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  2. List of red-light districts - Wikipedia

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    Chinatown, Vancouver (historic): Dupont Street, between Westminster Ave (Main Street) and Carrall, was Vancouver's first official red light district which began when Bridie Stewart set up a shop at 101 Dupont. The district was relocated in 1906 to Shanghai and Canton Alley, which collaboratively hosted 105 brothels.

  3. Street prostitution - Wikipedia

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    This woman used in prostitution in Italy is forced through threats and intimidation to give all earnings to her trafficker. Street prostitution is a form of prostitution in which a prostitute solicits customers from a public place, most commonly a street, while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street, but also other public places such as parks, benches, etc.

  4. Down These Mean Streets - Wikipedia

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    Down These Mean Streets is a “book claimed by [many] literary traditions, such as U.S. Latin[@] literature or Hispanic literature of the U.S. and Puerto Rican literature written in English.” [16] Anne Garland Mahler of the University of Virginia, on the other hand, classifies Down These Mean Streets as “an autobiography and bildungsroman ...

  5. Once a ghost town, Walker Lake now heart of St. Louis ... - AOL

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    A resident and business owner in St. Louis Park the past 35 years, Curt Rahman has never seen the city's Historic Walker Lake district as vibrant as it is today. "It used to be a ghost town at ...

  6. A boy in north Georgia went for a walk down the road. It ...

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    In rural Georgia, a 10-year-old boy left home and walked a mile down the road to another town, where a concerned citizen called law enforcement. Deputies then arrested the boy’s mother, igniting ...

  7. A Walker in the City - Wikipedia

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    It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1952. [1] The New York Times book reviewer, Orville Prescott, praised the book: "As a work of descriptive, emotional, lyrical writing, "A Walker in the City" is good. Mr. Kazin has recorded the sordid and unpleasant as well as the colorful and touching.

  8. Street Corner Society - Wikipedia

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    Compaesani – people originally from the same Italian town – are one example. The first part of the book contains detailed accounts of how local gangs were formed and organized. Whyte differentiated between "corner boys" and "college boys": [2] The lives of the "corner boys" revolved around particular street corners and the nearby shops ...

  9. The Stroll (2023 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Stroll is a 2023 American documentary film, directed by Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker.The film documents trans history in New York City, from the perspective of Black and Latina trans women who had been sex workers in the Meatpacking District during the 1980s and 1990s, in an area known as The Stroll.