Mardi Gras 2023
- Mardi Gras celebration in St. Louis began with four friends who wanted something to do after a snowstorm in 1980
- The Grand Parade was only a Soulard neighborhood event that grew in the 1990s due to unseasonably warm weather
- In 1999, nonprofits Mardi Gras, Inc., and the Mardi Gras Foundation were formed to run and organize the parade and other events