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and Jackson Ave.—the Zulu, Rex and truck parades ostensibly comprise the day's "main event." While a family atmosphere prevails along the St. Charles, the French Quarter—party central—brings forth a fat sites human circus that has to be seen to be believed. Northside Skull and Bones masker, Mardi Gras 2003 Note, however, that magnificently attired Mardi Gras Indians are seldom seen along the main parade thoroughfare and avoid the Quarter altogether. The tribes, or “gangs,” spend the morning roaming the streets of their fat sites respective neighborhoods. The musically renown Wild Magnolias, for instance, gather at the fat sites intersection of Second St. and Dryades St., usually sometime between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Or catch Donald Harrison, the jazz saxophone virtuoso and chief of the Congo Nation, coming out at Walmsley Ave. and N. Lopez St. sometime around the break of day. He'll then proceed to S. Claiborne Ave., formation area for the Zulu parade, to toast King Zulu, Gerard Johnson.
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