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An open container does not include any bottle, can, or other receptacle that contains a frozen alcoholic beverage unless the lid is removed, a straw protrudes therefrom, or the contents of the receptacle have been partially removed.
As a result, Louisiana law strictly prohibits a person from leaving a convenience store, a bar, or a restaurant an open container of alcohol. There is only one exception to this. This changed after Jim Garrison became district attorney in Bourbon Street vice had long been a rallying cry for reformers; Garrison knew it played well among voters, and shined light on it during his campaign.
He calculated that burlesque clubs were costly operations with big staffs, and could only turn a handsome profit if they ran illicit money-making schemes on the side. Knock out those schemes, he figured, the clubs would close and Bourbon Street would be "cleaned up. Garrison's vice raids over the next two years achieved all of the above--and then some. Old-line burlesque nightclubs padlocked their doors left and right, and those that survived had to scale down now that they were no longer subsidized by extra-legal income streams.
Many became tawdry strip joints or dive bars, and it didn't help that patronage in this era was steadily shifting away from middle-class couples with cash in their pockets, and toward trekking hippies on shoestring budgets. Barkers tried to cajole pedestrians into coming indoors, but had little success. Bourbon Street was in trouble. Some time in , one unremembered enterprise came up with a better idea.
Instead of convincing people outside to buy drinks inside, why not sell inside drinks to people outside? Window hawking led to "drink-carrying" and littering, not to mention widespread ambulatory inebriation in the public space. Everyone seemed to come out ahead with window hawking -- except, that is, for neighborhood residents' quality of life. On the supply side, it enabled owners to tap into the outdoor money stream with a minimum of capital improvements.
It put less emphasis on decor, facilities, bathrooms, air conditioning, heating and other costly overhead. It reduced the need for labor, particularly live entertainment.
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