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List of events

The Mobile Mardi Gras season begins in November with exclusive parties by mystical secret societies, then New Year's Eve ball. She became closely linked to social debutante season for some families. Other companies begin their events mystical Twelfth Night (January 6), with parades, dances (some of them masked balls), and King cake parties.

During the last two weeks before Mardi Gras, at least one major parade takes place every day in the city. The procession of the largest and most elaborate are held the last days of the season. In the last week of Mardi Gras, many important events and small occur throughout Mobile and the surrounding communities (See calendar of events).

The parades are primarily mobile Carnival of the brotherhoods or orders. Krewe float riders throw shooting into the crowd. Most often cast are strings of plastic beads, doubloons (in aluminum or wooden, one dollar coins usually impressed with a company logo brotherhood), wrapped sweets / snacks / Moonpies a decorated plastic cups, stuffed animals, small toys and other cheap. Great guilds following the schedule and route of the parade, including each year.

For mobility, "Mardi Gras" refers to the entire festival season, also known as Carnival. Mardi has several local schools Gras Holidays "(which may include the Ash Wednesday), and the final on Tuesday called" Fat Tuesday "or" day of Mardi Gras. "Mobile Culture has diversified, and the Mardi Gras season has been extended. Traditions of the region from its history, including Spanish, British, African, Creole and American influences, including Swedish.

History

A Mardi Gras type festival has been brought by the French colonists Mobile Catholic Foundation of French Louisiana, the Mardi Gras celebration was part of the preparation for Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. The first record of the feast is marked United States is March 3, 1699, at a campground along the Mississippi Delta. After the construction of Fort Louis de la Mobile (17001702), the settlers held Mardi Gras in Mobile in 1703, the beginning of an annual tradition, occasionally canceled due to war.

Mobile was the capital of Louisiana in 1702, but became British in 1763. Field later became part of Spanish West Florida (17,801,812). Carnaval (Carnival) was initiated in the Epiphany (January 6) with torchlight processions.

Mardi Gras has evolved over centuries in the area of Mobile, combining tradition and culture with new ideas. Mardi Gras French came to America with French colonists founders, the brothers Le Moyne, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville: late 17th century, King Louis XIV sent the pair France is trying to defend the territory of Louisiana, which included the present states of the USA Alabama and Louisiana.

The two explorers who crossed the Dauphin Island (Alabama), navigation of the Mississippi River mouth (traced by La Salle, 1682), sailed upstream, March 3 1699, held to name the site Pointe du Mardi Gras (French: "Mardi Gras Point) 60 miles downstream from the desert would become New Orleans 20 years later. Meanwhile, between 17001702, 21 Bienville founded the settlement of Mobile (Alabama), as the first capital of French Louisiana, and 1703, the American Mardi Gras tradition began with the annual celebrations of French mobile. Festivities Mobile Mardi Gras has been called Boeuf Gras (Fat ox). The masked ball, Masque of the mobile, which began in 1704, and the first parade was known in 1711, when Mobile "Boeuf Gras Society (" fat meat company), Mardi Gras parade, with 16 men pushing a truck carrying a cow's head large paper MCH.

Mobile moved to Mississippi Territory in 1812, Alabama Territory in 1817, and 1819 Alabama State

In 1720, Biloxi became the second capital of Louisiana, and also celebrated French customs. Because of the fear of the tides and hurricanes in 1723 the capital was moved to the track port was opened in 1718 and called "New Orleans" (New Orleans). The city has also launched a celebration of Mardi Gras.

