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Article History. Storyville, historic region of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. It was one of the most famous red-light districts in the United States when prostitution was effectively legal in Storyville from 1897 to 1917. The district was created when Alderman Sidney Story, responding to public protests against rampant prostitution in New ...
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In the late 1890s, the New Orleans city government studied the legalized red light districts of northern German and Dutch ports and set up Storyville based on such models. Between 1895 and 1915, "blue books" were published in Storyville.
Mar 19, 2018 · It designated thirty-eight blocks where prostitution was technically tolerated, but illegal in any other part of the city. The area became known as the "red-light district" and "Storyville" after Sidney Story. It stretched throughout Basin Street, beginning at the former Basin Street Railroad.
May 16, 2017 · Through guidebooks and rare artifacts, the New Orleans Historic Collection considers the complicated legacy of Storyville, the city’s former red light district. NEW ORLEANS — Storyville in New...
- Allison Meier
HISTORY. The Portrait of Sensitivity: A Photographer in Storyville, New Orleans’ Forgotten Burlesque Quarter. The Big Easy’s red light district had plenty of tawdriness going on—except when...
Feb 7, 2013 · 1704. New Orleans has always done things a little differently. As if to prove that point, their “red light district” sprang up in an attempt to better organize and regulate the city’s...
Nov 14, 2013 · Storyville, despite its reputation as the nation’s most notorious red-light district, was created to curtail and contain the spread of prostitution in New Orleans.
