Galveston's Red Light District

preview-18
  • Galveston's Red Light District Book Detail

  • Author : Kimber Fountain
  • Release Date : 2018-08-20
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 131
  • ISBN 13 : 1439664927
  • File Size : 96,96 MB

Galveston's Red Light District by Kimber Fountain PDF Summary

Book Description: A local historian recounts nearly seventy years of seduction and scandal along the Texas Gulf Coast in this lively chronicle of Galveston’s notorious past. Known today as a colorful resort destination featuring family entertainment and a thriving arts district, Galveston, Texas, 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 love for sale. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, The Line was a stubborn mainstay of the island cityscape until it was finally shut down in the 1950s. But ridding Galveston of prostitution would prove much more difficult than putting a padlock on the front door. In Galveston’s Red Light District, Texas historian Kimber Fountain pursues the sequestered story of women who wanted to make their own rules and the city that wanted to let them.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Galveston's Red Light District books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Galveston's Red Light District

Galveston's Red Light District

File Size : 91,91 MB
Total View : 5478 Views
DOWNLOAD

A local historian recounts nearly seventy years of seduction and scandal along the Texas Gulf Coast in this lively chronicle of Galveston’s notorious past. Kn

The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston

The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston

File Size : 45,45 MB
Total View : 4222 Views
DOWNLOAD

Alleys and back buildings have been largely overlooked in studies of the American urban environment. And yet, rental alley houses, servant and slave quarters, c

The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion

The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion

File Size : 72,72 MB
Total View : 4593 Views
DOWNLOAD

In 1900, just a few months after the deadly hurricane of September, W. L. Moody Jr. and his family moved into the four-story mansion at the corner of Broadway a

Hell's Half Acre

Hell's Half Acre

File Size : 27,27 MB
Total View : 6821 Views
DOWNLOAD

Includes material on Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, and Butch Cassiday.