march 3: YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
our neighborhood - shoot, our whole city - is perpetually marred by terrible light. it's life in the swamp, i guess. all this to say that i have jacked up this photo trying to make the details clear. if i had time i guess i could wait for decent light, but hélas, today is "your neighborhood" day. no time to wait for ideal conditions.
anyway, this is snake & jake's christmas club lounge. it's a new orleans classic and has been named one of playboy's top ten american dive bars (quite the honor). and it's right around the corner from our house! a little history behind the name: the bar was originally called the christmas club lounge, and at some point it was purchased by jake, and it then became jake's christmas club lounge (think ruth's chris - same idea). then snake bought it from jake, hence snake and jake's.
it's a great place early in the evening - great music, super cheap beer, small crowds - and the guy next door (the rest of the block is residential) grills brats and burgers on thursday and friday nights for $5! but late night it turns into a tulane haunt. lots of drunk undergrads, and - horror of all horrors - lots of smoke. we don't spend much time there anymore.
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