Portland After Dark; Naughty Portland: It's hard to imagine the Portland we know today, teeming with bars and breweries, as a place where one once had to slink through a backdoor to get a little loose

Authors

Olivia Gunn Kotsishevskaya

Source

Portland Monthly

Date

5-2018

Pages

39-41

Abstract

A tour of some of Portland's current bars with links to Portland's steamy and unseemly history. Tales of brothels, prohibition, and fires that rivaled Hell's fires are told.

Subjects

Lincoln's, Matthew J. Barker, Trudy Irene Scee, Dancing in Paradise: Burning in Paradise, Burning in Hell: Women in Maine's Historical Working Class Dance Industry, Catherine Landrigan, Kitty, Neal Dow, Father of Prohibition, Tomaso's Canteen, Rosie's The Dance Hall, Whorehouse Riot of 1849, Bramhall, Parisienne Sauna, State Theater, Adult Films,

Recommended Citation

Kotsishevskaya, Olivia Gunn, "Portland After Dark; Naughty Portland: It's hard to imagine the Portland we know today, teeming with bars and breweries, as a place where one once had to slink through a backdoor to get a little loose" (2018). Maine News Index – Portland Monthly. 2257.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_portmonthly/2257