She was goodlooking, well dressed, and said she was well satisfied with her way of life. However, when Bellon posted notices on some of the buildings near the foot of Market, including the “Cozy Cottage,” the campaign to rid the city of the waterfront shanties hit a snag—politics. Detectives, when seeking a suspect, were often puzzled by the fact that their quarry seemed to disappear as if by magic once he entered the Fourth Street entrance to the enclave. the Madam at the Turf was Kate Clark.On the west side of Fifth. Three boatloads of anxious sailors landed to form a bucket brigade to tight the flames. Dr. Francis H. Mead was then Health Officer. He told Bellon other departments of the city had tried to clean up the Stingaree but had always given up, and the City Attorney had made attempts to crack down on vice in the area, but his investigations were hampered by local thugs, and by politics. They received thanks. In 1887 the In the daytime, Ida Bailey’s was a favorite haunt for the neighborhood children.
His life was brought to a tragic end suddenly in 1914 when he was struck and killed by a motorcycle at Third and J. The fair also brought mixed blessings to San Diego. It was supposed to add spice and pleasure to the meal. Monday night the Stingaree was dark with only a dim light burning here and there indicating the presence of some solitary woman packing the last of her effects. Bellon met Ah Quin on one of his first inspection trips to Chinatown. He was accompanied by his attorney. Then the women laughed. Many of the neighborhood's residents—and modern red-light uses—were removed with There was a restaurant and nightclub called Stingaree at the corner of 6th and Island. The real clincher, however, was that an abatement order could be made closing a building for one year. Most were new residents, having come to San Diego within the last few months.Among those arrested were four Japanese women, who were held for deportation, and one Chinese who declared her intent to leave. Chief Wilson offered her a job in a local hospital, but she said she would try to find work in Los Angeles.None of the women attributed their downfall to the cruel ravages of the world.
As the sex industry grew throughout the Bay Area, the government had to stop the anti-prostitution and anti-immigration law in the beginning of the 20th century. Today, if members of the Purity League could return, they would be shocked to see the large number of “X” rated movies, pornographic bookstores and peep shows, the Go-Go bars advertising “complete nudity,” and the proliferation of “massage” parlors, all beyond the “deadline” of the old Stingaree.In recent months the old Redlight Abatement Act has been dusted off and used in a crackdown on pornography, a use not envisioned by the lawmakers in 1913.When the old redlight district was closed in 1912, a 7. The Health Board’s campaign in Chinatown and the old Stingaree is going through with a rush. a saloon with a “roominghouse” above. Finally enough pressure was brought to bear on the state legislature that in 1913 the Redlight Abatement Act was passed. During her last years she lived in destitution. Behind Cassidy’s, and running through to Fourth behind the Turf, was another compound of cribs, or stables. .
We came here, because a friend VERY strongly recommended it.
Strong-arm men, who would slug a tenderfoot for a too-bit piece, made it their rendezvous. Just south of the Seven Buckets of Blood was the Green Light, a parlor house whose girls were a shade higher class than those who occupied the two rows of cribs which extended from Third to Fourth, along a courtway, and which were known as the Stables or Bullpen. Dr. Banks was worried, and so was Chief Wilson. It is my opinion that the majority of citizens of San Diego are satisfied with the existing conditions.
Their habits were never questioned by the Health Department. San Francisco's Chinatown, founded in 1848, is the first and largest in the United States. By that time, Mrs. F. W. Alexander, a member of the Committee, appeared, and when all the women were assembled, she explained that it was not the Committee’s intention to coerce them in any way. Before that San Diego had been just a sleepy little village without the money or population to attract peddlers of vice.Strolling down Fifth in the evening, the ear is rasped by notes from asthmatic pianos, discordant fiddles and drunken voices boisterously singing ribald songs. .
This violation of law was winked at by authorities. The police were aware that there were caches of illicit drugs and liquors hidden in the Stingaree. . Finally, in 1884, the old Stingaree Block was moved to a lot “near the court house.”Not much has been written historically about the goings on in the Stingaree, and its eventual demise.
a small rubber hose having been substituted. Often a good luck charm, such as a horseshoe tied with a faded ribbon, hung over the door. WHEN THE RED LIGHTS WENT OUT IN SAN DIEGO, The Little Known Story of San Diego's 'Restricted' District, Clare V. McKanna, Jr. Prostitutes, Progressives, and Police: The Viability of Vice in San Diego 1900-1930. So it was no surprise when I entered several compounds surrounded by cribs in Chinatown, that no one was around. Now the law had some teeth in it. The sale of tickets was large. Those who were ill were removed to the County Hospital, including Crawfish Charley who had lived on the waterfront for almost thirty years. the military authorities took the place of the Purity League in demanding that the city rid itself of known houses of prostitution and keep “a clean environment” around the camps. The cribs facing J between Third and Fourth began to tumble, the owners doing this themselves. with an unventilated light shaft, or they just built walls leaving out the windows. Detectives knew that a string of houses were operating along El Cajon Boulevard, then an unpaved stretch leading to La Mesa. When the final day came. and chaperoned. She professed not to know their use, or condition, and wanted to know how he knew she was the owner of the property.
San Diego's Chinese Mission, Elizabeth C. MacPhail (Spring, 1974).
One man, trying to be sociable, said he’d be glad to stop but there were ten reasons why he could not, and one was that he had no money.