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Comment on overview: a century of brothels in wallace, idaho by Heather Branstetter

Heather Branstetter — Sun, 21 May 2023 01:39:54 +0000

In reply to Dave Petersen. Hi Dave, thanks for your story! There actually did used to be a whorehouse above the Smokehouse. It was called the Old Court Rooms, and there is a picture of it from 1913 on display at the Barnard-Stockbridge Photography Museum in Wallace right now. I'll try to send it to the email you signed in with...

Comment on the madam next door by Heather Branstetter

Heather Branstetter — Sun, 21 May 2023 01:03:39 +0000

In reply to Anya Blankenship. Hi Anya, sorry about the incredibly delayed response. I stopped keeping up my blog regularly there for a while. I think I do have a picture of your grandmother. I'll send you what I have via email...

Comment on the madam next door by Todd Kinsey

Todd Kinsey — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:20:00 +0000

So funny thing, my dad would tell me if I ever ate more ice cream than him he would take me to Wallace to “break me in”. Around 79 I did eat more than him. We went to Wallace. I was very shy and my dad payed and I couldn’t do anything but talk. I never told him that as I didn’t want to let him down. He got black lung from Hercules mine and it eventually got him.

Comment on “just like any other business”? (morality and sex work part two) by Emmett Travis

Emmett Travis — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:47:26 +0000

Very nice bloog you have here

Comment on overview: a century of brothels in wallace, idaho by Dave Petersen

Dave Petersen — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 08:22:25 +0000

I happed to stumble across this and am thrilled! My grandpa owned the Smoke House in Wallace and lived upstairs what used to be a bank, court house, and then my Grandparents home. It was a great place to visit when I was a kid. The truckers would sometimes mistake my grandparents place as a whore house because it was upstairs. I remember my grandma chased them off with a broom! Exciting for a kid to see! My Dad delivered groceries to the ladies when he was in high school and he had some pretty cool stories about that. I heard the story that the whore houses bought band uniforms for the High School and bought the police a new police car. My uncle Buck would visit from Missoula and frequent the â€œbutt hutâ€ as he would call it. He was a very good friend of Delores Arnold. Iâ€™ve got a lot of stories about the place but probably inappropriate to say them here.
Thanks again for your great article!

Comment on the madam next door by Anya Blankenship

Anya Blankenship — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:00:06 +0000

Do you happen to have a picture of my grandmother? I remember you as well from school. We left when the raid happened and moved to California with Tanya. Lol

Comment on the madam next door by Anya Blankenship

Anya Blankenship — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 01:55:12 +0000

My grandmother was Lee from u&I. Sadly she passed away.

Comment on the madam next door by Anya Blankenship

Anya Blankenship — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 01:52:29 +0000

In reply to Heather Branstetter. Hi Heather, yes the secret door. It was right at the top of our stairs no knob just a key hole. Grandma passed away last December. 79 years old.

Comment on a reminder, on the 24th anniversary of the fbi raid by Aaron Bowden

Aaron Bowden — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:10:10 +0000

I was 9 years old, sitting in the Sunshine inn eating pancakes when the FBI raided it. I remember my mother told the waitress to make sure they had a warrant to search the bar area.

Comment on overview: a century of brothels in wallace, idaho by Heather Branstetter

Heather Branstetter — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 18:34:56 +0000

In reply to Wayne Ferrell.

Hi Wayne,

Not that I’ve heard of. Her given name was Maria.

Cheers,
Heather