The Barbary Coast was San Francisco’s original vice district, preceding the less raunchy Tenderloin. It started on the waterfront, catering to sailors seeking booze and women.
Many San Francisco streets have undergone big changes during The City’s history, but few have been transformed as radically as Pacific Street between Columbus and Sansome.
The same area was home to two earlier vice districts: a tent neighborhood called Little Chile, which was home to large numbers of Mexican, Peruvian and Chilean prostitutes during the Gold Rush, and Sydney-Town, a haunt of Australian newcomers, many of them former convicts known as “ticket-of-leave” men. Sydney-Town was cleaned up in 1851 and 1856 by vigilantes, who scared away some of the less desirable from Down Under.
The Barbary Coast was unusual, if not unique, in the annals of sinful U.S. neighborhoods. As M.L. Keire writes in “For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States 1890-1933,” many American cities had vice districts, including New York’s Tenderloin, Chicago’s Levee, and New Orleans’s Storyville. Red-light districts also existed in smaller cities such as Hartford, Connecticut, Butte, Montana and El Paso, Texas.
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