“Hey dawlin!”

That was the greeting that Ronnie Taylor gave every lady who walked through the doors of the venerable Ye Olde College Inn on the corner of Carrollton Avenue and Earhart Boulevard. Established in 1933, it has been as much a New Orleans institution as Mosca’s Restaurant in Westwego.

Taylor died July 13 of a massive heart attack helping his sister Cookie White prepare her home for a celebration of life for her husband Mike White, who had dementia and passed away. Ronnie was installing a new pump in the fountain in her front yard, as he thought it would make her house look nicer as guests entered the house.

As he was finishing he asked his sister to help him put the bowl back on the fountain because it was heavy. She picked up one side, and he picked up the other. As he pic

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