So we were on another book run through the French Quarter and Uptown today.  I left books at the Maple Street Book Shop, a fine book store, and at Milk Studio on Decatur Street.  Milk Studio has been around for over five years and counting, the owners are Mindy and Dave, two N’awlins locals with a flare for the creative.  If you’ve ever heard the Benny Grunch and the Bunch’s song ‘Ain’t dere no more’ and you feel a craving for old New Orleans places that are lost forever, you should head down to Milk Studio and stock up on icons from the past.  Some of their hottest items are the ceramic coasters with pictures of memorable and lost, but not forgotten, businesses and products of the past and the present.  Barq’s Root Beer, Godchaux’s Department Store, K&B, McKenzie’s Pastry Shoppes, Schwegmann’s Grocery Store, the Bali Hai, Pontchartrain Beach, Shakey’s Pizza, New Orleans Water Meter covers, the original New Orleans Saints logo… the list goes on and on and on.  You can find these logos on the ceramic coasters, and some of them on t shirts, not to mention the ‘Save My Wetlands’ underwear, ooh lala.  There are also candles of all sorts, framed photographs and artwork as well as, ahem, books by local authors. I’m sure I’m leaving some things out that will surprise you as you peruse their amazing shop space on 1309 Decatur Street in the Quarter.