Cafe Lafitte in Exile

When the owner of the business, Tom Caplinger, was forced to vacate that location, he reopened at 901 Bourbon Street and named the new bar Cafe Lafitte in Exile.

The bar is open 24 hours a day and has had influential guests including Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote.

At the grand reopening party in 1953, patrons arrived costumed as their favorite 'exile', including people like Oscar Wilde, Dante, and Napoleon.

"[8] On September 28, 1958, Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide, was killed after leaving the bar with John Farrell, a student from Tulane University.

Farrell had earlier in the night expressed to his friends that he wanted to "roll a queer" (a slang term meaning to rob a gay man), and he assaulted Rios in an alley of the St. Louis Cathedral after leaving the bar with him.