{"id":3567,"date":"2022-07-18T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T22:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:14:26","slug":"vegas-cola-on-artistry-experimentation-individualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3567","title":{"rendered":"The day Vegas Cola fell out of love with Frenchmen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-39-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-39-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-39-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-39-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-39-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-39-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-39.jpg 1732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>[Vegas Cola near the intersection of Chartres and Frenchmen, Dec 2025. Photo by Camilo Le\u00f3n Quijano.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>VC: <\/strong>That day when the Praline Connection was bought out by the people that own half the French Quarter, that broke my heart, and I fell out of love with Frenchmen. And it\u2019s to no fault of the people who sold it. But it\u2019s just lost its ecosystem. When you think about the owners and the managers of the different venues, I knew them. I played at their Christmas parties. I could actually talk to the manager or the owner of these different places and it had a sense of support. Like, I didn\u2019t feel like if I had a bad night, I was gonna lose my job. It lost that personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>[Read full-length interview <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Vegas Cola near the intersection of Chartres and Frenchmen, Dec 2025. Photo by Camilo Le\u00f3n Quijano.] VC: That day when the Praline Connection was bought out by the people that own half the French Quarter, that broke my heart, and I fell out of love with Frenchmen. And it\u2019s to no fault of the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-interviews","category-interviews","category-quick-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}