Vintage New Orleans Mardi Gras video footage from 1954

[@galenthrope]

I love old footage like this; thank you!!!

[@john-ducky]

Wow this is fantastic footage!

[@joydavis8583]

wow 😲 Mardi Gras from 1954 I was nowhere in the picture I was born in 1960 but thank you for sharing

[@peterpaul231]

Can someone explain the swastikas at 3:50?

[@pastelskies8466]

Perhaps it was the KKK swapping out their robes, dressed as Native Americans instead. It's just wrong.

[@galenthrope]

I wrote MsJacklyn a reply about this (below), assuming it WAS meant offensively. But it could have also been a satiric reference to WWII (considering the decade; was probably still fresh in everyone's memory), or it could have been a misinterpretation of a Native American symbol that looks very much like a swastika. One thing's for sure: it's a weird get-up for ANY decade! Lol

[@galenthrope]

@@pastelskies8466 That's also possible. It's a really. weird. costume.

[@darthjarjarbinks8953]

Swastikas used to be a sign of peace, so maybe they were trying to say Natives were peaceful (even though they weren’t). Just a theory.

[@honkhonk1555]

Go look up the actual original meaning of it, and instead of what your Judeo-Bolshevik masters have told you, and programmed you to believe, and accept. Stop looking to be offended by relatively benign, and inoffensive things.

[@TransporterVintageRetro]

Fantastic

[@EladioTalio]

This is so cool! I'm a musician and I was wondering if I could please use some of the footage here for a music video for an original song I wrote about the Mardi Gras :) Please let me know! Thank you - long live NOLA!

[@ConchettaTucker-vc3cm]

Love my City 💜

[@dernaljones1125]

@3:32 That dude had to be from Downtown New Orleans particularly the 7th Ward where all the middle class creole blacks lived and many still do til this day The Mercadels is one of them to name a few. 😏

[@kap6912]

I mean besides all that creepy shit we used to throw down

[@dernaljones1125]

@ 3:46 WOW!!😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@kap6912]

Omg

[@klewis1839]

Bet their was a lot of black face and racism during these segregated times . Yet it’s edited in order to be swept under the rug and to save face.

[@MsJacklyn725]

Please delete frames 3:50-3:53..... I really would like to share this on Facebook with my mom who is 91 years old and considers this her lifetime favorite holiday. It has only been in the last 2 years that she has not been in attendance. The particular footage I am requesting to delete is and will be offensive to all people today viewing this nostalgic video. Thank you⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️

[@ajenglish]

That symbol was commonly used by native Americans, it has nothing to do with the offensive version of the symbol.

[@alexmoyers5049]

Wow so baby boomers are really the most easily offended people of all time.

[@stanleyfinster6868]

@@ajenglish and maybe it's not the Nazi connotations they find offensive. Perhaps its the fact that aboriginal culture is being disrespected (yet again) and being used in caricature as a costume. In the same way that "Blackface" is disrespectful and derogatory of People of colour.

[@pastelskies8466]

Some of the men in exaggerated drag was offensive in its own way. No need to elaborate the message.

[@pastelskies8466]

@@ajenglish the whirling sun symbol used by the Navajo's was rounded. It wasn't like a Nazi swastika.

[@pocahontasseguinart7099]

That’s affencive wearing indigenous outfits.

[@BarracusObamus]

Nice spelling

[@timburr4453]

who cares