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6%  
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  • Resolve and Recreation Still Strong on Bourbon Street

    09/10/2005 10:38:21 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 11 replies · 508+ views
    LATimes ^ | 9-10-05 | Reed Johnson
    Somebody forgot to tell the French Quarter that this town is dead. Because the regulars at Johnny White's Sports Bar & Grill on Bourbon Street were having none of the talk about their city being the new Chernobyl, a ghost metropolis never to rise again. Even if the bureaucrats in Washington and Baton Rouge want to shut the place down and move everybody out. "It's my property. I have a right to die in my property," bartender Larry Hirst said as he served up a pair of Heinekens to two female patrons Thursday night. The politicians and disaster planners, Hirst...