Interview with Buddy Adams, New Orleans resident and barber shop owner.

ID: 1697 ~ Source: Courtesy of Dr. Michael Mizell-Nelson.

This file appears in: "Tolerating" Gambling

"Tolerating" Gambling

By Christina Lawrence & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor

The state of illicit gambling in New Orleans was summed up well in the 1938 WPA New Orleans City Guide, "although gambling is, strictly speaking, illegal, these places are usually open for business…