Mobile native Joe Cain wears the costume of his Mardi Gras alter ego, Chief Slackabamarinico, a fictional character that he invented to serve as the parade's first grand marshal in 1886.
Joe Cain
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Courtesy of The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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