Invoice for a car purchased by O'Dwyers.

ID: 5488 ~ Source: Courtesy of Ashton O'Dwyer, private collection.
This file appears in: O'Dwyer's Club

This document shows the purchasing of a well-equipped Cadillac Town Sedan by Mr. R. T. O'Dwyer in 1937. Clearly, the business was going well at the time. Fancy cars and limousines were a common sight around the gaming clubs.

This file appears in: O'Dwyer's Club

By Christina Lawrence
According to Al Kleindienst, a long-time resident of the Greater New Orleans Area, the O'Dwyer family opened a gambling club at 100 Jefferson Highway in 1949 called "O'Dwyer's." The O'Dwyer brothers…