Here's the meaning behind those flashy Mardi Gras beads. If you attend a Mardi Gras ... royal and mythological figures, organizing to throw different items representing wealth to the people ...

The City of Lake Charles partnered with a local non-profit to help collect beads that clients at Autism Services will clean and sort them to re-sell. “Then we turn around and are able to sell them to ...

From dresses and skirts to colorful beads ... her Mardi Gras pants. Many embraced the traditional purple, yellow, and green colors, with a few adding their own personal touches. “Throw me ...

“Throw me something” is what you’ll need to yell to score some sought-after Mardi Gras beads, those signature strands for years made of glass but now mostly plastic. People who catch them ...

By Sara Bonisteel They throw lots ... plastic beads and stuffed animals, glittered shoes and doubloons, light-up swords and toilet plungers. But cookbooks? The Krewe da Bhan Gras, a group that ...

I knew not the art of catching a throw listed by Vincent Spear in his 1969 pamphlet, Techniques of Mardi Gras Throw-Catching ... are Japanese mercury glass beads, made during World War II ...

A float rider throws a hula hoop to the crowd during the Gulf Coast Carnival Association Mardi Gras parade in Biloxi on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Float riders throw beads to the crowd during the ...

Mardi Gras Galveston has taken over the island ... The parade throws the beads at us. We throw the beads back. It’s amazing.” First-timers also had a great time collecting beads.

66. Yikes! Mardi Gras beads used to be made of glass. 67. Want beads? Yell "Throw me something, mister!" 68. The mayor of New Orleans crowns a King of Carnival each year and honors them with a key ...