Vices of a Big City (1890) points out that Henry Meagher's All Night House is located directly opposite the offices of the Excise Board. The point is that the Excise Board required saloons to close at 1 PM and to remain closed Sundays
207 Bowery, Bertrand Meyer's Concert Saloon, it is pointed out, is filled with women nightly, who smoke cigarettes and drink gin. The author does not call them "disorderly women" (prostitutes) but simply seems to be repulsed at the idea of women smoking and drinking gin.
255 Bowery, Louis Stajer's Concert Hall. The author states that it was a resort for low women and their male companions who use it as a meeting place.
For the remaining pictures, I have largely limited myself to pictures of buildings identified as "disorderly houses. There were probably hundreds on the Lower East Side.
Following in this series, I have finally found the address of Bismarck Hall, 284 Pearl street. Bismark Hall was the hangout of a reputed vampire, Ludwig the Bloodsucker. Hopefully the building is still there. He was reportedly bald but had hair sprouting from every bodily orifice as well as a large tuft from the tip of his nose. He would drink glasses of human blood in the saloon.
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