What It Was Like To Be A Madam In A Wild West Saloon

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  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3643

    I'm just grateful I was born in a time where air conditioners are a thing.

    • @user-nj9vo2uv6b
      @user-nj9vo2uv6b 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.

    • @cyberdreame
      @cyberdreame 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You are everywhere, you don't sleep, are you a demon. DO YOU KNOW the guy without a beard

    • @Natoreo
      @Natoreo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not in the UK they aren't

    • @whiterunguard6202
      @whiterunguard6202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      There's aircondioner in the theaters that's why they were so popular

    • @petercarioscia9189
      @petercarioscia9189 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @EbberDeeMills forgot about all the animals eh? Lack of sanitation, lack of plumbing?
      It stunk to high hell. There's no way around it.

  • @YEUWYU
    @YEUWYU 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2915

    how about an episode about mental health insitutions over the years?

    • @Friendship1nmillion
      @Friendship1nmillion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Seen the Movie "Shutter Island"? 🧠🕵️‍♂️🎭

    • @steazymccheesy2649
      @steazymccheesy2649 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@Friendship1nmillion Now that's one mindfuck of a movie! Amazing old school vibes it gives you too

    • @dudeman7562
      @dudeman7562 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Yes!!! Mental institutions in the early 1900’s and the use of lobotomies

    • @chloewright1
      @chloewright1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Good idea!

    • @Helen-cs2zx
      @Helen-cs2zx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'd love to see that, even hospitals too!

  • @clouseaux
    @clouseaux 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2016

    Seattle Public schools was founded with money from the estate of a madame that passed away without an heir, she left it all to the children. Yo, Respek

    • @sheilalhigginbotham2785
      @sheilalhigginbotham2785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Respect

    • @x0xtran9x0x
      @x0xtran9x0x 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I live in Seattle, wow didn’t know, thanks!

    • @em1osmurf
      @em1osmurf 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sheilalhigginbotham2785 r/whooosh

    • @tazdevil225
      @tazdevil225 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@sheilalhigginbotham2785 her name was Lou Graham. She also made most of Seattle's wealthiest families wealthy.

    • @TheRealThickiminaj
      @TheRealThickiminaj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      STFU WHAAAAT?! i live in seattle. Thats dope.

  • @libertyann439
    @libertyann439 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1494

    Amazing how the women were "soiled" but attracted many male customers.

    • @christinelawrence4315
      @christinelawrence4315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      liberty ann.. it's the world's oldest profession.. lol

    • @ummadam4663
      @ummadam4663 4 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      Customers were soiled too

    • @50shekels
      @50shekels 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      liberty Ann You can’t break in something twice;)

    • @dallymoo7816
      @dallymoo7816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      The customers were even more soiled and probably married lol

    • @dallymoo7816
      @dallymoo7816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @Sugarholic Sheep Same with the men who visit

  • @markwilloughbywood3868
    @markwilloughbywood3868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Some Madames even supplied young men for the gentlemen that had "other interests"!
    There's an amazing book called Soiled Doves by Ann Seagraves that's a must read on this subject...

    • @gulfgypsy
      @gulfgypsy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      About 20 years ago on a cross country trip I stopped in Wall, South Dakota. In one of the gift shops I saw and purchased 'Soiled Doves'. As I was paying for the cashier looked at me then thumbed through the book and stopped at a page 34 --- And joked the woman in that photograph could have been my twin.
      I looked at it and yes --- Same nose, eyes and hair.
      Was sort of strange looking at a photo at least a 100 years old and seeing my twin staring back at me ..........

    • @audralynn7454
      @audralynn7454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for sharing, I'll be looking for it!

    • @judeinLA.
      @judeinLA. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gulfgypsy Your probably related to your Doppelgänger

    • @joehall6559
      @joehall6559 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i just asked about boy/men hookers did they cost more or less . but thanks for bringing that up

    • @robertmargraves3509
      @robertmargraves3509 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes I want to read this book asap Barnes and noble have it ???

  • @USNBLUE
    @USNBLUE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1650

    Feel so sorry for the babies that where born because of this. Those children were often treated very poorly by society.

