In many ways, New Orleans’ first major night of Carnival parades after the deadly New Year's vehicle attack on Bourbon Street looked the same as any other. Kids played football on the streetcar tracks; vendors hawked corn dogs and lemonade and Professor Longhair blasted from sound systems.

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"We danced, we talked, we laughed, we danced some more. He watched me take a shot and immediately throw it up (we’ve all been there), and then he brought me water. It was in that moment that I think I fell for him.

According to Carnival historian and Mardi Gras Guide founder Arthur Hardy, the city’s first organized parading organization, the Mistick Krewe of Comus, was also the first to have one of its parades featured in a printed bulletin.