New Orleans In The Forties

Author : Mary Lou Widmer
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 145560951X

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New Orleans in the Forties by Mary Lou Widmer Pdf

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, or frolicking at Pontchartrain Beach Amusement Park. This volume in the series explores the many changes that New Orleanians and their city went through before, during, and after the trying times of World War II. Mrs. Widmer fondly remembers the forties as she examines the city socially, politically, and architecturally, and includes a look at popular fads, sports, and other entertainment that boomed during this period in history. She takes a look at the expanding suburbs of New Orleans, and the effects that the end of the war had on growth and development in areas such as Gentilly Woods and the lakefront. The book also surveys the fashions of the day, and discusses developments in science and technology, with particular attention given to television and its effect upon society.

Author : Mary Lou Widmer
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1417799358

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New Orleans in the Forties by Mary Lou Widmer Pdf

Author : Charles Suhor
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461660026

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Jazz in New Orleans by Charles Suhor Pdf

Jazz in New Orleans provides accurate information about, and an insightful interpretation of, jazz in New Orleans from the end of World War II through 1970.

Author : Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130666246

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Occasional Paper - U.S. Southern Forest Experiment Station, New Orleans by Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La.) Pdf

Author : Eliza Ripley
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783755463702

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Social life in old New Orleans by Eliza Ripley Pdf

“Children should be seen and not heard.” Children were neither seen nor heard in the days of which I write, the days of 1840. They led the simple life, going and coming in their own unobtrusive way, making no stir in fashionable circles, with laces and flounces and feathered hats. There were no ready-made garments then for grown-ups, much less for children. It was before California gold mines, before the Mexican war, before money was so abundant that we children could turn up our little noses at a picayune. I recall the time when Alfred Munroe descended from Boston upon the mercantile world of New Orleans, and opened on Camp Street a “one price” clothing store for men. Nobody had ever heard of one price, and no deviation, for anything, from a chicken to a plantation. The fun of hectoring over price, and feeling, no matter how the trade ended, you had a bargain after all, was denied the customers of Mr. Alfred Munroe. The innovation was startling, but Munroe retired with a fortune in course of time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 145560769X

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Louisiana Almanac by Anonim Pdf

"A million facts that range from merely interesting to absolutely vital." -- Louisiana Life " Having [Louisiana Almanac] . . . is like having all the answers to what is happening in the State of Louisiana." -- The Louisiana Weekly "An invaluable tool to people looking to move into the area." -- The Slidell Sentry-News Known for its politics, its natural resources, and its colorful history, the Pelican State is one of the most interesting in America. For more than fifty years, Louisiana Almanac has been the authoritative guide to a million facts about Louisiana, and this painstakingly updated seventeenth edition consists of 720 useful pages of information for ready reference. The wealth of maps, charts, tables, and graphs makes the data and statistics easily accessible as well. No Louisiana business, classroom, or library should be without a current copy of the Louisiana Almanac.

Author : John Wymond,Henry Plauché Dart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Louisiana
ISBN : UCAL:B3609731

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The Louisiana Historical Quarterly by John Wymond,Henry Plauché Dart Pdf

Author : Joachim-Ernst Berendt,Günther Huesmann
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 1151 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781613746042

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The Jazz Book by Joachim-Ernst Berendt,Günther Huesmann Pdf

For fifty years The Jazz Book has been the most encyclopedic interpretive history of jazz available in one volume. In this new seventh edition, each chapter has been completely revised and expanded to incorporate the dominant styles and musicians since the book’s last publication in 1992, as well as the fruits of current research about earlier periods in the history of jazz. In addition, new chapters have been added on John Zorn, jazz in the 1990s and beyond, samplers, the tuba, the harmonica, non-Western instruments, postmodernist and repertory big bands, how the avant-garde has explored tradition, and many other subjects. With a widespread resurgence of interest in jazz, The Jazz Book will continue well into the 21st century to fill the need for information about an art form widely regarded as America’s greatest contribution to the world’s musical culture.

Author : Cecile J. Picou
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798891552531

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Apex Blues by Cecile J. Picou Pdf

Apex Blues chronicles the extraordinary lives and musical legacies of two generation-spanning Jazz clarinet virtuosos: Jimmie Noone Sr. and his son Jimmy Noone Jr. Jimmie Noone Sr. rose to fame in the 1910s New Orleans French Quarter jazz scene, forging his iconic ‘Sweet Lorraine’ style during the dawn of the genre. Later, his son Jimmy initially made waves as a San Diego local musician before feeling called to follow in his father’s footsteps. He set out to revive his dad’s New Orleans Jazz sound and mentorship. As the author witnesses firsthand, Jimmy exceeds even his father’s musical heights through raw talent and relentless dedication to his craft. In his final days, he completes his quest: to honor Jazz history by propelling his father’s sound into the future. Jimmy cements the Noone legacy, ensuring the nation remembers what sublime Jazz can be. Spanning generations, geographies, and evolutions of musical style, Apex Blues captures how two clarinet greats shepherded Jazz from regional obscurity into an acclaimed American art form.

Author : David Honeyboy Edwards
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781556529825

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The World Don't Owe Me Nothing by David Honeyboy Edwards Pdf

This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy's stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs will marvel at his unique perspective and firsthand accounts of the 1927 Mississippi River flood, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, plantation life, and the Depression.

Author : United States. Congress. Committee on Public Lands,United States. Congress. Senate. Public Lands Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Oil and gas leases
ISBN : NYPL:33433019659873

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Relief of Settlers Within the Grant to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Railroad Co by United States. Congress. Committee on Public Lands,United States. Congress. Senate. Public Lands Committee Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Public Lands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Public lands
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7DSW

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Relief of Settlers Within the Grant to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Railroad Co by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Public Lands Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Public lands
ISBN : NYPL:33433004204099

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Relief of Settlers Within the Grant to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Railroad Co by Anonim Pdf

Author : Louis C. Hunter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780486157788

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Steamboats on the Western Rivers by Louis C. Hunter Pdf

Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.

Author : Russell Roy Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UIUC:30112104067340

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1966 Harvest, Crossett Farm Forestry Forties by Russell Roy Reynolds Pdf