First-year Loyola students, along with Assistant Professor of history Justin Nystrom are participating in video documentaries highlighting rare oral histories of New Orleans as a part of their classes. Students are working on preserving the history of Dooky Chase Restaurant using Loyola’s new Documentary and Oral History Studio, launched and directed by Nystrom in the summer of 2012 as part of a program that combines oral history with documentary filmmaking.
Freshmen interviewed former employees who worked in the restaurant in its beginnings in the 1940s and 1950s.
