Tag: Fannie Porter

  • Fannie Porter and the Sporting Girls

    Fannie Porter and the Sporting Girls

    About 120 to 140 years ago, many American cities and towns had “Sporting Districts”. These “Sporting Districts” were synonymous with “Red Light Districts” and “Arts Districts” and other euphemisms to set apart what was desirable in society from those who were deemed undesirable – gambling houses, dance halls, brothels, opium dens, seedy saloons, ethnic groups,…