Muted Mardi Gras: Closed Bars, Barricaded Bourbon Street
By Kevin McGill, Associated Press
Published April 16, 2021
Elvin King III, a high school senior, poses for a portrait in front of his home in New Orleans, Friday, Feb. 12. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Music blared from the courtyard of a French Quarter restaurant on Mardi Gras morning but nobody was there to hear it until Tom Gibson and Sheila Wheeler of Philadelphia walked out of their hotel’s nearly empty lobby.
“We were expecting a little bit lower key than the normal Mardi Gras,” Wheeler said. But empty Bourbon Street was a shock.
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Coronavirus-related restrictions and unusually frigid weather prevented what New Orleans usually craves at the end of Mardi Gras season: streets and businesses jam-packed with revelers.