This book is a series of photos dealing with the television industry in New Orleans area before the advent of modern cable networks. It is the golden age of New Orleans television. The book starts off chronologically, beginning with the birth of the first local tv station. Each page is filled with picture after picture of classic New Orleans tv anchors, host, and programming. The book does not provide a reference list. Instead, every photo has a caption with it, providing a short description as well as stating the photo collections that provided it. This is an interesting choice for an american history class. The photos provide a great peek at what life/ society was like at that time, especially since all of the photos are in black & white, which many students have never seen before. Just looking at the photos makes you what to ask questions: why do they look like that, what was there life like, what makes them different than me. ( )