Specialty shopping in Louisiana
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Mary Jane’s Emporium
By ‘Mary Jane, ’ they’re not referring to shoes. This is an essential stop for smokers of legal tobacco products, including finer brands of cigarettes not sold at your basic corner store. Also, a variety of apparatus for the smoking of unsanctioned herbal products and such is sold here. All right, it’s basically a head shop.
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Sideshow: The Old Curiosity Shop
In the tradition of rummage stores of earlier times, this shop aims not just to sell you stuff, but to dazzle you as well. It does so simply by stocking oddities you'd expect to encounter in a sideshow tent (two-headed ducks, skulls of mythological creatures, and other mind-bending items). You can also buy magician's supplies, snazzy decks of risqué playing cards and a bevvy of other guilty pleasures from another age.
It's owned and operated by Elizabeth Anderson, wife of actor Harry Anderson (himself a magician).
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Civil War Store
If you're looking for old 'Dix' bills printed by the short-lived Confederacy, then duck into this tiny shop. It's about as big as a walk-in closet, and it will take but a few minutes to assess the wares. The shop also carries a minimal selection of ancient firearms, in case you've been challenged to a duel and don't object to the possibility of a weapons malfunction.
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