WLOX-TV News Article | April 9, 2007
Business is perking up for a new coffee shop in Old Town Bay St. Louis. "Mockingbird Cafe" opened exactly a year after Katrina hit.
"We came home and there weren't any of our coffee shops open. Everything was destroyed," said Alicein Chambers.
Alicein and Martin Chambers bought the pre-Civil War house on Second Street, and restored it.
"We wanted to make sure that this building in particular was protected, and not torn down and turned into condos or whatever else people might have planned," Chambers said. "There are so few buildings left." "Some of the buildings in Old Town are probably 100 years or so," said Councilman-at-large Bill Taylor.