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Musicians stood to make more money in Storyville than in other musical hot spots around the city. The District’s clubs, such as Funky Butt Hall, the Entertainers (also known as the 101 and 102 Ranch), the Big 25, Pete Lala’s, and the Frenchman’s, gave musicians ample opportunity to work, challenge each other, and experiment with new sounds.
Storyville, New Orleans' legendary red-light district, was created by Alderman Sidney Story, and came to bear his name. The "District," as it was also known, was legislated to confine prostitution to one area of the city where it could be regulated. Storyville was bounded by Iberville, St. Louis, Basin, and North Robertson Streets, an area now ...
Sep 26, 2023 · As New Orleans developed, Storyville’s “back o’ town” location became more central. In 1908, the train terminal at Canal and Basin Streets, one block from Storyville, was completed. To reach the station, trains traveled past the Basin Street bordellos, where the (often naked) prostitutes waved to the passengers from balconies.
May 16, 2017 · Allison Meier May 16, 2017. A woman in striped stockings in New Orleans’s Storyville red light district (1912), attributed to E. J. Bellocq (via Wikimedia) NEW ORLEANS — Storyville in New ...
Storyville was the infamous red-light district behind the French Quarter, along Basin Street, between Canal Street and St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. It operated from 1897 until 1917,when, with World War I raging, the U.S. Navy forced the city to shut it down. Its name mockingly referred to city alderman Sidney Story, who sought to create the ...
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Apr 14, 2015 · Storyville, also known as the "District," was the legendary tenderloin district in New Orleans, which operated legally between 1897 and 1917. Prostitution was the primary business in Storyville, but music and entertainment were prominent sidelines. While jazz was not born in Storyville, as legend has it, the district helped expose the new music ...
