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And we return to our American stories.

In the heart of New Orleans, Louisiana, by the way, I got married in that beautiful

city, is a long-standing tradition in the form of a coffee shop. If you're familiar with New Orleans,

you know, of course, we're talking about Café Dumont. The original Café Dumont was

was established as a coffee stand in 1862 and has since remained open 24 hours a day, seven days a week,

with the exception of Christmas Day, or the occasional hurricane.

Here is Emily Yeager with the story of this famous coffee shop.

And this one we're doing on location, so you'll have to be dealing with the sounds

and the feel of being in Cafe Dumont.

You know, a lot of people pay some good money to go to a jazz brunch, but you can come here and spend

375 and get just as good of an experience, in my opinion.

So I guess it's kind of a complicated answer

about when I started working here. My mom's grandfather bought the business in

1942. So partly I've been involved since I was born. Both my parents work

here and my brother and my husband now. So been around it my whole life.

So what we're sitting in right now is formally called the French market. Before it was

the French market, it was actually a meat market and a mile of it was all open market.

Obviously it's very warm. So that didn't, that couldn't last for a while.

And the meat market slowly turned into closer to what it is at the end of the French market

building, which is like little stands that people would buy and vegetable, you know, produce,

meat, arts, crafts. We have a lot of different cultures kind of welded together here in New Orleans.

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