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A Voice from the Underworld

Memoirs of a woman of the night in SF 100 years ago

November 18, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Out Loud

For two months in 1913, the San Francisco Bulletin published daily installments of the autobiography of an anonymous prostitute the paper called Alice Smith. Her…

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