In 1763, Mobile came under British control. Its restrictions on free blacks Creole and racial segregation caused many to leave mobile and move west of New Orleans. In 1780, Spain took control of the Mobile area after the Revolution American. The celebration of Carnival custom built Spanish torchlight parades on Epiphany (January 6, also known as the Epiphany.) In 1813, Mobile has become a city of the United States, including in the Territory of Mississippi. In 1817, he was part of the territory of Alabama. In the Episcopal Church and Anglican traditions, the day before Ash Wednesday Mardi Gras was held as marked by the consumption of foods rich in practice before the fasting of Lent.

cowbell (Hung on the neck) in the name of Rakin Society Cowbellion

About 11 years later became a State of Alabama (1819), a group of revelers, headed by Michael Krafft was probably influenced by its Swedish heritage of Pennsylvania to celebrate the New Year, stayed up all night before New Year, began at the dawn of a parade on January 1, 1831, making noise with bells, hoes and rakes. The group became the first fashion show fashion mystical society (or "brotherhood"), calling themselves Cowbellion Rakin Society, in a parody of the French language. Annual parades had year-end each. Almost 125 years after the first parade Mobile 1711, the new wireless company mystical Cowbellion Rakin Society (1830), have taken their parade New Orleans, about 1835. In 1838 residents of New Orleans in the habit "of European celebrate the last day of Carnival with a parade of masks in the street. "

In 1843, a few men who were denied membership by Handbell formed the mobile "Strikers Independent Society" with its own New Year's parade. However, other men formed the Mobile Cowbell New Orleans in 1850 and 1857, the company Cowbellion, Mistick Krewe of Comus changed the name, held its first parade of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Le Boeuf Gras Society (17111861) held its last procession on Shrove Tuesday in 1861, before civil war and then disbanded.

Joe Cain Slacabamorinico

In 1867, after the War Between the States, Joe Cain parade revived Mardi Gras in Mobile, traveling in a car Charcoal veterans decorated with six colleagues. This event is held every year with Joe Cain day (from 1966) and a parade the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. Event founder, artist and historian Julian Lee "Judy" Rayford, represents the "head" and delivered in 1970 the characteristics of the third SLAC "Old" firefighter JB "Red" Foster. Promote prtrayed "head" before moving functions 1985, the historian, public relations professional and the pastor, Dean Bennett Wayne Dean Sr., as the Old SLAC IV "hisself," celebrated 25 years under the feathers Joe Cain in 2010.

War, economic, political, and weather conditions sometimes led to the cancellation of all or part of more parades important, especially during the Civil War and World War II. The city has always been a carnival.

Today, many companies operate under a structure mystical business, membership is in principle open to anyone pay a premium for a place in a parade of floats. By contrast, traditional societies were social club membership lists secret mystical. Revelation its members in a society may be grounds for dismissal. Some companies actively recruit new mystique to potential members. Some companies older workers is limited, with waiting lists numbering in the hundreds of other members of the former restrict including schools, or other arrangements.

The parade oldest mobile company is one of the myths of the Order, founded in 1868. Its emblem is made of madness in pursuit of the death of the broken pillars of life, a symbol of Mardi Gras in Mobile. Other companies include Mystic Knights of the celebration with dance of insanity on the edge of a glass of champagne, Comic Cowboys, child mystics, mystics of Time, Crewe of Columbus, Mystic Stripers Society, the order of Conde Cavaliers and the Inca. Business ladies, including the Order of moles (OOP), the oldest and largest of the ladies Mobile, the Maids of Mirth (MOMS), rivals friendly mystic who went out one day after the object-oriented programming in 1950. companies from other women mystics who have made a name for themselves include the name of the company with the grammatically incorrect, Lash, Order (sic), Order of Athena, which begins on Mardi Gras Day Parade and the Daughters of Neptune. Each of these companies have contributed something to the plot of Mobile Mardi Gras tradition.

traditional colors

traditional colors with a metallic sheen.

Meaning of colors

Justice (purple)

Fe (Green)

Power (gold)

The traditional colors of Mardi Gras in Mobile are purple and gold. Purple is tied to actual monarchies in Europe, and is the liturgical color used during Lent in Christianity. Many people have built a third mobile green, perhaps the traditional New Orleans colors purple, green and gold, the Russian House of Romanov in 1872, when Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovich Romanov, brother of the heir to the throne of Russia, had accepted an invitation from New Orleans to attend Mardi Gras, with celebrations in his honor.

