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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by olddog75 View Post
    We had time off during 1971-75 at Tech.
    I was there from 1965-1969. No Mardi Gras holiday then.

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by Houston Techsan View Post
    I was there from 1965-1969. No Mardi Gras holiday then.
    And all the computers were made of wood! And we liked it too!

    Now get off my lawn ya punks!

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    So what's wrong with an abacus?


    Oh...I bet you were talking about those high tech slide rule things.

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    I'll have you know my slide rule was modern plastic.

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by Bearpaw View Post
    Hmmm, I could understand Wednesday, but the Thursday and Friday after Ash Wednesday as well!? Maybe Thursday so people could return from recovering on Wednesday...
    I know some business people who will go into the office on Thursday and Friday but will take vacation days the Thursday and Friday prior to Mardi Gras instead.

    The Thursday night parades have become big draws. Some consider Muses a SuperKrewe. Then in the past few years, Nyx, which rolls on Wednesday night, has gotten so big some now consider it a SuperKrewe. It will roll this year with nearly 2,500 riders. Both are female Krewes.

    Both parades roll on the Uptown Route, down St. Charles Avenue.

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by The Historian View Post
    I know some business people who will go into the office on Thursday and Friday but will take vacation days the Thursday and Friday prior to Mardi Gras instead.

    The Thursday night parades have become big draws. Some consider Muses a SuperKrewe. Then in the past few years, Nyx, which rolls on Wednesday night, has gotten so big some now consider it a SuperKrewe. It will roll this year with nearly 2,500 riders. Both are female Krewes.

    Both parades roll on the Uptown Route, down St. Charles Avenue.
    Hmmm, ok, I'd been to Mardi Gras in New Orleans once during my Freshman year, and we left Wednesday morning because class started again Thursday at Tech. I didn't realize they still had parades after midnight between Mardi Gras day and Ash Wednesday

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by qng001 View Post
    Yup, I would loved to march a Mardi Gras parade down in the NOLA area back when I was in college. We marched the one in Monroe in 2000. We blasted the fight song through a ULM crowd on the parade route, they booed us.
    I marched in several Mardi Gras parades back in the day. Without a band. Or a float. Or a ride. I'm sure you get the picture.

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by Bearpaw View Post
    Hmmm, ok, I'd been to Mardi Gras in New Orleans once during my Freshman year, and we left Wednesday morning because class started again Thursday at Tech. I didn't realize they still had parades after midnight between Mardi Gras day and Ash Wednesday
    That's all the week before.

    What he's trying to say is that the days before Samedi Gras have gotten big. Used to be the big draws were all Saturday night and Sunday, now it's stretching further back to Thursday and Wednesday.

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by HogDawg View Post
    I marched in several Mardi Gras parades back in the day. Without a band. Or a float. Or a ride. I'm sure you get the picture.
    A Pete Fountain-isc Half-fast Bar Crawl, in most cases, is not a parade!

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by tenacious_dog View Post
    A Pete Fountain-isc Half-fast Bar Crawl, in most cases, is not a parade!
    I did the Pete Fountain Half-fast Marching Club thingy several times. Was the guest of a business associate. It was....interesting, and tons of fun!

    BTW, my son is in the Krewe of Endymion. My wife and I get the best possible duty...we get to have his three young-uns for the weekend. Yes, it's true. Ole Dawg80, the ultimate party animal! is now content to babysit grandchildren. As Maxwell Smart would say, "And...loving it!"

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by tenacious_dog View Post
    A Pete Fountain-isc Half-fast Bar Crawl, in most cases, is not a parade!

    ........NOOOOW you tell me....

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by tenacious_dog View Post
    A Pete Fountain-isc Half-fast Bar Crawl, in most cases, is not a parade!
    Quote Originally Posted by HogDawg View Post
    ........NOOOOW you tell me....
    Bro, I'm just telling ya what the NOPD told me.

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Quote Originally Posted by LATechBanjo View Post
    That's all the week before.
    Correct. If we reference Thursday or Friday night parades it's all prior to Fat Tuesday.

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    BTW, the Mid-City Parade used to host the "battle of the bands," way back in the '60's and into the early '70's. My parents, thru their business connections, would get free tix some years to sit in the bleachers where each band would stop and perform, in front of judges. I remember seeing Bama's Band known then as "the Million Dollar Band". LSU, of course, plus many other schools, some SEC schools, would have their band there.

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    Re: Tech band gonna march in NOLA Mardi Gras Parade Feb. 26

    Also regarding the parade itself. Although this is the Krewe of Mid City it no longer parades in Mid City. It uses the extended uptown route from Magazine to Napoleon, and then St. Charles down into the Warehouse District and the CBD to Canal.

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