NEW ORLEANS — P&J Oyster Company sits in the business district of downtown New Orleans in the historic French Quarter and has for more than a century.
The company was founded in 1876, which is the same year the first telephone call was made, when this country had only 38 states.
A lot has happened since then but nothing, not even Hurricane Katrina, has forced the family-run business to the verge of shattering until now.
BP, responsible for the Deepwater Horizon explosion April 20 killing 11 men and contaminating miles of water in the Gulf of Mexico, also shares a part in the impending demise of a 134-year-old oyster house.
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