French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
Referenced In
City of Night
by John Rechy"Horrormovie courtyards in the French Quarter—tawdry Mardi Gras fiats with clowns tossing out glass beads, passing dumbly like life itself."
City of Night
by John Rechy"I answered (and remember the pills, the liquor, the maryJane): “Desdemona was a swinging queen in the French Quarter who married a spadestud who dug her until a jealous pusher turned him on that his queen was making it with a studsailor, and the spade smothered the queen Desdemona and the heat came for him and he killed himself...."
City of Night
by John Rechy"IN THE MIDST OF THE FRENCH QUARTER, and above the trees of Jackson Square, the steeples of St Louis Cathedral, threatening Escape into Heaven, thrust crosses bravely into the sky, the highest a vague icy outline, the frozen ghosts of a cross from the distance—but slenderly erect overlooking with heavenly indifference—from that summery winter sky etched delicately with spider-grilled outlines from the city’s balconies —the sprawling casbah world of the French Quarter."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Somewhere beyond the Quarter, the taxi stopped before what looks like a boarded-up store."
City of Night
by John Rechy"This room, just around the corner from the bar where I met him, is obviously one of those expensive rooms reserved months in advance of the carnival: their prices determined almost exclusively by their location in the French Quarter, the balcony from which the carnival rites can be viewed."
City of Night
by John Rechy"during those teeming French Quarter days, like a startlingly recalled dream of long ago"
City of Night
by John Rechy"but toning down the incredulity, she welcomed her to the queen sorority of the French Quarter."
City of Night
by John Rechy"…where the burgeoning Parade-crowds, released for the afternoon, have been heaved into the Quarter; and youngmen prowl Jackson Square restlessly watching the tourists anxious to wait anxiously in line to have coffee and donuts at the French Market, while Marie Antoinette and Robin Hood are being chased into the Cathedral by a band of cannibals…"
City of Night
by John Rechy"There are of course other bars in the French Quarter where the hunted and the hunting of that world gather."