Storyville is an amazing  and interesting experiment. Then what it created was a potential for New Orleans to have its distinctive economy. That was an economy based on racial integration, based on culturall mixing, based on the expression of people's needs and desires. It's where you came to see things you have never seen before, to have an exotic taste of a different life and a different kind of living, and potentially into a mingle with people that in a different setting you would never get a chance to , but in this one everyone was the same.

Water cooler lowdown. The phrase "world's oldest profession." was first coined in 1888 by Rogerler Keeplin. America's first integrated neighborhood was thanks to the legalized prostitution. Stroyville's Bordellos gave birth to some of Jazz's most iconic musicians. Taking a radical approach to sex for sale, Storyville helped change the course of American history. Coming up.

In 1860s, you run one of the brothels, was in a dark smoky room, and you are lucky if you were not stabbed to death. Marian hall was a stunning five star joint.

  What she made would be built today worth as much as, you know, the millions.