Lower Decatur Street, New Orleans

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Category: Parades

St. Patty’s 2010

The 2010 St. Patrick’s Day Parade is ON! For more information, check out our St. Patty’s Day page.

Halloween 2009 Photos

This year’s Halloween Parade was a ball! Here’s a small group of pictures – hope everyone can make it back next year!

Krewe du Vieux den on fire Tuesday.

Krewe du Vieux is the best Mardi Gras parade of the season, and the only parade that rolls on Lower Decatur Street.  They may have suffered a setback for this upcoming season due to a two alarm fire at their den in the bywater.  Information is scant at the moment, but we hope losses were [...]

Molly's at the Market's Halloween Parade

It’s that time of year again..
The festivities for this year start at 10am, with the actual parade leaving Molly’s at 5:30pm. The “standard fare” of entertainment will accompany the parade, consisting of (but not limited to) a firetruck, bands, jugglers, stiltwalkers, monkeys (I wish), etc. This is the Traditional Jim Monaghan Parade.
Check it out at [...]

25th annual Irish Parade on Lower Decatur

The Times-Piccayune published this to say about the St. Patrick’s Day parade.
St. Patrick’s Day parades begin rolling Friday when Monaghan’s 25th annual Irish Parade paints the French Quarter green at 5:30 p.m., beginning and ending at Molly’s at the Market, 1107 Decatur Street. Beads and Irish-themed trinkets will be tossed to the crowds by riders [...]

Halloween Parades on Lower Decatur

Ok, everybody loves a parade, right? And everybody loves Lower Decatur, right? So, a parade on Lower Decatur is a natural, right? Well, hold on to your costumes kids, we’ve got two this year.
The first is the “666th annual Halloween Parade” leaving Flanagan’s Pub, 625 St. Phillip Street, at 10pm on Saturday, [...]

Southern Decadence does Decatur

While we had no “official” events listed on any of the “official” Southern Decadence sites, there were plenty of attendees roaming about the Lower Decatur neighborhood this weekend.

Police escort service?
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Passing the U.S. Mint
These guys were seen on thier way to the real official parade Sunday. They headed the whole sheebang up with their [...]