New Orleans Magazine, May 1st, 2006
STREET CAR When I first met Ernest and Mary Hansen in 1980, I was a freelancer researching a story for New Orleans Magazine. The topic was snowballs, and I thought I would be talking to a bunch of pimply teens operating stands for summer money. Snowballs as an industry seemed about as simple as splashing syrup on ice, but I would learn otherwise. The business had its giants - those whose innovations set the classic New Orleans-style snowball apart from, say, a snow cone sold at a county fair. If there was a snowball Hall of Fame, two of the central characters would be Ernest and Mary Hansen. ...
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