Bohemians and Shenanigans in the 1920s French Quarter an excerpt from Dixie Bohemia

“Another attraction was what their friend Flo Field remembered years later as a ‘death-defying platform’ built over the roof. Reached through a window, it offered an escape from the stifling heat of a New Orleans attic, and at one party Faulkner unsuccessfully tried to persuade Field to crawl outside—four floors above the street—with him.”