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Barbary Coast was a part <strong>of</strong> <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>’s <strong>Bohemian</strong>ism because <strong>of</strong> its<br />

unconventionality, for, you know, there is conventionality even in Vice. Here<br />

was the rendezvous <strong>of</strong> sailor men from all parts <strong>of</strong> the world, for here they found<br />

companionship and joviality.<br />

Up to the time <strong>of</strong> the closing <strong>of</strong> Barbary Coast molestation <strong>of</strong> women on the<br />

streets <strong>of</strong> <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> was almost unheard <strong>of</strong>. Since its closing it is becoming<br />

more and more hazardous for women to walk alone at night in the only large<br />

city in the world that always had the reputation <strong>of</strong> guarding its womankind.<br />

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