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Cripple Creek Brothel & Saloon Letterhead: The Red Light Dance Hall, 1901 [182792]

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Cripple Creek  Brothel & Saloon Letterhead: The Red Light Dance Hall, 1901 [182792]
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Great piece of Western history from a world-famous mining camp!!! The Red Light Dance Hall, G.M. Gregory, Prop. "Only Popular Resort. Under Good Management." Dateline Cripple Creek, Colo. April 20, 1901. Message from George Boyd to DC Weyand, City Clerk: "Please give bearer CC Howell my warrant as judge of election in precinct 18 Tuesday Apr 2, 1901, and oblige." 11 x 8.25" Folds, toning. Proprietor G(eorge) M. Gregory was better known to the Cripple Creek locals as "Crapper Jack." At one time, he owned Red Light Dance Halls in Cripple Creek, Victor, and Florence, as well as a saloon, Crapper Jack's. (There was also a Red Light Dance Hall in Leadville that burned down in 1884. It is not clear if Gregory was ever associated with that establishment.) The Red Light Dance Hall was located in Cripple Creek's red light district, which was on Myers Avenue. In 1900, 500 citizens of Victor petitioned the city council to close the Victor Red Light Dance Hall. In 1903, Gregory was under fire for bringing underage girls from Denver to the Red Light Dance Hall in Cripple Creek. The Denver police charged him with "enticing for immoral purposes girls underage." When he stepped off the train at Cripple Creek, officers found him with 20 women, ranging in age from 15 to 20 years. The girls said "Gregory had induced them to go to work in his immoral resorts." [Ref: The Florence Daily Tribune, Volume 10, Number 113, January 13, 1903] [ Cripple Creek Colorado