Excavating Storyville

Subject: RE: Excavating Storyville
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 06 Dec 18 - 02:59 PM

A recent ABC News article (September 17, 2018, "World News Tonight")

https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=118756&page=1

It references a Brit and Louisianan couple who manage a "hostel" and collect songs.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

In this thread Abby Sale, 02 Apr 00 - 10:50 AM , refers to a flop house he and his wife ran in 1966, on Rampart St.
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=8592#205596

It sent me on a journey into the old UseNet groups and IRC ...

Subject: RE: Excavating Storyville
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 06 Dec 18 - 10:02 AM

Here's another article on the topic

https://www.academia.edu/1440309/Beneath_the_Rising_Sun_Frenchness_and_the_archaeology_of_desire

Subject: RE: Excavating Storyville
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 06 Dec 18 - 09:38 AM

http://home.uchicago.edu/~sdawdy/risingsun/RisingSun%20complete.pdf


The missing link....

Subject: RE: Excavating Storyville
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 06 Dec 18 - 09:37 AM

I saw this, and found aspects of it very annoying as it had no references and there is a lot of nonsense talked about the House of Rising Sun song which the article did not address. But I agree it is interesting and might have started a thread on it had Mudcat not seemed to be offline all day yesterday! So thanks, Jack.

There are a number of threads here which illustrate the different ideas.

And some of the 'facts' reported aren't as clear-cut as they appear. For example, the idea that rouge-pots equals prostitutes has been challenged. It seems that some men (dandies) made use of rouge, for example.

Here is a more academic report, which does discuss the rouge 'controversy' in a little more detail.

Subject: RE: Excavating Storyville
From: michaelr
Date: 06 Dec 18 - 01:13 AM

Fascinating stuff!

Subject: Excavating Storyville
From: Jack Campin
Date: 05 Dec 18 - 05:13 PM

The archæology of sleaze:

Independent report