tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393070263562218152024-03-08T03:08:25.744-06:00Hansen's Sno-BlizNews from Hansen's Sno-Bliz. Thoughts & updates about <a href="http://www.snobliz.com">snobliz.com</a> and the creation of the Sno-Bliz Online Exhibit.Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-56017763852362857582013-03-10T09:59:00.002-05:002013-03-10T09:59:46.125-05:00Opening March 19, 2013We will be opening for the season on March 19, 2013.
We will be open 1-7pm Tuesday-Sunday.Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-64789981230736313712011-04-07T18:16:00.001-05:002011-04-07T18:16:16.548-05:00Hours update<p>We are now open 1-7pm Tuesday-Sunday.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-3959737272970016462011-03-12T08:36:00.001-06:002011-03-12T08:36:46.433-06:00Hansen's Now Open for the Season<p>Hansen's is now open for the 2011 season.</p><p>The current hours are Thursday-Sunday 1-7pm. We will be expanding our hours in April.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-65473176098527618032010-07-14T18:08:00.001-05:002010-07-14T20:54:13.613-05:00Hansen's Sno-Bliz to the rescue with true Sno-Bliz Aid!<p>The debacle in the gulf, and an enduring sense of helplessness, has inspired Hansen's owner Ashley to create a new bliz to help save the marsh and swamps of Louisiana's vanishing coast. At Hansen's, we desperately want to help and do something meaningful, New Orleans-style.</p><p>Come join us in our effort by sipping and slurping our new Swampitoulas Sno-Blizzes and Sodas. These will be served in a special biodegradable cup, designed by local artist Caesar Meadows. Cups are the 16oz size and will cost $5. All proceeds will benefit <a href="http://www.btnep.org" target="_blank">BTNEP, Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program.</p><p><a href="http://snobliz.com/images/swampitoulas_full.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://snobliz.com/images/swampitoulas_460.jpg" alt="Swampitoulas Cup" border=0 style="border:0;padding:0;"></a></p><p>Try one of our new flavors, only available in the Sip-A-Swampitoulas cups:<br /><strong>The Swampitoulas</strong>: verdant vanilla (it's green!)<br /><strong>Brown Pelican</strong>: a frothy root beer cream<br /><strong>LimeAid</strong>: a tart lime.<p><p>You can always get your favorite Hansen's homemade flavor instead.</p><p>Ashley is also bringing back the Sno-Bliz Soda just for the Sip-A-Swampitoulas cup. By adding soda water your sno-bliz is turned into a delicious slushy concoction.</p><p>Help save our swamps and air-condition your tummy at Hansen's Sno-Bliz. Available now.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-33817576069732187682010-06-16T14:30:00.002-05:002010-06-16T14:37:26.095-05:00Introducing Four New Flavors<p>Ashley has created four new flavors: Cardamom, Vanilla Bean, Satsuma (Tart), and Cream of Chocolate Mint. All of these flavors, as well as Limeade, Lemonade, and Cream of Chocolate, are all natural. So head by Hansen's and try them out today.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-31253804767330379552010-03-22T18:26:00.001-05:002010-03-22T18:26:45.669-05:00Opening April 6!<p>Hansen's will be opening for the 2010 season on Tuesday April 6!</p><p>The hours will be Tuesday-Sunday 1-7pm.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-36190895146615211652009-11-12T21:43:00.001-06:002009-11-12T21:43:58.366-06:00Announcing the next generation of Hansens<p>It is my pleasure to announce that today we welcome the next generation of Hansen into the world. Avery Allison Springgate was born this morning to Ashley Hansen Springgate. Both mother and baby are doing well. Ashley told me that she is a beautiful baby and promised to send pictures and more information as soon as she can.</p><p>-Allison (Hansen's Web Master)</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-42075694337564135622009-08-01T20:09:00.001-05:002009-08-01T20:10:48.616-05:00National attention<p>In the past week, Hansen's has been in 3 major newspapers / magazines.</p><p>First, Hansen's was listed as the New Orleans location in USA Today's "<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/10great/2009-07-23-local-diners_N.htm" target="_blank">10 great places to eat regionally, eat well</a>."</p><p>The "<a href="http://www.rachaelraymag.com/every-day-living/trip-advice/food-trip-advice/shaved-ice" target="_blank">eat + run</a>" section of August issue of <em>Every Day with Rachel Ray</em> magazine, focused on shaved ice. Hansen's was one of four in the country that were listed.