Jim Henderson, the former "Voice of the Saints," joined Scoot Friday afternoon and discussed his Mardi Gras memories.
This year's Mardi Gras is expected to be a cold one, even though events are canceled, and Henderson said one of his most vivid Mardi Gras memories involved similar conditions.
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Henderson said that near the beginning of his 34 years covering Mardi Gras parades at Gallier Hall, he made an ill-advised costume choice.
"My first Mardi Gras was 1979 so this had to be '80,'81 somewhere in there, and we all costumed and we didn't necessarily have a theme at that time," Henderson recalled. "But I thought, it'd be really cool to be Superman. So I had gotten a Superman costume that was thread bare And it was a day pretty much like this. Maybe a little colder for the whole day.
"And I swear it took me the rest of the week to warm up. I was nearly hypothermic at the end of our six hours of coverage down
at Gallier Hall."
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