1916 Zulu, which has been poking informal fun at Rex for almost a decade, is officially incorporated. The first king rules with a banana stalk scepter and a lard can crown. Rex arrives at the city via steamboat, Zulu via oyster lugger. Alla becomes the first group to parade on the West Bank. The Krewe of Venus becomes the first parade to have all-female riders.
Crowds hurl refuse at the maskers on board.
It proved instantly popular, and was copied by other new krewes. 1992 New Orleans enacts a city ordinance requiring all parading krewes to open their private membership. Rex opens membership to blacks, as many other krewes already had done. Native son Harry Connick Jr. helps create Carnival's latest show-stopping organization, the Krewe of Orpheus. The above information was gathered from Right click to stop music.