US | New Orleans Can't Make It to Mardi Gras? Try ParadeCam Well, usually it's StreetcarCam, but come Carnival season... By Harry Kimball Posted Feb 16, 2010 1:04 PM CST Copied Pete Fountain's Half Fast Walking Club parades through the streets of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. This is the 50th year Fountain has led his group celebrating the all day street party known as Mardi Gras. (AP Photo/Bill Haber) For all those who can't make it down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras this year, the Times-Picayune has a solution: ParadeCam. Most of the year the camera that films the intersection of Napoleon Street and St. Charles Avenue is called StreetcarCam, but come Fat Tuesday...voila, a remote feed from a popular viewing spot. Click here to view the revelry happening at that location and others: The BourboCam shows the Bourbon Street party beginning at 4pm. Read These Next CBS News boss pulls 60 Minutes segment critical of Trump policy. Camera records 'dirty eruption' at Yellowstone National Park. The new US squeeze on Venezuela may be a disaster for Cuba. Slate examines the 'spiritual rot' of today's Vegas. Report an error