Where: St. Rose, Louisiana, located 30 minutes from New Orleans.

When: February 15, 2005

What: A slice of Americana, the Saint Rose Tavern was built in 1922 in River Rd., St. Rose, LA. On weekends many of the surrounding locals would come and meet each other at dances. The building was a bar, hotel, restaurant, and barber shop in the 1920s. Today, Patsy and Rickie - who still cook the roast beef as “Ms. Sis” did - run it. The place has been featured in different movies (a few scenes in “Monster’s Ball” were shot here), TV commercials, music videos (Emmy Lou Harris’ “Crescent City” and ads, but you can still come with your family, have some great food and feel right at home!

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Why: Stacks of vinyl records, handmade signs (“Crawfish and potato salad”, “…only American cash”), canoe paddles and Ducks Unlimited posters make this old tavern a veritable time capsule of old-fashioned, down-home, southern American life.

Saint Rose Tavern is “an amazing place where you can get lost for a quite while looking at old ‘Americana’ everywhere. The spicy southern Louisiana food is great too!” says Alfonso Bresciani.

How: Bresciani used a Canon 20D, Canon 16-35 mm lens at 16 mm ( 1.6 crop= 25.6 mm). Kaidan pano head, Tripod, Realviz Stitcher 4.0, Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Apple QuickTime Pro 6.5 and Dreamweaver for webdesign.
Email Alfonso Bresciani: info[at]pompo[dot]com