Charlie Kurtz, proprietor of Charlie's Saints Corner, remembered the day Jerry The Rat, a regular at his watering hole, put his Budweiser aside and began singing, "It's Cryin' Time Again in Ol' New Orleans." It was Pearl Harbor Day, December 7.

"We used to party here past midnight," moaned Kurtz. "Now we're closing at 7 o'clock. That shouldn't happen, not in this city. But that's how depressed people are."

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