New Orleans Mardi Gras 1941 in color


It is almost Mardi Gras time again in New Orleans elsewhere.This film takes us back to Mardi Gras 1941 and is in living color. This was the first year a female krewe paraded (Venus) and was the last celebration until after the war. The hot Dixie jazz is provided by George Lewis Johnny Dodds. So Bon Temps Roule! We have some other Mardi Gras videos for you to enjoy; www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com We have now added a second clip of vintage Mardi Gras celebration: Early …

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25 Responses to “New Orleans Mardi Gras 1941 in color”

  1. Yehyaright Says:

    love your post.

    I miss home too! Can you tell what part of town this was filmed in?

  2. MindsiMedia Says:

    It’s a sad fact of life that we live on a planet composed of highly evolved people who through self discipline try to raise themselves up.And lazy people who take comfort in debasement and corruption. They respond to fear and anger and are always looking for someone else to blame for their lot. More sad than scary.

  3. MindsiMedia Says:

    Thamls for watching.

  4. garyworkman Says:

    Isn’t that the truth. I can’t read these post without feeling like this country is raising a generation of imbeciles. It’s really depressing we could sink to this level of discourse this quickly. Does anyone else find this scary?

  5. Mindsi2 Says:

    Welcome back yet again and thank you for your well thought out comment.

  6. Tsubahi Says:

    Shut your pie hole, little boy.

    Astonishing you even had half the brain to post a clip so old it makes your grandfather look like a kid.

  7. MindsiMedia Says:

    Ah but you came back.

  8. Tsubahi Says:

    Wow.

    The whole Internet is crawling with pubescent babies, even with clips as old as this.

    Sorry I even posted here.

  9. likytedc Says:

    Got glass half empty?

  10. sawgrassv Says:

    very good point.

  11. Cogitotal Says:

    How very very delicious

  12. Cogitotal Says:

    Not really.

  13. Tsubahi Says:

    The second sentence wasn’t so necessary.:P

  14. mrptiful Says:

    I’m sure lots of places are different than they were 22 years ago. Quit being so negative about something you have no knowledge of.

  15. Tsubahi Says:

    Yes, back in 1987.

    And it was DIRTY, smelly, and disgusting with all the porn shops almost everywhere, too.

    You can even smell puke in the air, too!

  16. mrptiful Says:

    Tsubahi, have you even been to N.O.?

  17. MindsiMedia Says:

    I’m sure the producers of this film were more interested in presenting the more wholesome aspects of the Mardi Gras celebration. The idea that in 1941 there were no streets full of drunks, perverts and sleazy bums is silly. In those days facts like that were obscured and not exploited. Also due to the vast explosion of media capabilities in the past 60 years there are just more points of view available to people nowadays.

  18. tbtb90149 Says:

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  19. Tsubahi Says:

    And we are all going to be dead one day, too.:(

    Enjoy it while you can.

  20. Tsubahi Says:

    Looks cleaner and more wholesome than today’s sleazy New Orleans streets full of drunks, perverts, and bums.:P

  21. poepeniskoel Says:

    no tits for beads:O

  22. 1peoplesun Says:

    its amazing when u think just about everyone in that film is now dead .

  23. whitedevilland Says:

    white people march like godzilla chasing them whats the rush lol

  24. willyrobinson Says:

    That’ your opinion; of course Juneteenth, Black History Month, Martin Luther King Jr Holiday, and various Afro-” ” festivals across the country probably in your locality as well as mine do not cater to specific groups…well again that’ your opinion and it i mine that you are willingly ignorant not to notice.

  25. JudiG Says:

    I didn’t see a swastica anywhere, but yeah, racial hatred and ugliness was rampant then – far worse than now.

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