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Transcript: Profile: History of the French Quarter in New Orleans
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- NPR Morning Edition
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- April 8, 2002
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Profile: History of the French Quarter in New Orleans
Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
ALEX CHADWICK, host:
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Alex Chadwick.
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CHADWICK: New Orleans has been called America's most exotic city,
and its French Quarter has long lured tourists with the promise of
pleasure and a whiff of the forbidden and the lost. Tour guide Willie
Bridges celebrates those qualities on every buggy ride.
Mr. WILLIE BRIDGES (Tour Guide): Well, now the left is the house
of the rising son. Now when we say son, we don't mean S-U-N; we mean
S-O-N. When a young man reach the age of 13 and 14, ...