After Katrina

Mobile, Alabama: the flooding of the town had several feet of the federal court during Hurricane Katrina 4 months before Mardi Gras 2006.

Like many Gulf Coast, many areas of Mobile were flooded due to storm surge caused by Hurricane intensity Katrina in the summer of 2005. Mobile center was flooded several feet deep, including the parade route downtown. Despite these difficulties, only paths has allowed them to continue celebrations of Mardi Gras and Mobile had the highest Tuesday Bold in its history after the storm. Mardi Gras in Mobile remains a local folk traditions and tourist travel safe cornering. Recent Mobile Mardi Gras season in 2007 was followed by almost 0.9 million people, with police estimate of the overall assistance to 878 000 105 600 and a multitude of streets of the fat-finals on Tuesday.

Contemporary Mardi Gras

Each year, Mardi Gras (or Carnival) begins with three main events: Parties in November International Carnival Ball and the Camellia Ball, Eve and January 6, also known as "Twelfth Night" or the Feast of the Epiphany. In the mobile sector, the season usually begins three parade weekend before Mardi Gras Day with parade Conde Cavaliers.

Two Friday before carnival is usually at least one parade every night. Wednesday before Mardi Gras is reserved as a "rain day ", where one or more of the previous shows are affected by climate.

Mobile Mardi Gras: The Order of the myths of the track 2007 float.

The weekend before Mardi Gras

result in multiple parades of Mardi Gras. Sunday (before Mardi Gras), Joe Cain Day celebrations are organized. In recent years have included a brief and brokers Joe Cain Procession, also known as the "People's Parade, the parade membership originally was not necessary to belong a mystical society. It is still headed by the Chief Slacabamorinico "hisself" Today, personified by a fourth person in the history of the city of Carnival long wear characteristics of the "head." There is surrounded by the Joe Cain mourning lovers red lamentations Cain Merry Widows in black.

Lundi Gras

The Monday before Ash Wednesday is known as "Lundi Gras" (Fat Monday), after the French tradition good food that day and Tuesday, in preparation dietary restrictions during Lent. In Mobile, Lundi Gras is traditionally a family day out. Schools are closed Monday and two of Mardi Gras. At midday Mobile Carnival Association Floral Parade takes place, with an area parochial and public schools floats providers and young riders. The Optimist Club organizes a family environment, near Fort Conde, with rides, food, games and activities. Lundi Gras is also a day for parties King cake and family meetings on the mobile.

By tradition, after other parades, the company held its mystical child annual parade 6 pm on Monday night in downtown Mobile.

Annual events are listed in the calendar event on Monday of Mardi Gras 2009:

Events on Monday, February 23 (2009):

11:00 Arrival of King Felix III (name of mobile carnival king) in the Government of St.

12:00 Parade Felix III and twelve Floral Parade

Martin Luther King 15:00 Business and Civic Organization Parade (rolls on Route D in)

Martin Luther King Monday 15:30 mystics Parade (rolls on Route D)

16:00 Northside Merchants Parade (rolls on Route D),

6:30 pm Infant Mystics Parade

Day Mardi Gras

The festivities begin early Mardi Gras. In the center, along the parade was organized by the Order of Athena rolls first, followed by drawings Cowboys animated, founded in 1884. The evening ends with a spectacular procession of floats lit night on a topic chosen by the College myths. Each parade follows a set route to viewers plan participation, especially along streets and balconies.

Order of Myths 2007 parade, emblem float

Some parades are long and circular so that viewers can walk to a second point of view and take more shots, like the floats circle in the background. Allows more time to see shows well.

The event calendar fat Mardi Gras 2009 is as follows:

Events on Tuesday, February 24, 2009:

Fat Tuesday! "(Always the day before Ash Wednesday)

Order of Athena Parade 10:30

12:30 Knights of Revelry Parade

13:00 King Felix Parade III

Comic Cowboys Parade 13:30

14:00 Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association (rolls on Route B)

Parade 18:30 Order Myths (rolls on Route C)

Many smaller parades and walking clubs also parade through the city.

