Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bourbon Street bounced back within months of the catastrophe, and a strip club on the street was among the first businesses to reopen, serving relief workers and policemen...
...Bourbon Street’s siren’s call was hard to ignore. If the students needed to witness the widely-reported destruction in the Ninth Ward, they also needed to see the legendary lane...
...Bourbon Street symbolizes much of what tourists knew to be New Orleans prior to Katrina. Outsiders thought of the city in terms of Mardi Gras beads and jazz, and this tourist hub was quick to provide the goods even after the storm. Though slightly less crowded now, the neon stretch still glows, populated by conventioneers and college students...
...Though extraordinary damage had swept over much of the city, Bourbon Street, which remained relatively unscathed by the flooding, offered the volunteers a taste of happier times...
...Bourbon Street didn’t demand the kind of manual labor performed in devastated neighborhoods. Still, supporting Bourbon Street was another way for the students to sustain New Orleans. Tourism drew $5 billion of spending to New Orleans in 2004, and the Big Easy will need many of those visitors if it is to rise again...