But then the whole Combat Zone was a rodeo. It ran roughly from Tremont to Washington and from Boylston down to Kneeland, extending west onto Stuart Street. The area was infamous for its strip clubs, peep shows, dirty bookstores, booze, drugs, and violence.
The ladies were, in the street parlance of the time, “on the stroll.’’ They would swarm like silverfish near Good Time Charlie’s, a bar on the block that poured men into the night. The women would be there in daylight too, their ranks thinned, working hard for the money.
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The names are gone but not forgotten – places like the Naked i, the Two O’Clock Club, the Pilgrim Theatre, the Intermission Lounge, and the Pussycat Lounge. Strip clubs festooned their front windows with 8-by-10 pictures of their performers, their breasts barely covered by pasties.
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