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- Address:
- 1800 Saint Bernard Ave
New Orleans, LA 70116
- Phone:
- 504-948-4777
- Website:
- http://vaucressonsausage.com/
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- Company Information:
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Since 1899, the Vaucresson family has held ground in the heart of New Orleans’ seventh ward commercial corridor. Robert Levinsky Vaucresson was the family forebear who started as a butcher in the Old St. Bernard Meat Market which was located on the corner of St. Bernard and N. Claiborne avenues. In 1933, the City opened a new market with stalls equipped with refrigerated units adjacent to the old one in the location where the Circle Food Store now stands.
Surviving the Depression, but not the expansion of Circle Food Store, in 1949 Robert L. Vaucresson leased a building blocks down St. Bernard Avenue at N. Johnson Street, where now stands a Liberty Bank branch. He and his wife Julia had six children. Their only son, Robert Anthony “Sonny” Vaucresson starting working in the business in 1939. He took over the business when his father died in 1956.
Sonny Vaucresson is who New Orleanians today knew for his restaurant in the French Quarter and those first days of the Jazz Fest and the French Quarter Fest.
His son Vance has upheld the family business with honor. He participates in other Louisiana festivals and volunteers a great deal of time catering events for organizations such as Dollars for Scholars, Sister of the Holy Family, Friends of NORD, and Bridge House.
The company remains in that same neighborhood on St. Bernard Avenue and is also a retail outlet for local customers and visitors who wish to take the flavor of Jazz Fest home.
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