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Mardi Gras: New Orleans Beads, Pictures, BourboCAM, uncensored webcam and parades and Mardi Gras Highlights: MardiGras.com and NOLA.com
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In a town where it rains beads, pours doubloons and showers trinkets, there's just one reason to climb a ladder at this time of year: to tower above ground-level parade-goers and catch as much junk as their bags and pockets can possibly hold.
So when did we start sitting on ladders to catch parades - and beads? Ask Linda Clarke, who believes that her late father, Clarence Francis, may be responsible for all the hubbub. Back in the '40s, she said, her father came up with the idea of building a ladder seat after she got burned by a flare during an evening parade.
"He built it for my safety," she said. "No one else had them. After he started doing it, we noticed more and more people doing it. I often think to myself: 'We started all this foolishness.' "
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