ige 8/The Battalion/Monday, November 14,1983
'Hurricane” creator dies
United Press International
'JEW ORLEANS — A funeral
s scheduled Saturday for Pat
EJrien, who became famous
drinks called Hurricanes
i a French Quarter bar that
irs his name.
O’Brien, co-owner of the
dmark French Quarter bar
O’Brien’s, died Thursday at
his Covington home after a long
illness. He was 89.
Services were scheduled at
Schoen Funeral Home in
Covington Saturday, with burial
following at Pilgrim’s Rest
Cemetery.
O’Brien opened a package li
quor store in the French Quar
ter Dec. 3,1933, but soon moved
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to St. Peter Street to open a bar.
Friends said he realized people
would rather drink in a bar than
carry liquor home.
Four years later, Charlie Can
trell became his partner. George
Oechsner, the bar’s former gen
eral manager and now its vice
president, said Thursday
O’Brien and Cantrell made a
perfect pair.
“Charlie was a very shrewd
1 businessman,” Oechsner said.
“Mr. Pat was a back-slapper, and
he didn’t want to be bothered
with any details.
“He wanted to make the cus
tomers come in and enjoy them
selves. Pat let Charlie run the
business, and Charlie let Pat
handle the customers,” he said.
The partners in the late 1930s
wanted to move the bar and
were interested in a building a
block from the original site.
That building was erected in
1791 to house the first Spanish
theater in the United States.
But the partners had to buy
the building without seeing it,
Oechsner said, because the own
er would not permit them in
side. The partners had to perch
on stepladders in a courtyard
next door to see what they could.
They made the owner an offer,
which he accepted.
A mirrored bar and a lounge
with twin pianos, where sing-
alongs are popular with tourists
and locals alike, flank the car
riageway entrance. Another bar
is in the rear courtyard, com
plete with a flaming fountain.
O’Brien was born in Chatta
nooga, Tenn., and grew up in
Birmingham, Ala. He served in
the Army’s Rainbow Division in
World War I and received a Pur
ple Heart.
After the war, he became a
tobacco salesman and moved to
Houston. In the 1920s he sold
stocks and bonds in Texas. But
when the stock market crashed
in 1929, O’Brien struck out for
Los Angeles to try to make his
fortune. In 1972, however, that
venture failed.
O’Brien returned to Birming
ham, sold his last piece of prop
erty and was heading back to
Texas when he passed through
New Orleans. O’Brien once said
some friends convinced him to
“hang around for a few days,”
and he stayed the rest of his life.
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kills aunt
United Prc«* International
MILWAUKEE — After
Dorothy Blask stepped on an
Amtrak train to Dallas, she told
her nephew it would be her last
train ride.
It was.
Five cars of the Amtrak Eagle
derailed Saturday near Mar
shall, Texas, killing 74-year-old
Blask of Milwaukee, and three
others.
James Blask, the woman’s
nephew, took the elder Blask
and her sister to the station in
Milwaukee Friday afternoon.
He couldn’t get off in time and
ended up riding with them to
Glenview, Ill.
“On the way down, Dorothy
said, ‘Jimmy, this may be my last
train ride,”’ Blask said.
Blask and her sister, Matti
Gigl, 80, were on their way to
Dallas to start a new life. They
had rented an apartment in
North Dallas and planned to live
near Gigl’s son William, a civil
engineer.
Blask said his aunt was caring
woman, always happy and gre
garious. Her fiance died in
World War II. She never mar
ried and devoted herself to her
family after his death. ,
When Gigl’s husband became
ill with cancer, Blask moved in
with her and they stayed
together after he died.
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