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French Quarter residents and her many fans mourn the passing today of Ruth Moulton aka Ruthie the Duck Girl..

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"For almost 50 years, she has been a living, loopy, ambulatory French Quarter landmark: Miss Ruthie the Duck Girl, a sidewalk sideshow followed by waddling water fowl and wide-eyed tourists. For a while, she was Ruthie on wheels, roller-skating to the beat of a different drummer. And she's also been Ruthie the wild bride of the streets, trailing veils as she makes her rounds, cadging beers and smokes "for later," smilingly sweet one moment, cursing a blue streak the next. ...Outlandish and capricious, she's the last of the great Quarter characters, an eccentric on a scale both lowly and grand..."
~ David Cuthbert, The Times Picayune


http://www.eccentricneworleans.com/ruthie.htm

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