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    Mullet Street

    Jun 01, 2022 4 minutes
    WAYNE CURTIS

    Here’s a challenge, the next time you visit New Orleans. Head to Bourbon Street where it intersects with Iberville Street and start walking downriver. Whether you find the street appealing or appalling doesn’t matter. This most prominent corridor of the most historic part of the city deserves a stroll. I’d suggest going at twilight, when it’s pleasantly garish and the neon is flickering on and the inebriety hasn’t yet become soiled and frayed, and the imbibers haven’t yet become unspooled. Now walk nine blocks until you get to St. Philip Street and see if you can do so without hearing one of three songs: “Mustang Sally,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” or “Brown Eyed Girl.” I’m pretty sure this cannot be done. My

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