</p><p>Finally, the Los Angeles Times author Kathy Price-Robinson did "<a href="http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-snowball2-2009aug02" target="_blank">A search for New Orleans' best snowball</a>". In my opinion, she wrote one of the most lovely descriptions of what it is like to visit Hansen's:</p><blockquote><p>"As I watch the creation of my snowball, I feel as though I'm in Ashley's kitchen. She layers the snow and syrup, one after another, snow then syrup, snow then syrup, in a leisurely manner. She isn't so much cycling through the customers as she is honoring her grandparents. What that means, though, is slow service... . [The] wedding cake does not disappoint. It tastes like cake and frosting in a cup and the snow is soft, light and irresistible. It could well be the finest human-made snow on the planet. It's perfect, really."</p></blockquote>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-65786553527764350752009-05-30T19:57:00.001-05:002009-05-30T19:57:40.691-05:00Roadfood at Hansen's<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3573/3421968925_8f8205a942_m.jpg" alt="Roadfood menu" align="right" style="margin:0 0 .5em .5em;">Last month the Louisiana Roadfood Festival tour stopped by Hansen's for some snoballs on their way out to the bayou. </p><p>This is what Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle had to say about it on the <a href="http://www.roadfooddigest.com/post/2009/04/14/Laissez-Les-Bon-Roadfood-Temps-Rouler-Part-9.aspx" target="_blank">Roadfood Digest blog</a>:</p><blockquote><p>This is New Orleans, good people, so Stephen added a Roadfood lagniappe to the trip: on the way, the buses stopped at Hansen's Sno-Bliz! ... There were three flavors available for Roadfooders: Satsuma, Strawberry (?), and Nectar. Did we hear somebody say that Nectar was some sort of citrus/vanilla combo? Satsuma was a tart orange flavor that Sue and Bruce tried and found extremely refreshing. The others were said to be sweeter. You could have had yours with some sweetened condensed milk on top too, if you wished. We wished!</p></blockquote><p>Kiki Maraschino at <a href="http://kikimaraschino.blogspot.com/2009/05/theres-no-biz-like-sno-bliz.html" target="_blank">Here, Eat This</a>:</p><blockquote><p>At Sno Bliz they layer ice and syrup to make sure the ice is fully saturated. When I asked the difference between a snowball and a snow bliz, they said, "well, it is our brand name." They also have a flavor called "bliz" that most people liken to tart strawberry. I love that they have a size called "baby duper".</p></blockquote><p>Other posts about the stop can be found at <a href="http://www.eatingintranslation.com/2009/04/hansens-snobliz.html" target="_blank">Eating in Translation</a> and <a href="http://jetsetfool729.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-orleans-part-4-roadfood-crawfish.html" target="_blank">The Jetsetting Fool Cooks (and Eats!)</a>.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-25636096826805762922009-05-23T13:18:00.001-05:002009-05-23T13:18:54.120-05:00Hansen's Featured on AG Minute<p>TWILA TV's Lauren Thom explores the history of an iconic icy New Orleans treat on the Louisiana Farm Bureau's AG Minute.</p><br /><p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0jHDe3xV2SM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0jHDe3xV2SM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><br />Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-49156703672369952652009-05-18T19:09:00.001-05:002009-05-18T19:09:23.228-05:00Times-Picayune article<p><a href="http://blog.nola.com/brettanderson/2009/05/longtime_tchoupitoulas_street.html" target="_blank">The Times-Picayune ran an article </a> earlier this month about how during the winter months Ernest Hansen's machine got a much needed overhaul. Now it shines like new and is ready to make snoballs for you.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-80722854671583649072009-03-29T11:45:00.001-05:002009-03-29T11:45:44.362-05:00Hours change<p>Until the summer the hours are going to be Tuesday-Sunday 1pm-7pm. Then we will go to the full set of hours that were posted the other day.</p><p>Also, Hansen's will be closed from Good Friday though Easter Sunday.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-36551203326681384352009-03-24T13:44:00.001-05:002009-03-24T13:44:40.000-05:00Opening March 28<p>Hansen's Sno-Bliz will be opening on Saturday, March 28.