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Accessed March 14, 2011. "As a kid in the '30s, Reda sang for nickels in Phillipsburg's working-class gin mills. In 1942, when he was a freshman at Phillipsburg High, he quit school and put on a Navy uniform." A resident of Lopatcong Township, New Jersey, Reda died at the age of 92 on September 30, 2017.
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Burlesque was added to the theatre's repertoire around the beginning of World War II, which provided a steady source of income by attracting thousands of sailors stationed in Norfolk. Throughout the 1940s and 50s the theatre continued to operate as a movie house also. In the 1960s the Wells shared in the general decline of downtown Norfolk by converting to an X-rated movie house and occasionally staged live burlesque shows. The backstage area became the Jamaican Room, one of Norfolk's infamous gin mills and brothels.
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Lobby card for The Docks of New York An American tramp steamer docks in New York harbor sometime in the early years of the 20th century before prohibition. In the bowels of the ship, coal stokers are shutting down the furnaces and anticipating a night of shore leave. The bullying third engineer, Andy (Mitchell Lewis) warns the exhausted crew that they will be punished if they return drunk when the vessel sails the following morning. The stokers gather to leer at crude pornographic graffiti scrawled on the engine room wall before debarking to carouse at the local gin-mills.
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Kerens was established in 1881 when the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas was built through the county, according to the Texas Handbook of History, and was named for Judge R. C. Kerens of St. Louis. The railroad bypassed the nearby settlement of Wadeville, and within a short time all of the businesses from Wadeville moved to the new town. By the mid-1890s, the handbook said, the town had three cotton gin- mills, four grocery stores, two hotels, two drug stores, a wagonmaker, and a weekly newspaper named the Navarro Blade. Big Tex, the giant icon of the State Fair of Texas, had his beginnings in Kerens.
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During the 17th century Bow and the Essex bank became a centre for the slaughter and butchery of cattle for the City market. Additionally the piggery which used the mash residue produced by the gin mills at Three Mills meant a ready supply of animal bones, and local entrepreneurs Thomas Frye and Edward Heylyn developed a means to mix this with clay and create a form of fine porcelain, said to rival the best from abroad, known as Bow Porcelain. In November 1753, in Aris's Birmingham Gazette, the following advertisement appeared: > This is to give notice to all painters in the blue and white potting way and > enamellers on chinaware, that by applying at the counting-house at the > china-house near Bow, they may meet with employment and proper encouragement > according to their merit; likewise painters brought up in the snuff-box way, > japanning, fan-painting, &c.;, may have an opportunity of trial, wherein if > they succeed, they shall have due encouragement.
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