Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Dec. 14, 1943

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It was a very cold, rainy and windy day in New Orleans. Thelma baked cookies in the morning. Lowell was building a grocery cart for Thelma to make it easier to haul groceries home since they didn’t own a car and depended on public transportation. They brought their Christmas tree inside — Lowell bought it a week ago — and mailed some more Christmas car…