the letter I sent her ... got it over the weekend. She said that she had a stroke two years ago and she "can't walk too good -- used to walk a lot."

She sounds like she's doing pretty well, though.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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Yes, the Gyspy Lou video is great. I gotta watch it again. It's basically a guy with a video camera following her around New Orleans while she talks to people and points out stuff, with some documentary material thrown in. Classic.
 
james

james

Rekrab said:
Yes, the Gyspy Lou video is great. I gotta watch it again. It's basically a guy with a video camera following her around New Orleans while she talks to people and points out stuff, with some documentary material thrown in. Classic.
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yep, that doc is top notch! having lived in nola for 3 years made it that much more interesting for me. i bought the loujon book by weddle but haven't gotten around to reading it yet...
 
Weddle

Weddle

I hope you enjoy the book when you get to it. And I must agree, Wayne Ewing did a fantastic job with the film!

All best,
Jeff
 
1fsh2fsh

1fsh2fsh

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I just got thru reading this a few days go (on to portions now :)) very interesting, and a very good read. man, those folks went thru a bunch of shit chasing their passions. most of it self imposed it seems to me. whatever it takes to produce art I suppose. now I just want to hold one of those books in my hands....
 
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