How To Live On $15 A Week - Stormy's Casino Royale New Orleans 1940s

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How To Live On $15 A Week - Stormy's Casino Royale New Orleans 1940sThe management of Stormy's Casino Royale, burlesque central in New Orleans in the 1940s, was a wisecracking bunch. The witty advice on how to live on $15 a week probably says a lot about the character of the clientele. The booze list was short and sweet. The Tassell Cocktail contained Hadacol, a famously alcoholic vitamin tonic that turned out to be a hoax and we think this was another "in" joke. Evangeline the Oyster Girl, whiose real name was Kitty

Postcards of the interior show lavishly decorated rooms with Chinese lanterns hanging from a blue ceiling

This 1885 menu illustrates how wealthy the northern English city of Bradford was at the end of the 19th century

the year of the Battle of Gettysburg

once one of London's most famous restaurants

Formal menus in Buckingham Palace are still written in French

50 and coffee at ten cents

It had a small restaurant inside called "Chow"

An orchestra played in the afternoons and evenings

The floral menu cover design was typical of the era

The ballroom

my family sometimes dined at a Chinese restaurant called the Mandarin Inn

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