The end of Mardi Gras

Rapidly in the midnight on Fat Tuesday's final, all at Mardi Gras festivities to end, as is the beginning of Lent. The city quickly clean the streets for the next day. Local traditions frown on bringing Mardi Gras beads during Lent. Catholics and other Christians often observed the rites of Lent, as a waiver certain foods or taking the obligations of charity during the season of repentance.

Costumes and masks

OOM float caterpillar.

Madness: myths Order 2007

The day before Fat Tuesday (except the parties), people who do not belong to a mystical society rarely use costumes and masks in public. Sometimes the general public may wear costumes or masks of Mardi Gras. Most people just dress to be attractive, enjoy the outdoors and the opportunity to socialize with others.

Mystic society members wear elaborate costumes that reflect the theme of its parade, ball or float. The costumes are custom made hats or headdresses, although some companies do not need that. More traditional guilds require pilots to wear a mask that is sufficient to hide the identity of the driver. Overexploitation mask mask or remove at any time during the parade grounds for dismissal of some companies. Some Companies also require members to wear masks mystical society for dance (usually held the night of his show).

Since 1957, the audience was allowed to wear masks of Mardi Gras 9:00 to 21:00, or are members of mystic societies. The restrictions related to problems with masked bandits and partnerships with the damage caused by the Ku Klux Klan. (See below: The legal restrictions.)

Mardi Gras Mask

Marketing

There is virtually no commercial advertising on the mobile parade since it was outlawed in 1935. Floats different on parade were designed as independent creations, but some mystic societies have had the idea of corporate sponsors.

Floats

Mardi Gras in Mobile: the Order of the myths float caterpillar 2007

Order of Myths, 2007: Death Game Madness

The design, construction and decoration the Mardi Gras float is a year more in mobile. Several businesses along the Gulf Coast do other work that the construction of floats. Parades largest fleet in Mobile are designed to hold about 15 or 16 adult men and vaccinations. City regulations provide length, width and height of the fleet to ensure that the fleet can safely navigate the narrow streets and tight turns downtown Mobile.

Floaters are usually several layers, with a level lower, a higher level, and one or two seasons of loft (usually near the back of the float). The chariot "Captain" in the level normally travels top, allowing you to watch them all in the float. For floats in the parades at night, the structures are wired for lighting, and a generator is towed by the float to maintain power. Each float contains also some type of portable toilets. Although the street, a Mardi Gras float can be seen as a bar of chocolate, craft fragile, the reality is that they are very solidly built and can withstand a properly balanced runners.

Some of the most famous floats mobile include:

Order of Myths Emblem: crazy game of death around the broken pillar of life (see picture).

Infant Mystics "hissing black cat, Humping his back on a bale of cotton.

Knights of Revelry Emblem: Madness Dance in the cup of life.

Infant Mystics Emblem: A black cat on top a bale of cotton (the mainstay of pre-war wealth Mobile)

Mystics of Time Vernadean, Verna & Dean: Giant stock and breathing fire Floating dragon smoke

Mystic Stripers Society emblem of two 40-foot floats, a fierce and "strong" Tiger, the other a stylish and "fast" Zebra.

Crewe Columbus Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria: Three coaches built to resemble famous ships of Christopher Columbus.

Order the famous Lunar emblem ", with three wings of the son of Pegasus in the gypsy queen golden chariot through the clouds wrapped rainbow

Order of faithful messengers Inca and the Sun: Some of the largest mobile moving structures.

Conde Cavaliers Emblem: Points swashbuckling sword their right to Mobile.

Shooting

Throwing throwing pearls gift

For many Mardi Gras parades in Mobile, members of the companies in launching floats gifts to the general public as so-called releases, including plastic beads, coins duplicate, decorated plastic cups, candy, packaged cakes / snacks, stuffed animals and toys small, soccer balls, frisbees, or whistles.

