Tourist attraction
Mardi Gras World
1380 Port of New Orleans Pl, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
Working float warehouse beside the river, where a giant fire-breathing sea serpent sleeps between parades.
This guide to Mardi Gras World in New Orleans starts beside Leviathan, a sea serpent built to breathe smoke over Lundi Gras crowds, and traces it back to master float builder Blaine Kern and the Krewe of Orpheus, the parading club Harry Connick Jr., his father, and a friend founded to put music ahead of old mythology. You'll hear how Kern's studio kept churning out hundreds of floats a season rather than scrapping them. Listen for how this riverside warehouse doubles as the serpent's home for the other three hundred sixty days of the year.
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