The Maple Leaf Turns 25

Inspired by Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” as well as the burgeoning need for a decent watering hole in Uptown New Orleans, Carl Brown and five of his friends opened the Maple Leaf Bar 25 years ago this month.

"The reason we started it was because all the bars in this city at that time were fundamentally penny arcades. They had air hockey, they had bumper pool, they had pinball; I mean it was just ding ding dong dong just constantly; the jukebox...