Celebration at the Puppy Bar New Orleans c. 1945. Original photograph Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

From reporter Blake Ponchchartrain writing for GAMBIT “the Best of New Orleans” I was able to identify this great photograph location! It became the Puppy Bar in 1940, so my speculation this was of cebration of the end of WW2 is likely correct. The place was hot..looks like no air conditioning to me. Maybe they shared a bottle of Champagne? If you search “the Puppy Bar” this great article will show up. Here’s the summary: According to a 1975 column by Howard Jacobs in The Times-Picayune, The Puppy House actually was the second name for the club located at that spot. Owner Frank Ferrara opened a club there called The Circus in 1938. The name change must have come soon after, because a 1940 story in The New Orleans Item called it The Puppy House. By 1948, Ferrara had changed the name of the club to the Sho-Bar. He retired in 1958 and sold the Sho-Bar, though it remained a fixture on Bourbon Street for decades. Among performers who took the stage there were Cupcake and Candy Barr, Sally…