1988… George Bush was elected the 41st President of the United States succeeding Ronald Reagan, Sidney Bartholomey was the mayor of New Orleans, gasoline was less than a buck a gallon and an entire nation went into anguish when Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings. It was also the year Jack Groetsch played a hunch and opened the Howlin’ Wolf in Metairie’s Fat City district, on the corner of Division and 18th Street.
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