  • @henryrheeder2303
    @henryrheeder2303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1434

    Id like to hear about the flapper girls of the 20s

    • @debysteele3806
      @debysteele3806 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I second what Henry wrote!!! Please do that time period.. you'll find a lot of material!!

    • @Jdb74985
      @Jdb74985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes!!

    • @billyt.7306
      @billyt.7306 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      They were flapping their beef curtains

    • @caitgems1
      @caitgems1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gammon flaps

    • @debysteele3806
      @debysteele3806 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@billyt.7306 you probably look for any opportunity to say crude and stupid stuff, right? Just can't wait to let everyone know how "classy" you are! Good job! Wow. Now run along and play some Dungeons and Dragons or World of Warcraft...

  • @keelahrose
    @keelahrose 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1609

    It would be so great if you guys actually cited your sources in the description of the videos, or listed them at the end of the video. Not only would that seriously improve your overall credibility and allow teachers to make better use of these videos as student resources, it would allow viewers who are interested in learning more to seek the information directly from the same source that you got it from. And of course, the actual historians who did the research deserve some credit too.

    • @nicholasmoreno9380
      @nicholasmoreno9380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      kaduzy interesting how Weird History skips right over this comment

    • @iriemonmon
      @iriemonmon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@nicholasmoreno9380 They probably didn't see it yet...

    • @petercarioscia9189
      @petercarioscia9189 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      They get around all that by tagging their videos as 'entertainment'

    • @nicholasmoreno9380
      @nicholasmoreno9380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The Left can't Meme reminiscent of Fox News ...

    • @boop8849
      @boop8849 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      John Smith lol because the uk is the epitome unbiased journalism and freedom of expression; give me a break 🙄

  • @thiswolffbites
    @thiswolffbites 4 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    this can be summed up in 3 words: “pimpin ain’t easy” 💵

    • @comettamer
      @comettamer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's hard out there for a pimp, but even harder out there for a ho.

  • @jimkatz1
    @jimkatz1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    My great-grandmother was a madam with a boarding house near the docks in Eastern Massachusetts. She ran the only Kosher brothel around - although I am not quite sure what kosher means in the context of a brothel! She did many of the things noted here, including starting the first 'ladies bank' giving interest-free loans to women. Probably had a piano in the parlour, though, in the 1870's, not likely automatic.

    • @shawnalynn5198
      @shawnalynn5198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      this is so interesting, ty for sharing!

    • @trawlins396
      @trawlins396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow!

    • @mrbutch308
      @mrbutch308 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Well, "kosher" (or more properly "kashrut") generally refers to food and drink. so I assume she only served kosher snacks. "Don't go away hungry, have a hot pastrami on rye with a nice kosher dill pickle!" No bacon or shrimp hors d'oeuvres (a bad pun there). But who knows? Only Jewish girls? No patrons who were uncircumcised? Yiddish spoken on the premises? Oh the possibilities! Maybe the men paid the girls for an hour of kvetching.

    • @jimkatz1
      @jimkatz1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Some of the other postings refer to some very positive things these madams accomplished, as well as some of the seamier stuff. This great grandma of mine also did some of the good stuff, funding education and opening the first ladies bank in New England. She is supposed to have specialized in free loans for women making a go of it in business, perhaps after retiring from experience with her.

    • @jimkatz1
      @jimkatz1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mrbutch308 I am betting that most of those suggestions are true to some extent. Kosher food, very likely, Yiddish spoken, definitely, Paid kvetching as much as shtupping - that is still a constant in the prostitution business,

  • @medusaspupil
    @medusaspupil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1027

    They forgot to talk about the STD's in the Wild West

    • @CJ9007
      @CJ9007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      Master Blaster true, safe to assume it was rampant

    • @kooringagnd
      @kooringagnd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Could probably make several videos on medical and mental health going back a couple of hundred years.

    • @DonnaChamberson
      @DonnaChamberson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Well AIDS wasn’t around

    • @spacevadr10
      @spacevadr10 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @@DonnaChamberson there were still a bunch of others though

    • @DonnaChamberson
      @DonnaChamberson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      That’s very true Jared. Very true...

