Tag: jade rooms
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overview: a century of brothels in wallace, idaho
A New York Times article appearing during the 1973 [temporary] shutdown confuses some things, but offers an example of the high degree of acceptance the community had toward the madams and houses, and illustrates how wide Wallace’s reputation had spread, noting that a bartender at Albiâs had fielded 14 long-distance phone calls that day to…
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the madam next door
This past Monday I drove to Charlottesville to be interviewed for the nationally-distributed public radio show With Good Reason. It was interesting—and a little weird—to do what the producer Kelley called “performing a conversation.” You can listen to the show here (I’m the first 16 minutes or so): [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/194578165″ params=”color=79a4d1&show_artwork=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /] And here is a transcript featuring my…
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locations of wallace brothels 1891-1991: podcast episode, maps, and transcript
“I don’t remember at all how I eventually found out that this was a thriving red-light district and had steady business, but when it was payday at the mines the place was really jumping.”
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provisional diagnosis: prostitution
“This young woman has had quite a career. […] This patient absolutely vows that she does want to change her life. She says she has never been satisfied with it. She doesn’t feel its right to take the money from some of these poor men who have been her customers. She is ashamed of her…