Prostitutes and Madams: Vintage photos from the 1880s-1930s

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  • Опубликовано: 27 дек 2024

Комментарии • 102

  • @deborahpacheco2799
    @deborahpacheco2799 6 дней назад +35

    Why weren't the male customers arrested?

    • @llc1976
      @llc1976 4 дня назад +6

      Or ever
      Identified?!

    • @tobberfutooagain2628
      @tobberfutooagain2628 4 дня назад +5

      Please…. Oldest business ever known….

    • @K2teknik.
      @K2teknik. 3 дня назад +1

      The male persons may not had been breaking any laws?

    • @Daryl-v4v
      @Daryl-v4v 3 дня назад +1

      They got off😂

    • @andrewyoung2796
      @andrewyoung2796 3 дня назад

      Now they take your car

  • @brucewalker5890
    @brucewalker5890 8 дней назад +31

    Titles not always matching the photos.

  • @kathrynkildow3743
    @kathrynkildow3743 9 дней назад +29

    This is so sad I quit watching it. That's no way to live. Did their customers ever get arrested?

    • @acebrandon3522
      @acebrandon3522 6 дней назад

      No, their customers did not get arrested, silly. The men got the 'Dreaded 7 Year Itch with Anal Leakage Herpes".

  • @marycleary-qe5ou
    @marycleary-qe5ou 11 дней назад +37

    Most of these women look so sad.

    • @felicitypasquill9194
      @felicitypasquill9194 9 дней назад +7

      What did you expect?

    • @BettyCraig-x8l
      @BettyCraig-x8l 9 дней назад

      Probably had diseases we've never heard of.

    • @leedsman54
      @leedsman54 7 дней назад +5

      You’d be sad if you thought you were probably getting jailed.

    • @TheOlskool4ever
      @TheOlskool4ever 6 дней назад +9

      Look sad? Majority of them look OLD for their age. 😢

    • @felicitypasquill9194
      @felicitypasquill9194 6 дней назад

      @@marycleary-qe5ou are you really surprised prostitutes age so prematurely?

  • @lorrainenovelle-ph1ke
    @lorrainenovelle-ph1ke 6 дней назад +30

    They always arrest the prostitute, but never the men. These woman, are doing this to survive, definitely not for their pleasure.

    • @byronbuchanan3066
      @byronbuchanan3066 6 дней назад +5

      It doesn't excuse their behavior. They could get a job like everyone else.

    • @lorrainenovelle-ph1ke
      @lorrainenovelle-ph1ke 6 дней назад

      @byronbuchanan3066 not in that era. Even in today's economy, many women and men prostitute themselves for money so they can survive.

    • @junioralfa3628
      @junioralfa3628 5 дней назад

      @@byronbuchanan3066 Exactly!

    • @janethefriend-awakened33
      @janethefriend-awakened33 4 дня назад

      @@byronbuchanan3066 history lesson for you: in the 1880s and turn of the century no, they could not get a job like everyone else and "everyone else" is who, men? women did not even enter the so called workforce until after world war 1 and that was a very small percentage.

    • @K2teknik.
      @K2teknik. 3 дня назад

      Some jurisdictions do not considerate the buyer as a criminal, only the seller, it is law stuff.

  • @janethefriend-awakened33
    @janethefriend-awakened33 4 дня назад +6

    these women probably felt they had no other way to survive or get by. all of their eyes show sadness.

  • @LisaGrace-Crisologo
    @LisaGrace-Crisologo 5 дней назад +16

    They all have PTSD in their eyes. Can you imagine the sequence of events that lead a woman to being an "inmate" in a brothel?

    • @DonnellOkafor-r2d
      @DonnellOkafor-r2d 4 дня назад +1

      Yeah bad choices on life mostly

    • @Ponette-1776
      @Ponette-1776 4 дня назад +4

      @@DonnellOkafor-r2dNot many options for an unmarried young woman or one who left an abusive marriage, unless they were born into money

    • @REALSTREETNIGGAMUZIK
      @REALSTREETNIGGAMUZIK День назад

      No they don’t. Most look like hardened criminals.