  • @rdgr
    @rdgr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    My grandmother was born and lived part of childhood in the Old West of South Dakota in 1889, so I was not surprised from this as I heard her stories, along with people she knew from childhood, about the Old West. It was a very interesting time.

  • @1standlast
    @1standlast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    I'd love to see a video about the lifestyle difference between the upper/middle/lower class during the Great Depression!

    • @trawlins396
      @trawlins396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can research that yourself easily.

  • @sheltertwo7957
    @sheltertwo7957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This is one of the most fascinating pieces of history in my state. We’ve still got several operating brothels!

  • @tracycarmack9714
    @tracycarmack9714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Beauty and feminine charms took on a different meaning back then.

    • @Juvijuju
      @Juvijuju 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      💀💀💀

    • @ScenekidzrockXD
      @ScenekidzrockXD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For real

    • @eddybrevet6816
      @eddybrevet6816 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Christian values, where hv they got us, they hv fiddled with the nature of man, feminist included

  • @DCMarvelMultiverse
    @DCMarvelMultiverse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +245

    i remember being a tour guide in St. Louis. I would bring folks by the spot where an African American madam once had a bordello so big that it had two zip codes. She serviced all the top politicians and was considered the most powerful woman in Missouri politics. As for Lexington, KY, the high end madam business is alive and well. Several local newscasters have been caught coming out of places that are operated by the same handful of women, including one who co-hosted the news with his wife, a former Miss Kentucky.

    • @trawlins396
      @trawlins396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That bordello in Saint Louis is probably where Scott Joplin worked.

    • @robertmargraves3509
      @robertmargraves3509 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well look when stock market crashed pussy was still selling you think 🤔🤔🤔🤔 $$$$$

  • @anderswibbidy449
    @anderswibbidy449 4 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    Do a video on life during the Great Depression

  • @Khomann
    @Khomann 4 ปีที่แล้ว +525

    Probably a lot of telling that one dude to stop shouting "Lenny!" downstairs

  • @oliviadesign
    @oliviadesign 4 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    Very interesting. I like hearing about how women made their way in the world even when all the rules were stacked against them.

    • @darshikasubashini8621
      @darshikasubashini8621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sadly...in the worst way possible...they clearly died as broken women

    • @willbuck6596
      @willbuck6596 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No sources are cited to lend some credibiity. I seriously doubt the accuracy of much of the video

    • @vannavanity1195
      @vannavanity1195 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You might like Gordon Bakken. Awesome historian of women's studies. He died only a few years ago ☹

    • @lulabloom4636
      @lulabloom4636 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      resourcefulness...i think they must have been amazing people, at least incredibly interesting

    • @trawlins396
      @trawlins396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The "rules" weren't stacked against them. Stop being a drama queen..

  • @alexiscaldera3793
    @alexiscaldera3793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love all the supportive comments for women of the adult entertainment industry! 👏🥰

  • @orchdorkification
    @orchdorkification 4 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    I’d LOVE a video about life in Spain during the Inquisition!

    • @austinwilliams7919
      @austinwilliams7919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition

    • @hvzxjgqnqmz
      @hvzxjgqnqmz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I recommend you the tv serie La Plaga. It has english subs

    • @orchdorkification
      @orchdorkification 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      candelas hablo español! Gracias por la recomendación!

    • @katg9507
      @katg9507 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      austin williams The charges are...

    • @thatontariofarmer
      @thatontariofarmer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@austinwilliams7919 shit you beat me to it 😂 well played

  • @Staingo_Jenkins
    @Staingo_Jenkins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Surprised there was no mention of STI'S or old fashion sheep skin condoms.

  • @cantthinkofaname7525
    @cantthinkofaname7525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    did anyone else catch the “late 1900s”

    • @vannjunkin8041
      @vannjunkin8041 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yeah it threw me off lol

    • @petercarioscia9189
      @petercarioscia9189 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yea took me a second to parse it. Late 1900s...

