Music City Tales… Companion: Legalizing Prostitution and Bombing Strip Clubs
Nashville Demystified
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24m
We are in the middle of a miniseries called Music City Tales From the 1980s, and this is a companion episode that goes deeper into some of the stuff we covered in last week’s exploration of Lower Broad. Next week we’ll run part two of that episode, but for now we’re going to talk a bit about sex work during the Civil War and then we’re going to share some unbelievable tales about The Classic Cat II, what was, until the late 90s, Nashville’s longest running—and probably most storied—strip clubs.
Further Reading:
The Curious Case of Nashville’s Frail Sisterhood by Angela Serratore
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-curious-case-of-nashvilles-frail-sisterhood-7766757/
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