  • @debbierichards8182
    @debbierichards8182 8 дней назад +15

    These women are broke 💔 also, I think your info was scrambled & saw one lady a few times?

  • @cheriamour2429
    @cheriamour2429 8 дней назад +20

    They all look older.

    • @GwendolynPorter-w6c
      @GwendolynPorter-w6c 6 дней назад +4

      No they don't! The first black woman looked mad! She looked younger than the others. 😂😂😂

    • @same5952
      @same5952 5 дней назад

      Rough life will do that.

    • @dennisblunt6580
      @dennisblunt6580 День назад +2

      Everyone looked older back then. IJS

  • @Quidditch54321
    @Quidditch54321 7 дней назад +11

    This is sad. Their lives were awful.

  • @same5952
    @same5952 5 дней назад +8

    These women all look so sad. At the turn of the last century, these women had limited rights or ways to make a living and no voting rights until about 1918+. They did what they had to do to survive. Very sad for these women.

    • @rogerpropes7129
      @rogerpropes7129 2 дня назад

      Sad for the men who had to resort to these uggos--a real crime against nature.

    • @memcrew1
      @memcrew1 10 часов назад

      What are the reasons for modern women in 2024 for doing the same?

  • @ryckless1
    @ryckless1 6 часов назад +1

    This is awful, we don't know these ladies' story or why they lived the way they did. If any of their family members are still around and see this I hope they sue the pants off you. Unless you're gonna publicize their johns and plaster their pics and info over the world let these ladies RIP, shame on you.

  • @Chunky318
    @Chunky318 6 дней назад +3

    Have completely enjoyed all of your videos that I have so far watched. Very interesting. Very. Sparked my research neurons. Thank you.

  • @rg-pq1kb
    @rg-pq1kb 6 дней назад +10

    It’s interesting to google the addresses listed… if walls could talk

  • @regthebackyardjackofalltrades
    @regthebackyardjackofalltrades День назад +1

    Looks like lost were arrested from one building. I wonder if someone wanted the property? Follow that trail of ownership…

  • @jamesmurray8558
    @jamesmurray8558 7 дней назад +6

    Minnie Bradley, Estella Burs, Ethel Wilson, Eva Mack were beautiful women.

  • @arlanstrong1424
    @arlanstrong1424 10 дней назад +14

    How do you blacklist a prostitute?

    • @acebrandon3522
      @acebrandon3522 6 дней назад

      An answer to your most profound question: Only if one gets the "Dreaded 7 Year Itch or One's 🥜s explode".

  • @tibzig1
    @tibzig1 9 дней назад +10

    I guess they are all dead and gone now. Quite strange and haunting to look at these old photos.

    • @Chunky318
      @Chunky318 6 дней назад +4

      Would love to know what happened in their life journey afterwards....

  • @maixentlandou3362
    @maixentlandou3362 2 дня назад +1

    Des vies certainement difficiles...la musique d'accompagnement rajoute une touche d'angoisse. Merci pour le partage!

  • @MargaretFranklin-jy9wi
    @MargaretFranklin-jy9wi 6 дней назад +4

    Such a sad way to live …..to live the life of a prostitute and or a madam…..I hope that they eventually did get out of such and lead normal lives . Interesting story behind this video..thank you for sharing it ❤❤

  • @tibzig1
    @tibzig1 9 дней назад +7

    "...ordered to leave the city at once..." Hilarious!

  • @Wilson632
    @Wilson632 5 дней назад +4

    Nothing new under the Sun this old profession is even in the Bible 🚬

  • @TheOlskool4ever
    @TheOlskool4ever 6 дней назад +2

    I love the photo of Minnie Bradley. That sister had "attitude" even back in the 1900's 😂😂

    • @GwendolynPorter-w6c
      @GwendolynPorter-w6c 6 дней назад

      Mad cause she got caught! She looks about twenty! Even back then, in some cases black don't crack!😂😂😂😂

  • @Nettsinthewoods
    @Nettsinthewoods 4 дня назад +1

    Not all were either really prostitutes, but the fines meant they had to go out and work harder to pay the fine, plus their lodgings . So sad.