    • @daveski7
      @daveski7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Yeah pretty sure he meant late 19th century lmao

    • @masteroutlaw100
      @masteroutlaw100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Late 1900's hookers just didn't have the class their contemporaries did the century prior

    • @silverdropstang
      @silverdropstang 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes! Lol. Was just about to post

  • @alvarovaldovinos6836
    @alvarovaldovinos6836 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very well and respectfully put together. Now we need a TV series clarifying the loves of these women in a huge documentary series.

  • @spinnycupcake8029
    @spinnycupcake8029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    I'd love to hear about Tudor prostitutes and brothels or anything tudor related!

    • @christinelawrence4315
      @christinelawrence4315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I'd like to hear about what life was like in Ancient Roman and Egyptian times too!

    • @jodeerochelle3370
      @jodeerochelle3370 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Me too. I think I have watched everything on the Tudor's.

    • @MrAdryan1603
      @MrAdryan1603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That would be awesome! I think we share the same total fascination with the Tudors, girl

    • @Toastrackman
      @Toastrackman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not if they looked anything like Baldrick 🤮

    • @KITTY10171
      @KITTY10171 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tudors was seriously one of my favorite shows!😍 even tho their reign was short lived they really made a mark in history!

  • @robertcronin6603
    @robertcronin6603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    There wasn't a lot of career options for women at that time - it must have been a very tough life... also, STD's were rampant

  • @brookewoodside6123
    @brookewoodside6123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    Please do what it was like growing up in ancient Egypt

    • @spacechimp5141
      @spacechimp5141 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      already did

    • @andreasimon2752
      @andreasimon2752 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well do it again!

    • @RUN_IT_UP_
      @RUN_IT_UP_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andreasimon2752 no

    • @andreasimon2752
      @andreasimon2752 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RUN_IT_UP_
      I wasn't asking u to do it silly...
      Have a good new year!

    • @RUN_IT_UP_
      @RUN_IT_UP_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andreasimon2752 it dont need to be done already is one and bunch of vids
      Dumbass

  • @anderswibbidy449
    @anderswibbidy449 4 ปีที่แล้ว +324

    Or life during the dust bowl

    • @alphaomega5878
      @alphaomega5878 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Huh. Its been a minute since I've thought of the dust bowl. I think we also gloss over it in schools.

    • @phyllisdevries5734
      @phyllisdevries5734 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@alphaomega5878 just like they omitted, the soiled doves in history class 😜

    • @anderswibbidy449
      @anderswibbidy449 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think at my middle school they did maybe a day on it

    • @douglasgriffiths3534
      @douglasgriffiths3534 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The dust bowl was also during the Depression. (Jan Griffiths).

  • @violetmahan5269
    @violetmahan5269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    please make a day in the life of a child laborer in the industrial era i would love to see that! : )

  • @sophiamorrillmancilla8174
    @sophiamorrillmancilla8174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    grew up out here in Utah... wish we learned more about women who ran the Wild West in school!!

  • @itsaaronlolz
    @itsaaronlolz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +378

    I could imagine all of the “respectable” women looking down upon these entrepreneurial women meanwhile their husbands made them wealthy. 🧐

    • @sandra-jones
      @sandra-jones 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      And they were hooking up with the Blacksmith 🤭

    • @sandra-jones
      @sandra-jones 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Ruthanne D'Antuono 😯🤭

    • @miauthe1
      @miauthe1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Simply Sasuke ok sasuke

    • @darshikasubashini8621
      @darshikasubashini8621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Oh yeah....their husbands ran around and those wives couldn't stop it or divorce....no wonder there were many cases of congenital syphilis

    • @Hannah-zw9ow
      @Hannah-zw9ow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I mean.... isn’t that still how it goes? 🤷🏽‍♀️

  • @patricksputnick5094
    @patricksputnick5094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    I misread the title, "What was it like to be a madman in the Wild West" Lol !

  • @understandingautism1389
    @understandingautism1389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That painting at 9:00 was a painting my grandma had for years!

    • @kat35lulu88
      @kat35lulu88 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have a (cheap reproduction) of that same painting!!!!

  • @MsViciousBaby
    @MsViciousBaby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Can you do a video about black women being forced to work in those brothels? I found that second picture you had was extremely fascinating.

