B Street : the notorious playground of Coulee Dam / Lawney L. Reyes.
B Street tells stories about the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the workmen who built the Grand Coulee Dam spent their recreational hours and wages. From the beginning, B Street was the place to play and let off steam for the white workingmen who had faced the hard times of t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment.
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| Summary: | B Street tells stories about the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the workmen who built the Grand Coulee Dam spent their recreational hours and wages. From the beginning, B Street was the place to play and let off steam for the white workingmen who had faced the hard times of the Depression. It was a raucous playground that denied blacks and most dark-skinned Indians access to the frivolity, good times, and pretty ladies that were the main attractions of that provocative place. --From publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 155 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) |
| ISBN: | 9780295803340 0295803347 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |