“We’ve been getting a lot of phone calls at both businesses asking if it’s safe to park around here.”
NEW ORLEANS — Chewbacchus made its triumphant return to St. Claude Avenue Saturday.
The parade was cut short just days before it rolled in 2022 due to an NOPD manpower shortage and COVID-19, but they wouldn’t be held back again.
“We worked without City Councilman Freddie King, and we did prep all year long,” Chewbacchus Overlord Simonette Berry said. “We figured out how to hire additional security and, so, when it came time for filling our permits, we were ready to go.”
That security was on a lot of people’s minds before the parade started.
“We’ve been getting a lot of…
