With its depiction of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of perdido street in the old French quarter of 1930s new orleans, found a place in the imagination of all the generations that have followed si...With its depiction of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of perdido street in the old French quarter of 1930s new orleans, found a place in the imagination of all the generations that have followed since.