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The melodious wail of street vendors announcing their wares was a customary and welcomed sound in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. New Orleans housewives enjoyed front door service, from fruits and vegetables to ice and milk, from knife sharpeners to umbrella repairmen. To buy dry goods, they traveled to D.H. Holmes and Maison Blanche department stores, located on bustling Canal Street. Fashions became more subdued during WWI, as New Orleanians joined the war effort with zeal, showing their patriotism by exceeding the city's quota for liberty bond sales.

New Orleans lived through its share of health calamities with the outbreak and ...

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The melodious wail of street vendors announcing their wares was a customary and welcomed sound in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. New Orleans housewives enjoyed front door service, from fruits and vegetables to ice and milk, from knife sharpeners to umbrella repairmen. To buy dry goods, they traveled to D.H. Holmes and Maison Blanche department stores, located on bustling Canal Street. Fashions became more subdued during WWI, as New Orleanians joined the war effort with zeal, showing their patriotism by exceeding the city's quota for liberty bond sales.

New Orleans lived through its share of health calamities with the outbreak and eradication of yellow fever and the bubonic plague, epidemics that help explain why the national life expectancy of the time was only forty-seven. This was only the beginning of quality-of-life improvements in New Orleans, a city expanding to new suburban neighborhood homes with indoor plumbing and electricity. New Orleanians and Crescent City devotees will revel in the memories.

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Mary Lou Widmer is a native New Orleanian. She has served as president of the South Louisiana Chapter of Romance Writers of America and has written several articles for New Orleans publications. Widmer is the author of New Orleans in the Twenties, New Orleans in the Thirties, New Orleans in the Forties, New Orleans in the Fifties, and New Orleans in the Sixties, all published by Pelican.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781589804012
  • Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/28/2007
  • Pages: 160
  • Sales rank: 705,970
  • Series: New Orleans History Ser.
  • Product dimensions: 8.80 (w) x 11.00 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Mary Lou Widmer, a native of New Orleans, is former president of the South Louisiana Chapter of Romance Writers of America. She has written several novels set in New Orleans. A certified descendant of settlers in the area prior to the Louisiana Purchase, she is a member of the Louisiana Colonials and the Daughters of 1812. She is also the author of New Orleans in the Twenties, New Orleans in the Thirties, New Orleans in the Forties, New Orleans in the Fifties, New Orleans in the Sixties, and Margaret, Friend of Orphans, all published by Pelican.

Table of Contents


Foreword     9
Preface     11
Acknowledgments     13
The Neighborhoods     17
The Electric Era     35
Family Life     41
Politics: Mayors and Suffragettes     55
Celebrating the Centennial     63
Parks, Camps, and Amusement Centers     69
Panic in the Streets     79
The Arts     91
Storyville     97
The Sicilian Immigration     103
Fashions: Hems and Hobble Skirts     111
The War to End All Wars     117
Architecture     123
Health Care     133
Lagniappe     137
All Around the Town     139
Index     149

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 21, 2007

    Grear Author Strikes it Right again

    Mary Lou Widmer knows her stuff. All you have to do is read a page or two of any non fiction book of hers for almost any info you need. I own the 50's and 60's right now, I just need my gift card to continue to buy my favorite historians books.

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