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.'
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Black Dome Press, Corporation
ISBN-10
188378901x
ISBN-13
9781883789015
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038497977
Product Key Features
Book Title
Diamond Street : the Story of the Little Town with the Big Red Light District
Author
Bruce E. Hall
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa)
Publication Year
1994
Genre
History
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6in
Item Width
9in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq146.H84h34 1994
Copyright Date
1994
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
94-025090
Dewey Decimal
974.7/39
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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