{"id":1037,"date":"2009-10-19T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T12:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2015-12-27T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T19:07:25","slug":"sazerac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/10\/sazerac\/","title":{"rendered":"Sazerac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I wouldn&#8217;t start off the week with a post about cocktails but this is a hectic one with back to back on site work and printings for casart coverings.<\/p>\n<p>Life has been so crazy busy that I never really fully posted about the fun stuff during my recent trip to New Orleans. We were in meetings most of the time but we did take a break to have a drink at the Sazerac Bar in the now named Roosevelt Hotel, originally name for <a title=\"Previous post on Teddy Roosevelt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=448\" target=\"_blank\">Teddy Roosevelt<\/a>. It was once called the Fairmont, where I remember the Hermes Ball used to take place. It closed after Hurricane Katrina with some water and storm damage. Fortunately the original murals in the Sazerac bar were protected with plywood. The hotel has been fully restored back to its original grand style and it is up an running well, despite the economy. New Orleans remember experienced its own economic downturn way before our current recession. It can only go up from there. Katrina really did a number on my city and many naysayers said it would never come back. I really disliked getting those kinda phone calls afterwards asking if I my family and I were alright and then in the same breadth asking, &#8220;do you think it will ever come back?&#8221; I got caller ID after that. Clearly some folks that I hadn&#8217;t ironically heard from in forever didn&#8217;t know New Orleans or those from there very well. We don&#8217;t give up. We persevere.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to report it has come back; although it is still a slow road to full recovery. Living there daily you know the difference. A tourist never would and that&#8217;s good because they are there to experience things that were never really damaged, like the French Quarter. I was very glad to see this article in the <a title=\"New Orleans via philly.com\" href=\" http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/travel\/20091018_A_grand_hotel_glitters_anew_in_New_Orleans.html\" target=\"_blank\">philly.com<\/a> blog about New Orleans&#8217; resurgence and the Sazerac Bar is featured. It&#8217;s a great place with old-world charm to grab a drink or better yet a <a title=\"Previous post on sazerac\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=97\" target=\"_blank\">sazerac cocktail<\/a> &#8212; the official drink of New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/10\/20091018_inq_tr1nola18-a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1038 aligncenter\" title=\"Sazerac Bar in New Orleans\\' Roosevelt Hotel via Philly.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/10\/20091018_inq_tr1nola18-a-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Sazerac Bar in New Orleans\\' Roosevelt Hotel via Philly.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091018_inq_tr1nola18-a-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091018_inq_tr1nola18-a.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I wouldn&#8217;t start off the week with a post about cocktails but this is a hectic one with back to back on site work and printings for casart coverings. Life has been so crazy busy that I never really fully posted about the fun stuff during my recent trip to New Orleans. We were in meetings most of the time but we did take a break to have a drink at the Sazerac Bar in the now named Roosevelt Hotel, originally name for Teddy Roosevelt. It was once called the Fairmont, where I remember the Hermes Ball used to take place. It closed after Hurricane Katrina with some water and storm damage. Fortunately the original murals in the Sazerac bar were protected with plywood. The hotel has been fully restored back to its original grand style and it is up an running well, despite the economy. New Orleans remember experienced its own economic downturn way before our current recession. It can only go up from there. Katrina really did a number on my city and many naysayers said it would never come back. I really disliked getting those kinda phone calls afterwards asking if I my family and I were alright and then in the same breadth asking, &#8220;do you think it will ever come back?&#8221; I got caller ID after that. Clearly some folks that I hadn&#8217;t ironically heard from in forever didn&#8217;t know New Orleans or those from there very well. We don&#8217;t give up. We persevere. I&#8217;m happy to report it has come back; although it is still a slow road to full recovery. Living there daily you know the difference. A tourist never would and that&#8217;s good because they are there to experience things that were never really damaged, like the French Quarter. I was very glad to see this article in the philly.com blog about New Orleans&#8217; resurgence and the Sazerac Bar is featured. It&#8217;s a great place with old-world charm to grab a drink or better yet a sazerac cocktail &#8212; the official drink of New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,31,22],"tags":[834,835,836,832,831,128],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-murals","category-new-orleans","tag-bar","tag-cocktail","tag-fairmont","tag-hotel-roosevelt","tag-new-orelans","tag-sazerac"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sazerac<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sazerac drink and New Orleans restaurant and bar on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/10\/sazerac\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sazerac\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sazerac drink and New Orleans restaurant and bar on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/10\/sazerac\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-10-19T12:47:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T19:07:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/10\/20091018_inq_tr1nola18-a-300x182.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/sazerac\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/sazerac\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Sazerac\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-10-19T12:47:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T19:07:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/sazerac\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":353,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/sazerac\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/20091018_inq_tr1nola18-a-300x182.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"bar\",\"cocktail\",\"Fairmont\",\"Hotel Roosevelt\",\"New Orelans\",\"Sazerac\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Food &amp; 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I had wanted to take many pictures of murals that I remember but no time. Instead, I'll post a few entries that depict just a few of the many examples of art in New Orleans.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/architecture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":347,"url":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2008\/08\/hidden-murals-in-new-orleans-lakefront-airport\/","url_meta":{"origin":1037,"position":3},"title":"Hidden Murals in New Orleans&#8217; Lakefront Airport","author":"casart","date":"August 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Speaking of hidden murals...This Times Picayune article, Clear for Takeoff, by Frank Donze caught my attention. Not only have beautiful, mostly undamaged, historic murals been found during the renovation of a shuttered terminal at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport, but they will be preserved as the airport terminal is restored\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/architecture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/08\/medium_lakefront1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4950,"url":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2012\/04\/facebook-leads-to-floral-murals\/","url_meta":{"origin":1037,"position":4},"title":"Facebook Leads to Floral Murals","author":"casart","date":"April 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Art Is Everywhere discusses the graffiti artwork of David Choe, the soon to be millionaire who painted murals for Facebook, and how reviewing stories led to the discovery of even more appealing floral murals by another Facebook painter.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Business","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/business\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"4_Jet-Martinez-facebook-mural_via Homedit, as seen on Art Is Everywhere","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/4_Jet-Martinez-facebook_via-Homedit.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":287,"url":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2008\/07\/teddy-roosevelt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1037,"position":5},"title":"Teddy Roosevelt","author":"casart","date":"July 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"There's art in performing and talent in performing well, as my friend Joe Wiegand does impersonating Teddy Roosevelt. We saw him during a live performance on President's Day, February 18, 2007 at the Lyceum in Alexandria, VA. In the spirit of Independence Day and since he's on tour celebrating T.R.'s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Performance&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Performance","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/performance\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/07\/trcloseupb.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}