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Civilization Reforms in New Orleans After Katrina
In the French Quarter residents banded into improvised tribes to share labor and survive. A bartender stitched a robbery victim’s torn ear while mold and contagion spread in the flooded city. Some stayed amid high ground, others scrounged food, water, and fuel as bars like Johnny White’s kept doors open to aid neighbors.
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New Orleans
Vasilious Tryphonas
Johnny White
Bourbon Street
Vieux Carre
Old Quarter