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The way of the wine god: Bacchus at 30
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New Orleans Magazine
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February 1, 1998
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Copyright informationCopyright New Orleans Publishing Group Inc. Feb 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Spring 1968, and something else was brewing over dinner at Brennan's restaurant other than just the after-dinner coffee. Restaurateur Owen "Pip" Brennan, the son of the restaurant's founder, had a hankering to start a new Carnival parade and on this evening was meeting with some of the big boys in the Carnival establishment. What sort of impression would he make?
"I had never met Blaine Kern in my life," Brennan recalls about the area's most prolific float-builder. "I told [costume designer] Larry Youngblood that I would like to meet Kern and tell him about the idea we had been talking about. So Larry arranged this meeting and he, Blaine and I had dinner at the restaurant one night. I ...
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