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  1. Storyville, New Orleans. Coordinates: 29°57′32.69″N 90°04′25.73″W. One of the few surviving buildings from Storyville, 2005 photograph. 100 years earlier, the "New Image Supermarket" building housed Frank Early's saloon, where Tony Jackson regularly played. Storyville was the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 to ...

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

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  4. Mar 19, 2018 · Mar 19, 2018. 5 min read. From Basin to Backatown: The Untold Story of Storyville. Storyville, New Orleans. Basin Street parallels Rampart Street and neighbors the historic French Quarter and St. Louis Cemetery #1.

  5. Feb 7, 2013 · Storyville was a unique area where sex work was outlawed but music flourished, especially jazz. Learn about its origins, blue books, closure, and legacy in this Atlas Obscura article.

  6. May 16, 2017 · Explore the history and legacy of Storyville, the former red light district of New Orleans, through photographs, maps, and artifacts. Learn how Storyville shaped the city's identity as a center of jazz, debauchery, and racial segregation.

  7. A legalized prostitution district associated with the early development of New Orleans-style jazz existed from 1897-1917. Romanticized by early historians as the birth-place of jazz, this red-light district included brothels, bars and dance halls where jazz artists performed and socialized.

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