Hurdy-gurdy girls are not prostitutes. They are Taxi Dancers in the basements of Hurdy Gurdy music joints. They were paid .25c per dance, besides a treat. If a man became enamored, as often happened after a few drinks, he gave her a bonus of five dollars, or ten or twenty. A saving girl could build […]
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Old 62 Bar
Address 62 So. C Street, this building had two commercial spaces. Moses Wertheimer a German Jewish immigrant owner of a San Francisco cigar factory was in the south half of the building in 1868. It operated until the mid 1890โs. North half was a saloon from 1864 to early 1900โs. In 1930โs C. Pucinelli merged […]
Julia Bulette
Julia Bulette Prostitute Julia Bulette moved to Virginia City around 1863 when the lively mining boom town boasted a population approaching 10,000. Four years later, an intruder strangled her during the early morning hours of January 20, 1867. Local officials arrested Frenchman Jean Millian when he tried to sell a few of her possessions. Found […]