"City That Care Forgot" (New Orleans) (1913)

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   What's the date for "City That Care Forgot"?
   Unfortunately, "Big Easy" was a Big Diificult for an Ancestry.com search.
"City That Care Forgot" is not mentioned at all in George Earlie Shankle's
AMERICAN NICKNAMES (1937, 1955).  "City That Care Forgot" is intended to mean
that New Orleans is a "carefree" city.  A "footloose" city, if you will.
   "City That Care Forgot" has dropped out of popularity.  Like "Fun City,"
it was used in an unflattering way, becoming "The City That Forgot To Care."
   I'll check the Columbia University microfilms of the NEW ORLEANS
TIMES-PICAYUNE for Mardi Gras, starting with 1913.  Then this will be Fred Shapiro- or
Frank Abate-ready, should they care to use it.



   21 April 1913, SHEBOYGAN PRESS (Sheboygan, Wisconsin), pg. 6, col. 5:
   "The more the merrier" will be the slogan Convention week, and Baltimore
will be "The City Care Forgot."
(Baltimore?  The article mentions "merry masqueraders, a la the Mardi-Gras in
New Orleans"--ed.)


   14 June 1914, WASHINGTON POST, pg. 5, col. 6:
   You will remember that when Morello was in New Orleans on the affairs of
the Ignatz Florio Association he wore a bandanna handkerchief with five knots
toes in it in defiance of those who threatened to epose his counterfeiting
schemes in connection with the real estate propaganda.  All afternoon Morello
stalked the streets of "The City of Care Forgot" wearing this badge of defiance
described in the Black Hand ritual as worn by the head of crime.


   7 February 1921, ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, pg. 6?, col. 7:
   On the days of its prime carnival season saw its official opening the
Monday preceding Shrove Tuesday (mardi gras) when with due formality committees of
the Mystic Krewes sailed down the river to meet the royal yacht, aboard which
was Rex, King of Misrule, and for two days sovereign of the so-called City
that Care Forgot.


   17 February 1931, CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM (Elyria, Ohio), pg. 10?, col. 5:
   ...--Mardi Gras.  All New Orleans seemed to forget business and the city
seemed to be the one "care forgot."