Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Jan. 4, 1943

Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Jan. 4, 1943

'Stand By for Action' shows at Loew's State Palace

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Kathryn Smith
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Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Jan. 4, 1943
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Thelma went shopping today in uptown New Orleans, buying a photo album, some stationery and a fabric remnant and seeing a movie at Loew’s State Palace on Canal Street. (Click here to see the sad state of this once-grand movie theater.) The film was Stand By for Action, starring Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy and Charles Laughton. The vintage newspaper ad …

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