    • @shannonardo
      @shannonardo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I noticed this in the second picture as well!….

  • @averygeorge4192
    @averygeorge4192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    This sounds exactly like the courtesans of the Japanese pleasure districts in the Edo period!

  • @iandoherty6590
    @iandoherty6590 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    what it was like to be a gangster in 1920's-1930's Chicago

    • @xmanxavier77
      @xmanxavier77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That would be great

    • @PerceptionVsReality333
      @PerceptionVsReality333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We wuz gangstas mang.

    • @robertfitzsimmons9428
      @robertfitzsimmons9428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My grandfather was,, Detroit, Purple Gang. 6.5” tall, one glass eye and as wide as a door, man could scare the hell out of ya.

  • @aaroncooke5818
    @aaroncooke5818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    you should make a video about what it was like to live in medieval Ireland before and after being taken over by the British

    • @WeirdHistory
      @WeirdHistory  4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      In the meantime, we do have Potato Famine in the works

    • @aaroncooke5818
      @aaroncooke5818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Weird History sounds interesting, looking forward to it as an Irishman myself!

    • @personl7949
      @personl7949 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm bored of this attitude as an Irish person, 🤔

    • @sammygouge1325
      @sammygouge1325 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That would be a good one

  • @bonniecurrie4906
    @bonniecurrie4906 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great video! I live in Lovelock, Nevada (a mining town), where the brothels are still legal and date back to the 1800s.

  • @Bluebelle51
    @Bluebelle51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I was fortunate enough to work in a nursing home back in the late 80's in an old gold country town that was part of the California gold rush of 1849 (really, probably more like 1852) There was a woman I took care of who was 104 at the time. As it turned out, she had been the madam of the local brothel that is currently still operating though now it's merely a tourist hotel with the saloon downstairs.
    When I first met her, she took one look at me and said, "I could make so much money with you honey". I didn't understand what she meant, assuming that because of her age she just wasn't making sense. It wasn't until later that I found out her previous occupation and instantly understood. Once she got to know me better, she told me a LOT of stories about her time being a madam in "the old west". She was a lovely person as an old lady, but I'm glad I never knew her in her younger days, she was a genuine bad ass

    • @jermarianamccoy7264
      @jermarianamccoy7264 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She gave you a compliment compliment

    • @mfar3016
      @mfar3016 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I’d love to hear some of those stories!!

    • @Bluebelle51
      @Bluebelle51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mfar3016 she was a true character, apparently well known for her knife skills

    • @Carrotless_
      @Carrotless_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for sharing

    • @alexandraperez207
      @alexandraperez207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would love to read some of her stories too

  • @mattsherwoodandsteel1616
    @mattsherwoodandsteel1616 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love seeing all the old decor of the day. Some of those places were pretty “Pimped Out”

  • @ryanleech9139
    @ryanleech9139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I just watched history channel’s Men who built America: Frontiersmen and loved it. Would love a video about the frontiersmen in the early 19th century, specially men like Davy Crockett and Kit Carson who both had incredibly interesting lives

    • @lorriehenry7821
      @lorriehenry7821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ryan Leech I’m watching that now! Very interesting and well done. Makes me proud to be an American 🇺🇸

    • @punnymoney3692
      @punnymoney3692 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lorriehenry7821 same

    • @trawlins396
      @trawlins396 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lorriehenry7821 it's on Amazon Prime now.

  • @ufosrus
    @ufosrus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    What sad choices women had in those days: either marry or become a prostitute.

    • @marsonsaturn
      @marsonsaturn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Or stay alone and be a writer

    • @ufosrus
      @ufosrus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      @@marsonsaturn Yes, with a male pen name...

