Today's episode of Boing Boing Video features rare and historic film from Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1956. Artist Mar Dore stumbled on a box of slides in her family's home in Texas a few years back, and inside, discovered photographs that her father, John Mizenko, took of the parades back in the era of "Mad Men." That box of slides was like a time capsule, Mar says, and opened a door into history—the history of New Orleans, and of her own family.
Video and photos at
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/26/mardi-gras-1956-thro.html
Video and photos at
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/26/mardi-gras-1956-thro.html