B Street : the notorious playground of Coulee Dam /

Reyes, Lawney L.

B Street : the notorious playground of Coulee Dam / Lawney L. Reyes. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource (xxii, 155 pages) - - Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Moccasin telegraph -- The town hall -- Family planning -- B Street -- Working stiffs -- Pretty ladies -- Woo dip -- Show business -- The China man -- Ceremony of tears.

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.



9780295803340

2021694490


Colville Indians--History.
Colville Indians--Government relations.
Water resources development--History.--Columbia River Watershed


Electronic Books.

E99 / .B787 2008