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Legendary Locals of Metairie
Metairie is often considered the dull stepchild of New Orleans--a concrete "Anywhere, USA" lined with shopping malls frequented by fast-food eating, drive-up-daiquiri-drinking, cultureless suburbanites. Despite stereotypical misconceptions, sons and daughters of New Orleans who call Metairie home are every bit as colorful, talented, devious, and gracious as their relatives in the city. Johnny Wiggs kept New Orleans jazz alive. Verne Tripp invented "perma-press" and pioneered use of the electron microscope. On Atherton Drive, David Ferrie plotted a Cuban coup. Peter Gennaro left his father's bar to become a Broadway star. Shirley Ann Grau raised her children here while writing novels. Al Scramuzza built a crawfish empire and coached Metairie children. Ellen Degeneres found national fame, while Becky Allen won our hearts at home. Those who may not be widely known but have impacted lives in the community and afar are also included in this book, which is a tribute to the people of Metairie.
Gambling and Organized Crime
Investigates organized crimes illegal gambling activity in dice games, card games, and horse racing. Includes discussion of the role of bookmakers and use of telephone equipment in their illegal gambling activities.
Metairie
A surprising journey through the history and growth of this large city neighboring New Orleans. While New Orleans is recognized the world over for the French Quarter and Mardi Gras, Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, is not as well known. But Metairie has a rich history all its own. What was described two centuries ago as “a tongue of land to lend pasturage” has become the second largest unincorporated city in the nation. The explorer La Salle noticed the river bend that is now Metairie when he descended and ascended the Mississippi River in the spring of 1682. Almost simultaneously with the founding of New Orleans in 1718, John Law’s Company of the West began granting land to European...
Gambling and Organized Crime
Investigates organized crimes illegal gambling activity in dice games, card games, and horse racing. Includes discussion of the role of bookmakers and use of telephone equipment in their illegal gambling activities.
