I used to live in a whore house!

[Caleb Bogart]

I live in northeastern Indiana. For the first 3 years of my life I lived in an unincorporated community that used to be an oil field. The house was built in 1907, and in the 1920s it was the town "bordello". It had walk in closets, so that if there was a raid, they could hide in the closet. AND it is supposedly haunted by a ghost named Lockwood. When I was three we moved away, so I don't remember much about it, I just go by what the folks have told me. Here is a picture of the out side

http://www.flickr.com/photos/120210877@N03/13136841764/in/photostream/

 

[Tomasso]

Kind of a grim looking joint. But I guess you had to go to the big city to find a cathouse as opulent as the Everleigh Club

 

[Shangas]

Probably better to live in one than be born in one.

 

[Stormy]

Probably better to live in one than be born in one.

I recall someone telling me that it's not where a person is born that matters. It's where he or she dies.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Are you bragging or complaining?

 

[Tomasso]

it's not where a person is born that matters. It's where he or she dies.

I'd much rather die in a sporting house than a hospital.

 

[Caleb Bogart]

Are you bragging or complaining?

Neither...I just think it is kind of interesting and thought I would share it.

 

[Caleb Bogart]

I'd much rather die in a sporting house than a hospital.

live life to the fullest! Die in style! Not in a hospital!

 

[Kirk H.]

live life to the fullest! Die in style! Not in a hospital!

Excellnt advice.

 

[Captain Lyerly]

The fanciest Bed and Breakfast here in town was a funeral home when I was growing up. I wonder if they would be amused if you went to check in and mentioned the smell of formaldehyde.


Cap'n L

 

[Matt Crunk]

Back in the early '90s I had an office in an old 1920s four-square that was rumored to be a whore house through most of the 70s. From the decor and wallpaper present before we remodeled, I'd say it probably was.

 

[tonyb]

The place I moved into about 35 years ago, and where I lived for nearly 20 years after that, had been a cathouse/crackhouse prior to my occupancy there. It had very explicit cartoons painted on the walls (fairly skillful artwork, but decidedly poor taste) and mismatched mirrors on one bedroom ceiling (I had visions of those glued-on mirrors coming loose; needless to add that I never once slept in that room prior to taking down those mirrors). Among the many "improvements" made to the place was some wiring an electrician advised me was "hotter'n a three-dollar whore." Oh, and it had a rodent infestation. "Sleazy" is not a powerful enough word to describe it. It was truly unfit for human habitation, and I'm confident the city's building department would have so deemed it had they seen it before we set to putting things right.

 

[Bugguy]

Closest I've come was living in a boarding house in Seoul, ROK that was the last stop for young (but of age) Korean women that we're moving to Japan to work in tea houses, wine houses, etc. My claim to fame was access to duty-free liquor at the UN exchange. The house mom was wicked, so thoughts of romance were out of the question. Besides, I personally think they were all KCIA.

 

[1961MJS]

The place I moved into about 35 years ago, and where I lived for nearly 20 years after that, had been a cathouse/crackhouse prior to my occupancy there. It had very explicit cartoons painted on the walls (fairly skillful artwork, but decidedly poor taste) and mismatched mirrors on one bedroom ceiling (I had visions of those glued-on mirrors coming loose; needless to add that I never once slept in that room prior to taking down those mirrors). Among the many "improvements" made to the place was some wiring an electrician advised me was "hotter'n a three-dollar whore." Oh, and it had a rodent infestation. "Sleazy" is not a powerful enough word to describe it. It was truly unfit for human habitation, and I'm confident the city's building department would have so deemed it had they seen it before we set to putting things right.

Hi Tony

I've always imagined that waking up looking at mirrors when you wake up, would be at best Frightening, especially on those days when the beer goggles said 9 last night.....

Later

 

[tonyb]

I resemble that comment, Mike.

At risk of steering this thread too far afield (it's still kinda on-topic, I'd argue) ... I hear reports of young (mostly) people making video recordings of their physical encounters, and that in some cases those recordings come back to bite the featured player(s) on that which was clearly on display. Even in my most gin-induced states of consciousness (bordering on unconsciousness) I would never have allowed myself to be party to such a thing.

Good Lord, aren't people's self-preservation instincts more powerful than all those other human impulses?

 

[Haversack]

Back when I was in Architecture school in the Pacific Northwest, a couple of the courses had us studying settlement patterns. These involved some field work in some the small towns of the region. Some common features of these towns were the train station, the one big hotel (usually the only building over 3 stories tall), and the main commercial street lined with 2-3 story buildings. Most of these structures were built between the 1870s and 1930s. Nowadays a lot of the main street commercial buildings are only occupied on the ground floor and the upstairs are vacant. In going through several of these buildings it was very apparent that the upstairs had been set up and used as brothels. (separate exterior entrance from the alley behind the building, doored entry vestibule leading to a large common room, hallway lined with small windowless rooms, a reinforced room not on the hallway, etc.). In one town of maybe 6,000 we found four of these former establishments. Of course, most of these towns had developed as mill towns and had a large regional population of young single men.

A slightly finer example of this type of establishment can still be seen in Butte, Montana. The Dumas Brothel was purposely designed and built as a brothel in 1890. It was still in active operation when the building was put on the National Register of Historic Places in the 1970s.

Haversack.

 

[cookie]

James Brown was supposed to have been born in a brothel...just sayin'.

 

[Maltese]

James Brown was supposed to have been born in a brothel...just sayin'.

lol

 

[stevew443]

I once rented a house that I thought was once used for immoral purposes. It had quite a few very small rooms for such a small house and every room had a door to the outside. The tiny living room even had 2 outside exits. The entire house seemed to be designed for easy escape. One other interesting thing about this house... it was built in 1898. At the time I was living there, I was reading a book written in 1898. I use pipe cleaners as book marks, but when I picked up this book, the pipe cleaner was gone and in its place was a one dollar silver certificate printed in 1898. I used that dollar bill as a book mark for as long as I lived in that house. When we moved, the dollar bill was gone and my pipe cleaner book mark was again in the place I had left off reading.

 

[fgradowski]

My parents had heard that their home was possibly a whore house at some point in its long life. It was built pre-1900.