Pinkest House in New Orleans

If you ask somebody from Uptown if they know about the pink house on North Dorgenois Street, they're not going to know what you're talking about.  They're from Uptown so they they don't know.  There are other pink houses, but, this is the pinkest house in New Orleans.  Even though it is super-pink, to tell you the truth, not many people in the 6th Ward know about it either.  It's like it's invisible.

The pinkest house in all New Orleans!

Ask somebody at CC's Coffee Shop on Esplanade Avenue.  Guaranteed no one there, neither outside nor inside, will have ever seen or heard of this pinkest house in New Orleans.  I doubt any of them could name even one pink house in the city.  It's not their fault.  This kind of thing just isn't on their radar.

Ask somebody at Dooky Chase's.  Maybe someone has heard of the Dorgenois Pink House.  There was a song about this pink house once.  It was popular around the time of the New Orleans Axe-Man.  Go to Dooky Chase's for Friday lunch.  There will be a long line so there will be ample opportunity to ask as many people as possible.

Ask someone at Willie Mae's Scotch House.  That address is even closer to the pink house.  Certainly no one in the line that goes down the side of the building will know.  Some of the Uber or taxi drivers who swarm around the address may know.  They've driven down every street.

Find someone on the Lafitte Greenway.  If they'll talk to you, ask them.  If it's kids sucking on huck-a-bucks under the shade of a tree, they'll probably know.  The pink house sticks in the minds of children.  It is only when we get older that we start to take the world's simpler pleasures for granted and stop noticing them.

Ask an adult who has grown up in the 6th Ward.  They'll know.  Ask an adult who has moved in the 6th Ward since Katrina.  They probably won't know.  It doesn't matter how specific you get.  "It's the pink house on the river side of North Dorgenois Street.  It's pink.  It's really, really pink.  It's all pink!  The porch light is always on.  It always smells like turtle soup."  They don't know, even if they're not originally from Uptown.

Why do you need to know about the pinkest house in New Orleans?  You're probably not going to see it, either.  

The Dorgenois Pink House isn't a legend.  How can something be a legend if nobody knows about it?  It is a well-kept secret hidden in plain sight.  To know this pink house is to love it.  Maybe it is best that most people don't know it.  The pinkest house in New Orleans is on a quiet block of North Dorgenois Street.  Crows never roost there.

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