Seattle Escorts: Big City Weeklies
One weekly paper that I once wrote a column for went under financially because the publishers would not publish liquor, tobacco or shady personal favor ads. Since the West Seattle Herald is a family newspaper, it has to try harder to compete with the outside world of “anything goes” advertising. No doubt that in some circles sex sells. Alaska, an early outpost of the USA, still generates tourist interest by focusing on its early history of prostitution. Tour boat passengers walk up and down the Skagway main street where former bordellos are showcased as tourist attractions. In the windows are replicas of early prostitutes in their flaming garb once beckoning to the men who dominated the Alaska population in earlier times.
In Port Angeles, where the boat was the only transportation, the local prostitutes met the boat when it came in to dock. My mother, Myrtia Bright, who spent many of her early years in Port Angeles, told me a story ab …
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