Frenchmen Street

This guide to Frenchmen Street in New Orleans starts with the street's name itself, honoring six French Creole men executed in 1769 for rebelling against Spanish rule, and the two quiet centuries that followed in the Faubourg Marigny. It follows Alan Langhoff, who in the mid-1970s bought a storefront wrecked years earlier by Hurricane Betsy and reopened it as the Dream Palace, with a swirling ceiling mural painted in 1977 by an artist named Rain Webb. Listen for how that one battered building pulled the rest of the block into its orbit.