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Article: THE LAST NIGHT AT THE SAZERAC
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- New Orleans Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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This was a happy night. The date was Aug. 25, 2005, and the Fairmont Hotel's Sazerac bar was packed tighter than a Huey Long ballot box as people gathered to celebrate the former governor's birthday. Long, whose actual birthday was August 80, would have been approaching a sprightly 112 that evening but there was still plenty life left in his memory.
Back in the Kingfish's day the hotel, then known as the Roosevelt, was one of his favorite places, and the bar would have been a natural hangout.
In its better days, patrons of the Sazerac could sit in plush banquettes (wall-side circular sofas) and watch the bartenders twirl Old Fashion glasses in preparation of the perfect Sazerac. New ...