No Mystique, no Artemis, no Orion — nothing at all is rolling, but you, if you want to see what some very creative people in Spanish Town and Mid City have done to their houses. Think of it, as the Mid City Gras folks call it, a reverse parade: People come by while the “floats” — people’s houses — are stationary.
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‘Pretty In Pink,’ one of the Mardi Gras themes in Spanish Town, is captured on a sign done by artist Amanda Stephenson at Mary Patricia Wray’s home on North Sixth Street.
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‘Pretty In Pink,’ one of the Mardi Gras themes in Spanish Town, is captured on signs by artist Amanda Stephenson at Mary Patricia Wray’s home on North Sixth Street.
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Happy gators and colorful Mardi Gras masks and flags decorate this house at 605 Camelia Avenue for the Mid City Gras celebration.
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Renee Daigle, left, and Trudy Smith along with a few other Southdowns Marching Girls are pictured in Smith’s North Eighth Street yard in Spanish Town. The decorations are by artist Amanda Stephenson, who is ‘Queen Vaccine’ of the not-going-to-roll Southdowns Parade.
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A large flamingo, the mascot of Spanish Town Mardi Gras, looms in front of this home on Bungalow Lane.
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A flock of plastic pink flamingos has landed at Emily Ardoin’s home on Spanish Town Road
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Susan and Greg Bailey’s home on North Eighth Street in Spanish Town is pink flamingo ready.
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A flamingo draped in Mardi Gras beads hangs out on the front porch of Emily Ardoin’s home on Spanish Town Road.
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Jamie Gobel decorates the front porch of her Spanish Town Road home with pink flamingoes.
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Jamie Gobel decorates the front porch of her home on Spanish Town Road with a little help from her dog, appropriately named Rex.
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A squirrel, the mascot of the Mid City Gras Parade, sits in front of the home of Matt Dardenne and Corey Shircliffon on Drehr Avenue.
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Leslie Blanchard, left, and husband Greg Sevcik, right, along with friend Juli Maniscalco, center, bring internet meme sensation Bernie Sanders and his buzzworthy mittens to the couple’s North Seventh Street house float in Spanish Town.
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Pink mesh drapes a flamingo in the Spanish Town front yard of Debbie Daniel on North Seventh Street, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. With 2021 Mardi Gras parades cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Spanish Town and Mid City neighborhoods are promoting the decorating of houses instead.
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Kristin Caulk is all about the pink at her home on North Fifth Street in Spanish Town.
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A row of flamingos, some with wind-powered spinning wings, flock in Mary Jane Marcantel’s yard on North Ninth Street in Spanish Town.
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Phoebe Rose Blanchard, ‘almost four’ years old, plays with a homemade ‘Mid City Gras’ medallion hanging from a tree in the front yaard of her Arlington Avenue home, Sunday., Jan. 31, 2021.
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Gorgeous metal flamingos perch among the vines at the home of Claudia Alley on University Walk in Spanish Town.
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A squirrel, the mascot for Mid City Gras, hangs out with Bernie Sanders and his Inauguration Day mittens in the front yard of Mid City Gras grand marshal Terri Singleton on Bienville Street.
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Christy Pappa is ready to toss a few wine corks (decorated as a raccoon, acorn and robin) bottle caps and beads to those who pass by her Arlington Avenue home in Mid City.
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Christy Pappa and husband Carey Blanchard created a colorful Mardi Gras display at their Mid City home on Arlington Avenue.
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Christy Pappa adjusts the masks, magnolias and blue jays at her home on Arlington Avenue in Mid City.
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A squirrel, the mascot for Mid City Gras, masks up in the Bienville Street front yard of Mid City Gras’ grand marshal Terri Singleton.
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