  • @josephantee5188
    @josephantee5188 День назад +1

    God bless them all!

  • @lovealllife748
    @lovealllife748 4 дня назад +1

    Most likely the had just serviced the very people that arrested them and demanded money for release

  • @glenlapwing8468
    @glenlapwing8468 День назад

    Hard to believe most of them lived over 100 years ago, very sad

  • @patrickmcgrath8730
    @patrickmcgrath8730 2 дня назад +1

    Madame Walker?

  • @jayplaz04brown34
    @jayplaz04brown34 7 дней назад +5

    You can see on most or there face it was a heart life.

  • @lesleylight4690
    @lesleylight4690 5 дней назад +1

    No centrelink back then.

  • @lestersabados1306
    @lestersabados1306 3 дня назад +1

    Nebraska and Canada seem to be dirty

  • @corrineagnello4584
    @corrineagnello4584 5 дней назад +4

    Some really not great looking women . . .

    • @same5952
      @same5952 5 дней назад +6

      Most "common streetwalkers" as they were described didn't look great back then and they don't look great now. Rough life.

    • @DancingChicken-w8v
      @DancingChicken-w8v День назад

      Rough life and for the most part, they lost the will to care about keeping up their appearance.

  • @andys30us
    @andys30us 4 дня назад

    DuPont Street, Vancouver.

  • @kermitdfrogz
    @kermitdfrogz День назад

    Creepy as all get out to me; maybe it’s the music.

  • @davidnichol6282
    @davidnichol6282 11 часов назад

    There is no welfare state on these dates tough times back then.

  • @Maaaaaaaa88aaaaaaaaM
    @Maaaaaaaa88aaaaaaaaM 21 час назад

    Tough old bags 😨

  • @jameswinston5512
    @jameswinston5512 16 часов назад

    From the many photos that I’ve seen over the years from around that time period, it seems like most of the prostitutes weren’t very attractive

  • @710MaryJane
    @710MaryJane 7 дней назад +1

    Interesting! 😢

  • @CristinaMariaRodriguezLeon
    @CristinaMariaRodriguezLeon 2 дня назад

    Her faces are very sad 😢

  • @tobberfutooagain2628
    @tobberfutooagain2628 4 дня назад

    Oldest business in the world….

  • @charlesbehlen6225
    @charlesbehlen6225 10 дней назад +7

    Nary a looker amongst 'em.

    • @kathrynkildow3743
      @kathrynkildow3743 9 дней назад +2

      Is that supposed to be funny?

    • @tibzig1
      @tibzig1 8 дней назад +1

      @@kathrynkildow3743 Just an observation. Beauty is not subjective at all when you live in the real world.

    • @acebrandon3522
      @acebrandon3522 6 дней назад

      All Ralpher's, whoof - whoof. 🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀.🧟‍♀

    • @lcarole3131
      @lcarole3131 5 дней назад +1

      I suspect they were however probably all actual Women_ so where are the photos of the Uncommon prostitutes🤔

  • @Maaaaaaaa88aaaaaaaaM
    @Maaaaaaaa88aaaaaaaaM 21 час назад

    World's oldest profession

  • @yvonce7309
    @yvonce7309 2 дня назад

    These women are victims.
    I don’t agree with showing their faces for likes and clicks.
    They can’t even rest in death.

    • @DancingChicken-w8v
      @DancingChicken-w8v День назад

      There is nothing wrong with witnessing how degrading life experience can be. Take it as a history lesson.

  • @acebrandon3522
    @acebrandon3522 6 дней назад

    Who let those Dogs out???🎵🎺🎻🎶🎤🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀🧟‍♀ Whoof-Whoof, da Whoof!!!!