Mardi Gras throws evolved over the years. Just 20 years ago, the balls thrown by Mobile Revelers were small, cheap plastic parts, masks and a few gave much thought to them. Today, pearls can be the most expensive a mask to pull the list. In 1956, the first Moon Pies were thrown by children on the float in the parade of the Queen of the Comic Cowboys. Moon Pies have become a staple of Mardi Gras in Mobile. Other items that have crossed and Mobile Mardi Gras history include Cracker Jacks (banned in 1972), confetti and candy unbagged. Maskers throwing candy today typically throwing small bags of gum, kisses and other sweets. Enthusiasm recently attributed to members of the Order of the Incas, was throwing Ramen noodle packages to the crowd. The packets of noodles are easy to start, and cost about the same amount or fewer Moon Pies.

Rosary

plastic beads with metallic finish

Mystic member company launched strings of pearls cheap parade floats in the audience at least since the late 19. Until 1960, the most common forms were the colorful beads on small glass beads made in Czechoslovakia. They have been replaced by cheap, durable Standardized plastic beads, primarily from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and more recently China. cost pearls allow riders to buy large quantities, which starts have become more and more common. However, products manufactured in limited series are diverse, and many strings of pearls are of a single color, bulk bags the factory. This may result in multiple necklaces of the same color cast in the same time, instead of a variety colors.

In the 1990s, many have lost interest in tiny beads of Commons often left where they had landed on Earth. Larger, more complex, multi-colored beads and son with figures of animals, people or other objects have become sought-after releases. However, citing the rising cost of the shots, the revelers continue shopping and lay the ball of smaller diameter for the masses and save the more expensive, the development of designs for friends on the road.

Duplicates

One of the many shots of Mardi Gras, duplicates are large pieces of plastic or metal, often colored Mardi Gras. These pieces represent the emblem of the mystical society, the name and date of the founding of one hand and the subject and the year of the parade and the ball on the other side. Infant Mystics were the first to cast mystic Mobile twice in the mid-1960s.

Mardi Gras doubloons are round like old Spanish doubloons (photo)

Duplicates released during the parade are low cost, sealing of anodized aluminum. However, a cottage industry Free is developed for the production and collection of limited edition doubloons. As a means of raising funds, many companies now offer limited edition doubloons minted in bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Among other offers partitions and varieties, hand-painted. Rather than stamping, these coins were minted legal tender. The Risen Cowbellion Rakin Society has beaten what is now the rarest of coins Mobile in the history of Carnival – the Belldallion – Twice beaten in the shape of a bell.

plastic cups

Recent years, plastic cups were dropped. The Order of the Incas was the first fraternity to throw plastic cups bearing its logo and slogan for the parade and dance. Now every company in the mystical city cups subject launches its fleet. Also cast are generic Mardi Gras cups, often with Mardi Gras dates for future seasons printed on them.

Snacks

Snacks are usually packed individual food portions, like a brownie marshmallow cookies, snack cake, a bag of peanuts or a moon cake, chocolate, banana or orange frosty. Snacks division also included several bags of biscuits greaves. Other snacks Ramen noodles (a recent trend), fruits dried and pockets of all candy and gum.

Toys / Frisbees / football

A variety of soft plastic toys that flows, such as guns plastic water or ribbed hollow tube straw whistles. Frisbees plastic toy Frisbees are generally small, with less disk around 8 inches (41 cm) diameter. The small balls of soft plastic or foam rubber, have been thrown from floats, often focused convert once threw a ball size. Many are decorated with the company emblem or symbol.

Prohibition shots

A number of items are prohibited parade shots in Mobile, based on security or sexual restrictions, as defined in Article 49 of the Mobile City Code (From February 10, 2004):

"It is unlawful for any person to launch the following Mardi Gras floats during Mardi Gras parades: balls, rubber balls as hard as baseballs, objects treated wood, condoms or similar items, dolls with explicit construction of all the sex organs, candy apples, ice cream or foods that require refrigeration or freezing cans, canned foods, whole food, trinkets, etc Moon Pies, trinkets and other shots are launched singly or in small quantities. "

All boxes are prohibited spear (also from February 2004), including "flattened boxes or empty.

