Tuesday, September 11, 2018

At the beginning of Chapter 23 of DEVIL MAKE A THIRD, banker Amos Longshore, Buck's former father-in-law, comes into Buck's office in Aven City Hall and tells him that his bank will no longer cover the City of Aven's overdrafts. Since the City is not only broke but in the hole, Buck puts on his thinking cap and decides to tax all the prostitution houses, gambling dens and shot houses in town. He tells his friend and Chief of Police Tobe Parody, "Here we are givin' them police protection, streets, schools, an' a brand-new fire truck, an' they ain't payin' a dime. Legal places are totin' the whole load." In Dothan, I believe in the early days prostitution houses were located all around Dothan but when Mayor Buck Baker decided to zone Pleasant View (the area on Range Street between East Adams and East Burdeshaw) for prostitution, all of those establishments were mandated to move to this restricted district.

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