Galveston's Red Light District: A History of the Line, Hardcover/Kimber Fountain

Galveston's Red Light District: A History of the Line, Hardcover/Kimber Fountain

An publicare
2018
Nr. Pagini
130
ISBN
9781540235688

Descriere

Description Known today as a colorful resort destination featuring family entertainment and a thriving arts district, Galveston was once notorious for its flourishing vice economy and infamous red-light district. Called simply "The Line," the unassuming five blocks of Postoffice Street came alive every night with wild parties and generous offerings of hourly love. A stubborn mainstay of the island cityscape for nearly seventy years, it finally shut down in the late 1950s. But ridding Galveston of prostitution would prove much more difficult than putting a padlock on the front door. Kimber Fountain pursues the sequestered story of women who wanted to make their own rules and the city that wanted to let them.

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