Roscón Kings: coffee cake, sugar-glazed stained again.

Other traditions Mardi Gras

Kings Roscón

The first week January King Cake season starts. The traditional King Cake is associated with the Epiphany on January 6, also known as Twelfth Night, where English and Europeans held Christmas for twelve days until the evening. The current version is a coffee cake, and is oblong and braided. The cake is iced with a single nail and coated with colored sugar purple, green and gold. Each cake contains a hidden one inch doll. According to custom, who finds the doll either have to buy the next King Cake or throw the next King Cake party. In the mobile sector, people throw away hundreds of pieces of King Cake every year, and thousands of cakes are made, bought and consumed.

torches: Parade 2007 OOM

Carrier Torches

Torches (the flame) was originally a beacon for lovers of the parade to better enjoy the show the night of the festival. In Mobile, parades before the night was lit by torches topped Cruz flares (as may be placed in an abandoned street traffic evening).

In the 20th century, more hot flares have been replaced by a generator powered electric lights on the floats. The Order of Myths Parade (A Tuesday night in the final) still used by people with torches.

Mardi Gras Icons

Several images or phrases that appear in common on Tuesday Gras season

The traditional colors: purple / green / gold.

Mobile flag.

Official Mardi Gras flags: Banderas special logo colors of Mardi Gras;

signs or elements with the traditional colors: purple, green and gold

The faces of Comedy and Tragedy: theater smiling and frowning faces;

feather masks August feathers attached at the edges;

Fleur de Lis symbol then French Mobile was the capital of the French colony;

"Let the good times!" (In French: Let the good times roll!)

"Throw me something, sir, "shouted a spectator of the parade.

Moon Pie song, heard along the parade routes crowds singing "Moon Pie Pie! Luna! "

Mystic companies

Main article: Mystic Society

One type of company began in Mobile 1704 in Mystic, with the Societ de Santa Luisa founded by French soldiers at Fort Saint-Louis de la Mobile. The annual report Mask Mobile has started the same year. In 1830, a group celebrated with a parade in the morning, later became Cowbellion Rakin Society in the guild first exhibition to be held annually with parades, processions and not spontaneous, as was the custom. Handbell dissolved in 1912, but saw a revival of the classes in 1990 so that the Risen Cowbellion Rakin She Society argued no direct relationship with its large greatgranddaddy.

Dozens of mystic societies have succeeded over the past three centuries, Mobile. The membership was made up of affiliated groups and co-workers, unmarried women, blacks, black women, Jews, married women, married couples, or free subscription, including visitors.

There are more than 40 companies mystical Mobile. Because many are run like secret societies, its impact Mobile politics, business and activities of the carnival is difficult to determine, but it was another form of social and political influence. Current notable companies Mystics are listed in the parade and schedule of events, described below (see: recent parades and mystical events).

Mystical Corporate Development

Mobile Carnival, Mardi Gras is the last day, will begin in November and ends promptly at Midnight Race Day Mardi Gras, with the onset of Lent. ball of the Company are carried out throughout the season for the first time in November, along with New Year's Eve. Mobile mystic societies build colorful Carnival floats and parade throughout downtown during the Mardi Gras season, with masked society members tossing small gifts, known as spear viewers the parade.

Mobile first celebrated Carnival in 1703, when French settlers began the festivities in the old mobile site. One way the company began in 1704 in Mobile mystic Societ Santa Luisa, founded by French soldiers at Fort Saint-Louis de la Mobile, and later became another company Mobile Carnival in 1711, the Boeuf Gras Society (Ox Gordo, 17,111,861). Mobile Cowbellion Rakin Society was the first formally organized and masked mystic society in the United States to celebrate with a parade, in 1830: Handbell made his debut in a cotton broker in Pennsylvania, Michael Krafft, began a parade with rakes, hoes, and cowbells. Handbell horse floats entered the parade in 1840 with a parade called pagan gods and goddesses. Strikers Independent Society was established in 1843 and is the oldest mystic society in the United States.

