B Street : the notorious playground of Coulee Dam

by Lawney L. Reyes

Paperback, 2008

Status

Available

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.

Description

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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