</p><p>The hours will be:<br>Monday: Closed<br>Tuesday-Thursday: 1pm-7pm<br>Friday-Saturday: 12pm-9pm<br>Sunday: 1pm-7pm</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-48395303457589700292009-01-22T10:53:00.002-06:002009-01-22T10:57:51.131-06:00Facebook pageCheck out the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Orleans-LA/Hansens-Sno-Bliz/24088425668" target="_blank">Hansen's Sno-Bliz Page</a> on Facebook.Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-2085046931653818742008-11-04T12:55:00.000-06:002008-11-23T12:56:46.248-06:00Closed<p>Hansen's is now closed for the season. We will reopen next summer.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-35063270078888638782008-09-23T21:37:00.001-05:002008-09-23T21:38:12.754-05:00Reduced Fall hours<p>After taking a little time off due to Hurricane Gustav, Hansen's has reopened with reduced hours for the Fall.</p><p>The current hours are Wednesday-Saturday from 1pm-7pm.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-89090407392760951632008-08-11T07:41:00.001-05:002008-08-11T07:41:36.471-05:00Online Exhibit Receiving AttentionSince the launch of the Online Exhibit last week, snobliz.com has been noticed by local news sources.<br /><br />Today an article came out in the Times-Picayune called <a href="http://blog.nola.com/mariamontoya/2008/08/hansens_snoblog_landmark_snowb.html" target="_blank">Hansen's Sno-Blog</a>.<br /><br />Last week, the Blog of New Orleans (part of the Gambit) made <a href="http://blogofneworleans.com/blog/2008/08/05/a-history-of-hansens-sno-bliz/" target="_blank">a post</a> about the website and online exhibit.Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-13081891792746809072008-08-08T09:32:00.003-05:002008-08-11T08:50:39.441-05:00Poster session<p>Yesterday was the Capstone Poster session for the iSchool. We each had 90 seconds to present our project and had to make a poster to go with it. I think that the session went very well. I was really happy with how my poster turned out. After watching a few people play with the website, I have a couple of minor changes to make this weekend, which I hope will help with usability.</p><p><a href="http://allison.l.king.googlepages.com/snobliz_poster.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="width: 400px;" src="http://allison.l.king.googlepages.com/snobliz_poster.jpg" border="1" alt="Sno-Bliz Capstone poster" /></a></p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-20156193676638781732008-08-05T07:45:00.001-05:002008-08-05T10:10:26.158-05:00Online Exhibit Live<p><a href="http://www.snobliz.com/exhibit/index.php?g=detail&object_id=6"><img src='http://www.snobliz.com/exhibit/media/hansens_snobliz/images/0/32961_object_representations_media_12_small.jpg' width='240' height='162' border='1' alt='Mary and Ernest Hansen' align="right" style="margin:0px 0px 2px 5px;" /></a>I am very excited to announce that the <a href="http://www.snobliz.com/exhibit/index.php?g=main">Sno-Bliz Online Exhibit</a> is now live. The Online Exhibit is a a collection of Hansen's Sno-Bliz memorabilia, including photographs, signs, articles, and video. </p><p>You can also check out and comment on some of our photographs on our <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/snobliz/" target="_blank">Flickr account</a> and our videos on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/hansensnobliz" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. </p><br clear="all">Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-30383498828730588402008-07-30T16:03:00.001-05:002008-07-30T16:28:19.730-05:00So Close<p>I am so close to launching the Online Exhibit I can almost taste it. As of right now, all of the pages on the site look and behave the way I want them to. I just have a few technical details to work out and some text to polish. </p><p>Uploading items to the exhibit is going well. I'm figuring out some pretty cool tricks that I can do with OpenCollection.</p><p>I've also run ABBY Fine Reader 8 (an OCR program) on many of the articles and other documents and created PDFs (with mostly clean OCR) for many of them which I'm including in the Exhibit.</p><p>If all goes well, I plan to launch the Online Exhibit on Tuesday.</p><p>I also decided to simplify my cataloging. I realized that it did not make sense to separate letters from paper documents, so I folded them into the paper documents category. I've updated my <a href="http://snobliz.blogspot.com/2008/06/naming-schema-for-hansen-sno-bliz.html">Naming Schema</a> to reflect this.