Lucky Dogs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lucky Dogs write by Jerry E. Strahan. This book was released on 2016-09-21. Lucky Dogs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When walking the French Quarter and watching a Lucky Dog salesman set up that colorful cart and call out to entice customers, don't you wonder how such a business works? As a knowing review in Rolling Stone stated, "People have always loved the cart and harbored a mysterious need to ride it. Revelers have been known to climb on top of the rolling wienies, screaming 'Yippee kaya!' as vendors stoically push them back to the barn at 4 a.m." Since 1947 the red and yellow carts have trumpeted good fortune and sustenance. Jerry E. Strahan recounts the wild adventures of the Bourbon Street wienie salesmen but also takes readers well beyond New Orleans. In fact, he takes them halfway around the world, where this unique pushcart business maneuvered its way through the bureaucratic red tape of a communist country to become a licensed corporation in the People's Republic of China. In China, two points quickly became apparent to Strahan. First, 99 percent of the Chinese population had no idea what a Lucky Dog cart represented. One elderly passerby declared it to be a missile. Second, the success or failure of any joint venture in the Asian nation is directly proportional to the political clout of that company's local partner. Lucky Dogs also recounts how the business and its vendors survived Hurricane Katrina. Miraculously, it reopened only six months after the storm in a city where more than 80 percent of the landmass had been flooded and where less than 40 percent of the population had returned. To reestablish itself in what many described as Third World conditions, the company had to transform its operation. This work mixes business history, autobiography, survival story, and an insider's look at the bizarre lives of some of Bourbon Street's most quirky characters--the dauntless Lucky Dog vendors. Both humorous and tragic, though it may read like fiction, it is, for better or worse, all fact.
Lucky Dog
Lucky Dog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lucky Dog write by Sarah Boston. This book was released on 2014-05-30. Lucky Dog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lucky Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets. What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen’s term: cancer surgery doctor) thinks she has cancer herself? Enter Sarah Boston: a vet who suspects a suspicious growth in her neck is thyroid cancer. From the moment she uses her husband’s portable ultrasound machine to investigate her lump — he’s a vet, too — it’s clear this will not be your typical cancer memoir. She takes us on a hysterical and thought-provoking journey through the human health care system from the perspective of an animal doctor. Weaving funny and poignant stories of dogs she’s treated along the way, this is an insightful memoir about what the human medical world can learn from the way we treat our canine counterparts. Lucky Dog teaches us to trust our instincts, be our own advocates, and laugh while we’re doing it.
A Lucky Dog
A Lucky Dog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Lucky Dog write by Dirk Wales. This book was released on 2003. A Lucky Dog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true story of Owney, a dog who traveled all over the U.S.A. on mail trains from 1888 to 1896.
Penny and Clover, Up and Over!
Penny and Clover, Up and Over! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Penny and Clover, Up and Over! write by Erica S. Perl. This book was released on 2020-06-16. Penny and Clover, Up and Over! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learning to read doesn't need to be ruff with this rhyming tail about a pair of lovable pups! Penny is a small, frisky puppy. Clover is a big, careful canine. While Penny has no problem jumping over a log, Clover isn't so sure she can do it. Can Clover come up with the courage to take a leap of faith and follow her friend?
Managing Ignatius
Managing Ignatius - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing Ignatius write by Jerry Strahan. This book was released on 1999-02-16. Managing Ignatius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A real-life Confederacy of Dunces.”—Kirkus Reviews When Jerry Strahan became manager of the Lucky Dogs hot dog cart in 1970s New Orleans, he assumed leadership of the most misfit crew of hot dog vendors in the French Quarter. In Managing Ignatius, Strahan recounts his two decades of hilarious dealings with outrageous characters including drifters, drunks, swindlers, transvestites, and the occasional college kid whose hawking refrain “don’t be a meanie, buy a weanie” still echoes through the French Quarter. As the straight man for the absurdity surrounding him, Strahan mediates disputes with loan sharks, pimps, and jealous lovers—and creates an unforgettable portrait of the delights and debauchery of the Crescent City. “Frank and funny . . . Managing Ignatius is an entrepreneurial story that captures the year-round drama of doing business on the street and the seasonal rhythms of the French Quarter.”—The New York Times
