the Barbary Coast's disreputable Aussies
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sergebroomI'm reading Herbert Asbury's 1933 book The Barbary Coast, which is about San Francisco from 1848 to 1906. I recently finished the section about the city's Sydney-Town, thus called because of the predominance of ruffians from Down Under.
The book doesn't see fit to elaborate.
Perhaps the lowest of all the Sydney-Town dives were the Boar's Head, where the principal attraction was a sexual exhibition in which a woman and a boar participated...
The book doesn't see fit to elaborate.
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