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The U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, a naval installation since Spanish colonial times, had also grown into a major facility by the 1970s; the main street of Olongapo City had no less than 30 girlie bars and the city acquired the pseudonym "Sin City".
The economies of Olongapo and the nearby areas of Zambales evolved from a largely agricultural orientation at the end of the 1960s [32] [33] towards one built around sex industry related businesses such as bars by the mid-1970s.
Media attention tends to focus on those areas catering to sex tourism, primarily through bars staffed by bargirls. Cities where there is a high incidence of prostitution are Angeles City, Olongapo, Subic Bay, and Pasay, [12] with the customers usually foreign businessmen from East Asian and Western nations. [12]
1970s Fern Bars Were the Original Singles Bars, Are They Making a Comeback? Shannon Mustipher. January 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM. Food & Wine / Getty Images.
In bars catering mostly to foreign men, girls are sold for a "bar fine". [13] Conditions are sometimes brutal [ 20 ] Children and teenagers are lured into the industry from poor areas by promises of money and care, and are kept there by threats, debt bondage and the fear of poverty.
October 13 – Super Typhoon Sening landfalls on Lagonoy Gulf with sustained winds of 280 km/h. Sening left over 80,000 people homeless, in addition to killing 575 people (193 people were unaccounted for, and have since been declared dead, bringing the total toll to 768) and injuring nearly 1600. [4]
The Downtown Eastside is the sex trades final destination of city displacement over several years. In 2003, a large number of sex workers went missing and/or were murdered. Many of these were tied to serial killer Robert Pickton, and were the largest contributor to the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) cases over the years ...
Lego fans call the toy timeless -- but words on a pamphlet in a Lego set from the 1970s are decidedly modern. The note reads: "The urge to create is equally strong in all children. Boys and girls ...