New Orleans in the Forties

by Mary Lou Widmer

Book Overview

New Orleans in the Forties delightfully documents a time when, though the war raged in Europe, high school girls could still flirt on the streetcar with high school boys, and one made a trip to the movies to see Mary Martin, Lana Turner, or William Holden. The author recalls such youthful, frivolous events as slurping sodas and wolfing down cake at Woolworth's on Canal Street, spending Friday nights at O'Shaugnessy's Bowling Alley on Airline Highway,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158980497X
• ISBN13: 9781589804975
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Insightful

I think this book gives great details of how New orleans was like in the 40'sFantastick!