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S.F. Call in Barbary Coast (1933) n.p.: How shocked they would be could they see them as they sit there now, ‘playing particular smash,’ as they are pleased to term it, with the feminine attaches of the Bella Union. flier for the Bella Union Theater (San Francisco) in Barbary Coast (1933) 131: No Back Numbers, but as Sweet and Charming Creatures As Ever Escaped a Female Seminary. flier for the Bella Union Theater (San Francisco) in Barbary Coast (1933) 130: The Show is Not of the Kindergarten Class, But Just Your Size, if You are Inclined to be Frisky and Sporty. (con. late 19C) Barbary Coast 289: Black Tony joined the bunco gang headed by Mike Gallo. (con. 1870s–80s) Barbary Coast (2002) 112: They always worked together, or in cahoots as the slang phrase of the time had it. (ref. to 1907) Barbary Coast (2002) 235: A call house; that is, the members of the — well, staff — were not actually resident upon the premises, but were chosen from photographs, and from charts which furnished all needful information as to [...] physical details. Once selected, the male Magdalen was summoned by telephone or messenger. Barbary Coast (2002) 207: Once a sailor was actually in the clutches of a boarding-house master, he hadn’t even the proverbial Chinaman’s chance of regaining his liberty. (con. late 19C) Barbary Coast 258: Occasionally a respectable woman came through [...] on a slumming tour [...] the prostitutes greeted her with ribald jeers and curses, and cris of ‘Look out girls, here’s some charity competition!’ and ‘Get some sense and quit giving it away!’. (ref. to 1970s–80s) Barbary Coast (2002) 102: Cheap John clothing stores, which catered principally to sailors and fleeced them unmercifully. (con. 1890s) Barbary Coast 132: Some of the most noted cooch artistes of the day appeared at the Midway Plaisance, among them [...] the original Little Egypt, who first danced in San Francisco in 1897, a few years after her triumphs in the Streets of Cairo show at the first Chicago World’s Fair. (con. 1852) Barbary Coast 145: The persecution of the Chinese in California acquired an official tinge in 1852, when Governor Bigler [...] sent a message to the Legislature in which he characterized the Chinese as ‘coolies’. (con. 1870s–1910s) Barbary Coast (2002) 243: In that portion of the red-light district which formed a part of the Barbary Coast, there were three main types of brothel — the cow-yard, the crib, and the parlor house. Barbary Coast 221: Then Devine rowed Kelly’s boat down the Bay and sold it to another crimp. (con. 1870s–80s) Barbary Coast (2002) 103: A solid mass of dance-halls, melodeons, cheap groggeries, wine and beer dens, which were popularly known as deadfalls. Barbary Coast (2002) 127: A typical Tetlow dodger, issued in 1862, described the Bella Union’s theatrical fare. Barbary Coast 209: Both runners and crimps waxed fat and sassy [...] some of the runners earned as much as five hundred to eight hundred dollars a week. (ref. to 1868) Barbary Coast 220: The heavy knife sheared cleanly through the flesh and bone of his wrist [...] Devine struggled to his feet, shrieked curses at Maitland for a moment, and then cried: ‘Hey, Billy, you dirty bastard! Chuck out me fin!’. Barbary Coast (2002) 79: Enlisted under Broderick’s banner were many former Tammany heelers and sluggers. Barbary Coast (2002) 185: The boo how doy, popularly known as hatchetmen or highbinders, received regular salaries, with extra pay for exceptional bravery in battle. (con. 1868) Barbary Coast 150: The most industrious persecutors of the Chinese in San Francisco were the hoodlums [...] The name by which they were designated was of San Franciso coinage. It was first used by newspaper men there during the latter part of 1868, and for at least two years always appeared in print spelled with a capital H and enclosed within quotation marks. (con. 1872) Barbary Coast 151: The Sacramento Weekly Union of February 24 asked editorially if the boys of the city were to be ‘trained as polite loafers, street hounds, hoodlums, or bummers?’. (con. 1870) Barbary Coast 206: Two of them not only refused, but actually pointed a revolver at him, and told him that he was not in a ‘B— Lime Juice’ country, but in God’s own free land. (con. late 19C) Barbary Coast 289: Most of [the girls] ordered whisky — and were served the usual jigger of cold tea or colored water, called in this period a Kelly. (con. 1890) Barbary Coast 160: Not until about 1890 did the San Francisco police learn that [...] the best cure for hoodlumism is the frequent application of locust or hickory to the hoodlum’s skull. (con. late 19C) Barbary Coast 289: Buzzard Maloney, a well-known sneak-thief and lush-worker of the eighteen-nineties. (con. 1880s) Barbary Coast 120: It was the particular rendezvous of the macks, or pimps, and of the lush-workers who thronged the Devil’s Acre. Barbary Coast 247: The mistress of such an establishment was always called Miss by the inmates, but the customers addressed her—and with considerable respect, too,—as Madame. Barbary Coast 224: One of the few policemen who dared enter the Whale alone [...] came out dragging Tip Thornton at the end of a pair of nippers. Barbary Coast (2002) 21: All [saloons] ran wide open, day and night, seven days a week. (con. 1870s–1910s) Barbary Coast (2002) 243: The parlor-house girls were the aristocracy of San Francisco’s red-light district.