Mr. George Moore, Mobile, Alabama Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras along the Gulf coast has changed in many ways over the last 300 years. Historians tell us that Mardi Gras celebrations were initially conducted on New Year’s Eve, rather than Fat Tuesday. Secret societies were created, parades were invented and the ever popular “throws” evolved. For a first hand, eyewitness account of the changes over the last few decades, Gulfscapes consulted the Official Historian of Mobile’s Battle House hotel, Mr. George Moore. The Battle House has been known as Mobile’s living room since it was first built in 1852. Over the years, it has been burned down, shut down and now renovated as part of the plan to revitalize Mobile’s downtown. Mr. Moore, known affectionately as “Mr. George”, worked at the Battle House in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and was one of the first new hires when the hotel re-opened in 2007. Mr. George, a life-long Mobile resident, proclaims he is “seventy five years young”, and has seen as many Mardi Gras as anyone.
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