By Mary Lou Widmer

Chep Morrison was in his prime as mayor during the fifties with the consolidation of train stations and the building of underpasses and overpasses eliminated over 200 street level dangerous crossings. Mardi Gras was cancelled in 1951 as a tribute to the local men fighting in Korea. You may have been in attendance at the Municipal Auditorium in 1956 when Elvis Presley appeared, And you were probably among the first to drive across the Greater New Orleans Bridge to the Westbank and back again. The book is packed with photographs that will delight and entertain you if you lived through the unique decade in New Orleans. If not for you, for someone you know.

Paperback, 175 pages