Remembering the Up Stairs Lounge: upcoming memorials and panels
 

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This week's cover story about the Up Stairs Lounge fire that killed 32 people in the French Quarter in 1973 drew some discussion online, from those who were surprised they'd never heard of the tragedy to others who remember it well.

"I was a new attorney at the firm that was handling the Up Stairs fire case and the deceased victims claims," local attorney*David Oestreicher of*Oestreicher Law wrote to Gambit.?