Comments on: Naughty Nellie and the Honest Cop https://sandrawagnerwright.com/naughty-nellie-and-the-honest-cop/ Writer - Historian - Traveller Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:01:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Beatrix Bliss https://sandrawagnerwright.com/naughty-nellie-and-the-honest-cop/#comment-1959 Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:01:30 +0000 https://sandrawagnerwright.com/?p=5469#comment-1959 A lovely article that doesn\’t reinforce the stigmas typically attached to stories of sex workers. Instead it tells it like it was and continues to be: a job many intelligent and industrious women chose for their own benefit. Well done.

]]> By: Sandra https://sandrawagnerwright.com/naughty-nellie-and-the-honest-cop/#comment-1902 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 23:21:41 +0000 https://sandrawagnerwright.com/?p=5469#comment-1902 In reply to Judy Miner mobray.

Thank you so much for commenting. Your memories bring life to my research.

]]> By: Judy Miner mobray https://sandrawagnerwright.com/naughty-nellie-and-the-honest-cop/#comment-1900 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:28:55 +0000 https://sandrawagnerwright.com/?p=5469#comment-1900 When I was a young girl, my father was the boilerman (steam heat) at the Curtis Hotel. I remember after the feds raided the place, Nellie came over to our house to speak with my dad because he had been subpoenaed to testify against her. She was a very elegant women. I can still remember her beautiful pink gown, diamonds, and fur stole. She had a beauty mark on her cheek.

I remember being taken to the hotel after it was shut down. THE FEDS HAD REALLY TORN THE PLACE UP. THINGS WERE THROWN EVERYWHERE. My dad brought carload after carload of things from there. In fact the mattress on my bed where from there. I never knew it was a house of prostitution until I was oldsr.

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