Diamond Street: The Story of the Little Town With the Big Red Light District - Brossura

Hall, Bruce Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 188378901X ISBN 13: 9781883789015

Casa editrice: Black Dome Pr, 2005

Riassunto

History of vice and crime in the city of Hudson, NY, from its founding in 1783 to a major crackdown by the NYS State Police in 1950.

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L'autore:

Author of "Tea That Burns," and "Henry and the Kite Dragon."

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This is the astonishing illicit history of Hudson, New York, which for many years was the unlikely setting for a world of prostitution, gambling, murder, and government corruption—with more than a touch of the Keystone Kops thrown in.In the century or so before 1950, Hudson was famous as a shopping center of vice. There were at least two major illegal horse rooms, a big-stakes floating crap game, and as many as fifteen houses of ill repute. Meanwhile, the church suppers took place and the parades marched up and down as Hudson's respectable citizenry convinced themselves that there was nothing out of the ordinary in this town described as, “ten streets wide and ten streets deep... a Norman Rockwell painting in motion.”

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• Editore: Black Dome Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 188378901X
• ISBN 13: 9781883789015
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240