Carnival phones have been canceled during the Civil War, but the Mardi Gras parades have been received by Joe Cain in 1866, when they marched through the streets in a car, Fat Tuesday while costumed as a masterpiece of fiction called Slacabamorinico Chickasaw, irreverent celebrating the day in front of the occupation troops of the Union Army. Order myths, the oldest mystical society Mobile, which continues to parade, was founded in 1867 and held its first parade on Mardi Gras night in 1868. Infant Mystics also began the parade of Mardi Gras night in 1868, but later moved their parade to Lundi Gras (Fat Tuesday). The Mobile Carnival De Leon Association was founded in 1871 to coordinate the events of Mardi Gras, so in 1872 the first Royal Court has stated, with the first king of Carnival, Emperor Felix I. Comic Cowboys Wragg Marsh was created in 1884 with the mission of satire and freedom of expression. Continental Mystic crew mystic society was founded in 1890, was the main driving force of society of Jewish mysticism. The Order of Doves society was founded in 1894 and held its first Mardi Gras Ball mystical. It was the first organized African American mystic society in Mobile.

Infant Mystics (1868), the company continues the second oldest parade, introduced the first electric mobile fleet 1929. The color Mobile Carnival Association was founded and has its first parade in 1939 (more later renamed the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association MAMGA) then install the first black Mardi Gras Court in 1940 with the coronation of King Elexis I and his queen. The Conde Cavaliers was founded in 1977 (Parade 1978) and maintain the first show of the season, such as parades arrested on New Year's Eve. After the head of the little known and now defunct Krewe of Pan and Apollo apostles of companies composed of homosexuals in the city and / or the lesbian community, the Order of Osiris held 1980 his first ball. Now is one of the most anticipated shots of the Carnival season and sought after invitation. Another Gay society, the Brotherhood Adonis, celebrated his first shot on the eve of New Year's 1991, but has now disappeared from the social scene. The Mobile International Carnival Ball was held in 1993 with all the knowledge society Mobile mystic patronage. The year 2002 has been celebrated with parades Mobile Tercentenary representing all Mobile mystic societies.

Latest mystic parades and events

The schedule of parades and mystical events, listed below, reveals aspects of reputation in various sectors during the carnival Mobile season.

2009 Mardi Gras calendar:

Saturday, January 24

13:00 Krewe De La Dauphine Parade (Dauphin Island)

Saturday, January 31

1:00 pm Island Mystics Parade (Dauphin Island)

Friday, February 6

Conde Cavaliers Parade 18:30

Saturday, February 7

2:30 pm The Parade of the company Bayport

18:30 Parade of the Pharaohs (www.thepharaohs.org)

Conde Explorers Parade 19:00

Thursday, February 12

18:30 Polka Parade Order of points

Friday, February 13

6:30 a.m. Parade College Inca (www.orderofinca.com)

Saturday, February 14

Mobile Mystics Parade 14:00 (www.mobilemystics.com)

6:30 a.m. Parade joy Maids

7:00 pm Order of Butterfly Maidens Parade

7:30 pm Krewe of Marry Mates

Sunday, February 15

Neptune's Daughters Parade 18:30

Monday, February 16

Mobile Mystical Ladies Parade 18:30

19:00 Order of Venus Parade

Tuesday 17 February

6:30 pm Order of Lash (sic) Parade

Thursday, February 19 (Wednesday is the day of rain)

Mystic Stripers Parade 6:30 pm Society

Friday, February 20

18:30 Crewe of Columbus Parade

Saturday, February 21

24:00 Floral Parade

Parade of Knights of Mobile 12:30

Order Parade Angeles 13:00

6:00 pm Mystics of Time Parade

Coronation 18:30 of Queen to King Felix III (Mobile Convention Center)