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-67002560063473419942008-07-29T11:46:00.001-05:002008-07-29T11:47:20.844-05:00Hansen's Tee-Shirts<p>Hansen's Sno-Bliz Tee-Shirts are back. Printed by local tee-shirt company Dirty Cost, they feature the Hansen's logo (now with triple fleurs-des-lis flag) on a yellow background.</p><p>Can't make it to Hansen's this summer? You can buy the tee-shirts online through <a href="http://www.dirtycoast.com/product_view.php?id=132" target="_blank">Dirty Coast's Online Store</a>.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-4442659990099176192008-07-23T23:11:00.001-05:002008-07-23T23:19:47.674-05:00Online Exhibit Preparation Update<p>I have now gotten both OpenCollection and OpenCollectionAccess (a nice front end for OpenCollection) working on the site. I figured out how to add metadata elements, including <a href="http://dublincore.org/" target="_blank">Dublin Core</a>. I also figured out lots of other things about how to organize stuff in OpenCollection, which I hope will add ease of browse and functionality to the Online Exhibit. </p><p>I also started working on changing the look of OpenCollectionAccess to what I want the Online Exhibit to look like, with some help from my friend Jesse. My friend Maggie pointed out that I need to make sure that the Online Exhibit is obviously a different place than the main site. I think that one of the ways to do this (other than my plan for a top nav and a different break in space for the nav) is to make the roll-over color for images different. The idea is that the color will be the roll over color for "Online Exhibit" on the main site and the "Main Site" link on the Online Exhibit will be blue. I'm thinking about going with a green, since so much of OCA already uses a green color and green is a good sno-ball color. So, the final product will probably look something like this (but I think the green will be darker):<br><a href="http://allison.l.king.googlepages.com/hansens_mockup_archive_v3.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://allison.l.king.googlepages.com/hansens_mockup_archive_v3.jpg" alt="design version 6a" border="1"></a></p><p>I've uploaded and catalogued about 20 images so far. I even re-purposed one of the OC fields to link to a Flickr image of the object, and only show up on display if I've uploaded the image to Flickr. And I figured out how to make Flickr link back to the Online Exhibit. I'm really excited about this as I hope people will use either Flickr or email to let us know more about the pictures that we know almost nothing about. <br /></p><p>As of right now, everything is locked up because I don't want people seeing an unfinished product. I hope to be able to launch everything in a week to a week and a half.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-54532691611034123472008-07-15T11:29:00.001-05:002008-07-15T11:29:25.699-05:00Main site live<p>I am happy to announce that the entirety of the main <a href="http://www.snobliz.com/" target="_blank">Hansen's Sno-Bliz website</a> has gone live. On it you can now find hours, directions, a list of flavors, and a brief history of the snoball stand.</p><p>The Online Exhibit is not live yet, but will be coming in the next few weeks.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-84493014387691748572008-07-13T21:29:00.002-05:002008-07-13T21:35:56.649-05:00OpenCollection<p>After almost a week of trying to figure out everything that needed to be done to start running OpenCollection on SnoBliz.com, it is finally working. Now I can get to the fun part - uploading and cataloging everything that I digitized last month and setting up the Online Exhibit to look just how I want it to. I'm really excited about this. I currently have the directory hidden, but as soon as I get it where I want it, I'll make it public.</p><p>A huge thanks to Jen and Thomas at <a href="http://www.drak.net" target="_blank">drak.net</a>, Seth at <a href="http://www.opencollection.org" target="_blank">OpenCollection.org</a>, and my really good friend Jesse Martinez. I couldn't have done this with out all of y'all.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539307026356221815.post-33512314125046922842008-07-01T12:43:00.001-05:002008-07-02T09:34:24.374-05:00Robbery at Hansen's<p>Hansen's was robbed last Friday at closing time. You can read details about it in the Times-Picayune article <a href="http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-29/121488971982720.xml&coll=1" target="_blank">"Coldblooded character sticks up snowball stand"</a>. Everyone is fine, just a little shaken.</p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684126846861426205noreply@blogger.com1