More on the museum:

In 1823, the first licensed pharmacist in the United States, Louis J. Dufilho, Jr., opened an apothecary shop here. This Creole-style town house doubled as his home, and he cultivated herbs needed for medicines in the interior courtyard. Exhibits highlight milestones in pharmacy and medicine. The exhibits include various medical widgets, gizmos and gadgets, some partical and some not.

They've got little pharmacy bottles of herion and what-not. Also, the last two words of the above paragraph makes the museum especially fun.

Oh Lord. We had a new Crescent City Beignets open in Memphis. They're advertising authentic French Quarter atmosphere in a converted fast food restaurant that has plastic tables and chairs, a plastic order counter with backlit menu overhead, and a storefront made out of modern floor-to-ceiling windows. All this about 3/4 of a mile from Owen Brennan's, mind you.

Yo, "authentic atmosphere" requires more than draping a few Mardi Gras beads around the interior of a Denny's.

The exhibits include various medical widgets, gizmos and gadgets, some partical and some not.

OMG, I am so there. Impractical medical widgets fucking ROCK.

I sense that you're being sarcastic

No I'm not - I find this stuff fascinating.

It is cool. However, it used to be free and now it's like $5. For free it's a great deal. For $5 it's not.

You sure? Yahoo says $2.

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Impractical medical widgets fucking ROCK.

BWAH!

The Pharmacy Museum is a stop on a lot of Quarter tours.

Ah, you antique jewelry and that kind of stuff fans, I'll take you to see Cyn at the Silversmith's. Then hopefully by whatever returaunt her husband's cooking in.

You sure? Yahoo says $2.

For two dollars it's worth it, particularly if you like impractical widgets.

It's not big and it's not laid out with exhibits and stuff. It's just a lovely old pharmacy with all kinds of cool old stuff on the counters and on the drawers. Basically, Walgreens had an old pharmacy in the Quarter and they turned it into a museum, and pharmacists from around the country sent their old scales, and funky calipers and nifty little bottles.

I'm worried about the humidity too and I don't really drink so the bars as bars aren't interesting to me. The bars as places where you can hear music -- much more enticing.

NoiseDesign, I think you have done an amazing job of co-ordinating this whole process. There has been enough prodding to keep us moving but not so much that the whole thing became not fun. Kudos.

I don't think a run-off would be totally out of line. As happy as I am with the result, it was a close vote. I don't see the harm, unless it would take too much time or be too big of a hassle.

While you are not allowed in the cemeteries at night on your own, I am almost positive that night time tours can be arranged.

I have been meaning to go to the Pharmacy Museum for years. Just looking in the windows is pretty fun.

I generally like bars as bars- but the first time I went down those worn steps at Laffite's I had chills. It's creepy cool. (I'm easily creeped by old stuff).

Is there a date for the F2F? We're having our Bronzer F2F in May in NOLA, Memorial Day Weekend.