Sunday, February 22

13:00 Arrival of King Elexis I (at foot of Government Street)

2:30 pm Joe Cain Procession

Krewe de Bienville Parade 17:00

17:30 Women's parade Cassettes

20:15 Coronation King Elexis (Centro Civic Mobile)

Monday, February 23

11:00 Arrival of King Felix III (name of mobile carnival king) in Saint-Government

Parade 12:00 noon and Felix Floral Parade

Martin Luther King 15:00 Business and Civic Organization Parade (rolls on Route D)

15:30 Martin Luther King Monday Mystics Parade (rolls on Route D)

16:00 Northside Merchants Parade (rolls on Route D)

6:30 pm Mystics Children's Parade

Tuesday, February 24

(Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday day, provided the day before Ash Wednesday)

10:30 Order Athena Parade

12:30 Knights of Revelry Parade

King Felix Parade III 13:00

Comic Cowboys Parade 13:30

Tuesday 14:00 Mobile Area Gras Association (rolls on Route B)

18:30 Order of Myths Parade (rolls on Route C)

Thus, the parade is required by the order end of the myths (OOM), the oldest parade in the mobile society Tuesday mystical (founded 1867).

Legal Restrictions

Through centuries, laws have established mobile restrict certain types of behavior during the carnival season. Statutes mobile activities are regulated for reasons of race, immorality, noise, masks, gloves, parade, fireworks, and discarded objects. In 1826, people of color were required to obtain licenses to celebrate meetings or dances in 1845, the balls were banned in households free blacks and slaves (although not native), and in 1866, laws restricted the noise or any part of "people immoral or disorderly "could be collected:

1826: According to Article 7 of the City of Mobile Ordinance 4, entitled "An Ordinance to establish a town in the watch and regulate the rights of Watchmen, "no ball, dance, or group of persons of color be allowed in the city unless they first obtain a permission from the mayor or councilman, unlicensed past 1:00 a.m.;

1845: A city ordinance prohibits mobile free black slaves to keep the balls in place residence, the prohibition does not include the Creoles in Mobile, which had a separate status in American society as it is written in the Treaty of Paris in 1803 (Louisiana) Thomas Jefferson, Alabama, became a state in 1819, giving American citizens the protection after Mobile was a colony of Spain, 17,801,812.

After 1902, the use of masks have been largely limited to mystic societies or children under 12 years. In 1918, the masking public was banned in the mobile during the First World War (repealed 1920), 1947, the masks were limited to only mystics, along with a gunman masking was forbidden "to wear gloves or hidden hands" or covered. After 1957, the public were allowed to wear masks, but only by day Mardi Gras 9:00 to 21:00, or as members of mystic societies.

Due to security concerns, in 1987, fireworks were banned during the Mardi Gras. The city also small pets in the areas of State, skateboards and scooters, prohibited firearms, and the public to launch an object the parade.

While many tourists who visit might think of Mardi Gras as an adult "holiday, local residents see it as a moment of family traditions, in fact, many of the shows viewed primarily as sources of pleasure for children. Many families with young children gather along the parade route in downtown. The city discourages nudity, public drunkenness and other lewd behavior, which can lead to a quick stop.

Brief Glossary

The Mobile Mardi Gras season uses several terms that have special meaning to the events:

Carnival: The festival season (A term used in the Spanish period in Mobile, 17,801,812), generally the January 6 Epiphany, Mardi Gras, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday;

Lundi Gras (Fat Monday) on Monday before Lent;

Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday") on the Tuesday before Lent, is also referred to several weeks of the festival of Carnival;

King Felix III: King of the Mobile Mardi Gras contemporary

mystic secret society formed company for any annual carnival;

Krewe parade, the company has an annual basis, parades;

table: a historical event, and

cast: a donation to cast a float to viewers.