Huerstel's

We would go to Huerstel's on St. Claude, about a block away from Nicholls for lunch in the room next to the bar. A young women was there one day, sitting at a back table, with her hair set in pin curls. Each curl was wrapped with small torn pieces of Binder's french bread wrappers and secured with bobby pins. She was painting her nails and explaining to her friend, 'Ya know, I luv dis clearless polish, it goes wit everything. I have always remembered this scene with great fondness, and as the epitomy of the neighbahood culcha.
This vignette occurred circa 1960.
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