1937 Press Photo A.M. Lockett works in his homemade metal workshop, New Orleans

A.M. Lockett works in his homemade metal workshop, New Orleans. For 15 years A.M. Lockett, prominent New Orleans businessman and former president of the Association of Commerce, has found recreation in a self-built metal workshop in the backyard of his Pass Christian home. The shop is complete with electric drills, presses, a forge, a lathe and other gadgets dear to the heart of an amateur workman. "Every man needs a shop like this if he wants to stay young," he said.

Photo is dated 1937.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.