[Ads-l] Barry Popik, continued work on "Big Easy"

[Mark Mandel]

As usual, Barry's work is splendid.

Mark Mandel

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, 9:33 PM Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu> wrote:

> Barry Popik continues to do extensive work on American speech and word
> origins,
>
> and I now share one such item of his; it should be of interest to name
> researchers
>
> in Louisiana. If anyone in ads-l personally knows a historian interested
> in Louisiana
>
> place names/nicknames, perhaps Popik's message below could be drawn to
> their attention.
>
>
> Gerald Cohen
>
>
> From: Barry Popik <bapopik at aol.com>
> To: <snip>
> Sent: Sat, Mar 2, 2019 4:45 pm
> Subject: The "Big Easy" 1911 dance hall in Gretna (East Green) has been
> located. Please tell others,
>
> then put up a historical marker.
>
>
> Re:
>
> https://www.bigeasymagazine.com/2019/02/28/the-origin-of-the-nickname-the-big-easy-isnt-what-you-think/
> https://www.bigeasymagazine.com/2019/02/26/new-orleans-city-of-nicknames/
> ...
> To the Gretna City Council:
> ...
> The location of the 1910s "Big Easy" dance hall has been found. It was not
> located at New Orleans
> at all. "Big Easy" was at Lafayette and Eighth in Gretna (East Green), and
> it burned down in 1911.
> ...
> For the 25th annual Gretna Heritage Festival, you can honor the "Big Easy."
> ...
> I have asked Gretna's mayor to verify the "Big Easy" location, and to ask
> everyone if they can
> add more information (relatives of "Big Easy" dance hall owner Paul Batson
> are surely still alive),
> and then, finally, to honor the "Big Easy" location with a plaque,
> possibly during the Gretna Heritage
> Festival.
> ...
> I have done additional work on the origins of "Big Easy" (finding 1960s
> citations) and "Big Apple"
> (which originated at the Fair Grounds 100 years ago), and I have tried to
> give it to Gretna and to New
> Orleans <snip>
> ...
> Barry Popik
> www.barrypopik.com
>
>
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