    • @baldviking1970
      @baldviking1970 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The 19th Century and the industrial revolution was a period of transition. In pre modern time women ruled at home, where most of the action was for most of the people, while men often specialised into doing primarily just one thing, like hunting, fishing, farming, soldiering, baking, blacksmithing. In many ways women had richer and more varied lifes than men. Staying in family or village groups and having to learn to master a vide varity of household trades. Usually everybody did what their father or mother had done, stayed at the same place they were born and kept in the same social class. Exceptions being made for the nobility and to an extent small middle classes. But there too you usually did what your father and mother had done. The 19th Century changed all that. Yes, women were often one or two generations behind men, and that was unjust, but everybody got more options and choices after having had close to none for like the beginning of time. And as for working options for women at the period of this video, I think there were a thousand times more female servants than prostitutes and a hundred times more female factory workers than prostitutes.

    • @Sunset553
      @Sunset553 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      If the tv western portrayed women with any accuracy, a woman could also be a teacher.

    • @baldviking1970
      @baldviking1970 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Sunset553 As more tasks were moved from within the family or village group into paid labour, or entirely new never before seen trades showed up, and as the economy shifted from self sustaining into early capitalism, women laborers usually show up shortly after men in most trades. For the mid west and western territories of USA during this period, I would think a lot of women were working as cleaners, waitresses, teachers, mid wifes and nurses , shop clerks, seamstresses, baby sitters, housekeepers, maids, but also in farming and small factories. I know of female police constables and railway employees from the late 19th century. There were often local expectations for women laborers to stay unmarried, but when brought to court (something that did not often happen) these were usually overturned.

  • @odhranfarrell7377
    @odhranfarrell7377 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    How about the history of treatment of deaf people and history of sign language

    • @erikm8372
      @erikm8372 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      odhran farrell ok make a video

    • @mickeyjoe1973
      @mickeyjoe1973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Pink Floyd4, how about "get a grip" and "grow the fuck up"?

  • @robertvalderaz7329
    @robertvalderaz7329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In La Grange , Texas the town was dependent on the famous brothel. They donated to build and finance the fire dept. as well as the schools.

    • @johnthonig8832
      @johnthonig8832 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was there as a 14 year old.
      Late 60s

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A+ video!
    LOVE IT! What a fascinating history and culture of the madams!

  • @moonchild7222
    @moonchild7222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Do one about the ancient Druids!!

  • @hbeachley
    @hbeachley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Some of the Madams also entirely funded local schools, “legitimate” theater, and were the first people to recognize the benefit of and brought simple refrigeration and air conditioning to the west.

  • @megabyteme5545
    @megabyteme5545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Delores's "cat house" still stands in downt town Helena Montana right by the library!

    • @AuroraBoarder1
      @AuroraBoarder1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Confucius say, "Woman who puts husband in doghouse will find him in cathouse."

  • @brianfuller7691
    @brianfuller7691 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Whiskey, Whoring and Wagering were three vices/ diversions that were anywhere in the West. There was a difference between house girls and the crib girls. There was often an uneasy relationship between the brothels and local authorities and making friends in high places could help you.

  • @zimrah4837
    @zimrah4837 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Wow! How terrible to have to do that for a living in a time where your reputation was king. I feel sorry for these women.

    • @trawlins396
      @trawlins396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You're a fool. The madams became millionaires.

  • @nikshmenga
    @nikshmenga 4 ปีที่แล้ว +284

    Never mind the Madams, how about the weird history of condoms?

    • @kayegolden7435
      @kayegolden7435 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      nikshmenga yes, I would like to see this lol

    • @eggsandbananas4983
      @eggsandbananas4983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes yes yes

    • @philipmarlowe5035
      @philipmarlowe5035 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      In days of old,when knights were bold,and rubbers had not yet been invented.......they tied a sock around their cock and the girls went away contented.......

    • @juburr9750
      @juburr9750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @ThatOneAsianBroChick eeww 🤢

    • @deboralee1623
      @deboralee1623 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ¿you watched _Wild West Tech_, too? 📺🍆

  • @rolandbujeiro42
    @rolandbujeiro42 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Thank God for modern day plumbing! Sometimes it'd be weeks between baths. The smell must have been putrid. And yet never a shortage of customers.

