In addition to two storied eateries, New Orleans will lose what owners describe as the “best, worst, and only Deadhead store in the French Quarter” this month as a nearly nine-month infrastructure project drags on along Decatur Street
“We already had a going-away party,” said Kelsey Wolf, co-owner of Dead on Decatur, a Grateful Dead-themed handicrafts shop. “So now we’re just packing up this month. This is our last week with most of our stock.”
Wolf touted wholesale discounts on glass pipes, rocks, DanceSafe drug test kits and handmade leather bags. She and her husband James Erwin opened Dead on Decatur at 1125 Decatur Street in 2021 as an organic outgrowth of the years they’d spent traveling and selling their wares from a 1996 Ford Econoline van named Brünhilde…