  • @duchi882
    @duchi882 4 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    *What its like to be a Madam in the Wild West:*
    1. It wasn't pleasant...most of the time

  • @MsZoedog66
    @MsZoedog66 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love Weird History - and Sarsaparilla!❤❤

  • @michaelpelz2190
    @michaelpelz2190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great content and monologue. Thanks

  • @jackmehoff7157
    @jackmehoff7157 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This channel is awesome,can you make a video bout the infamous 27 Club...that would really cool!

  • @RustySpoons6490
    @RustySpoons6490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    I can’t imagine the likely abusive and exhausting life of a prostitute. I think he/she would have to possess a lot of inner self-dignity to get through every day with that degrading occupation.

    • @chikaka2012
      @chikaka2012 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      It’s sad these “soiled doves” had to endure abuse, STDs, unwanted pregnancies, dangerous back alley abortions, etc. just to have a roof over their head. They were slaves because they didn’t even get to keep the money they made!

    • @Hannah-zw9ow
      @Hannah-zw9ow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The job is only degrading if you see it that way. Plenty of sex workers describe feeling powerful and confident. The only negative is that it’s frowned upon by society for no legitimate reason.

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well what else are they going to do? Weren't prostitutes usually poor? That's why they sold their bodies to begin with.

    • @gypsierose3611
      @gypsierose3611 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ummm been thier done that and it it's not degrading at all.
      Still proud of it and love sex work

    • @emilybarclay8831
      @emilybarclay8831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@gypsierose3611 I’m sure when it’s your choice and a job you enjoy it’s not degrading at all but for a woman who had no choice in the matter it may have been horrible. I, for one, would absolutely hate being involved in that line of work so if I lived in that time and was forced to choose between prostitution and starvation I would find it very degrading. The issue is that a lot of these women didn’t really have a choice and that’s what makes it degrading

  • @Renwoxing13
    @Renwoxing13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "Wherever there is BLOOD FLOWING"
    Damn, You boys are smooth! You really went there didn't you!
    Haha, I
    ♡♡♡🖤🖤🖤LOVE🖤🖤🖤♡♡♡
    it!

  • @bob0s062
    @bob0s062 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Madam Millie Cusey from Silver City, NM fed the local poor kids during a mine shutdown. You could do a whole video about her. She was a wonderful person.

  • @tbell61
    @tbell61 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fascinating. I love hearing about this stuff!

  • @danniis9444
    @danniis9444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    Good Lord I can't even imagine the smell...and don't want to

    • @jjdjj5392
      @jjdjj5392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      They had ivory soap back then and many other products we still use today.

    • @dallymoo7816
      @dallymoo7816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      They had perfume and soap dude

    • @InfernalLeo777
      @InfernalLeo777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dallymoo7816 no.

    • @drewgehringer7813
      @drewgehringer7813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @ThatOneAsianBroChick depends on how much the brothel charged: the more expensive places were in fact able to afford giving the women one or more hot baths a day, fine food, and such
      A U.S. Senator isn't going to meet up with 'entertainment' in some converted flophouse serving stale bread and moldy bacon, after all

    • @breadfan262
      @breadfan262 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah you do

  • @roningaming_1
    @roningaming_1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    - Famous outlaws of the old west
    - Famous bank robbers during the Great Depression-era
    - Frank Hamer and Maney Gault, the two former Texas Rangers who attempt to track down and apprehend notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde.
    These would be pretty cool episodes 😁

  • @0ld_Scratch
    @0ld_Scratch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    please do a video on Conquistadores!

  • @constantdarkfog49
    @constantdarkfog49 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm amazed by the knowledge of so many of these Madams names & brief detailed histories of them.

  • @veteranbroad8802
    @veteranbroad8802 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome history !!!!

  • @rickkinki4624
    @rickkinki4624 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Interesting video.
    I'd love to see a video on liquor in the Old West. The common misconception comes from Hollywood, that men would walk into a saloon and order a shot of whiskey!
    The fact is, most people preferred mixed drinks. Whiskey mixed with soda, milk, juice, or whatever they happened to have.
    A video telling the truth about this would be awesome!

    • @johnthonig8832
      @johnthonig8832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My research finds wine as the number one choice of drink
      Then- warm beer
      Then- the watered down whiskey

    • @rickkinki4624
      @rickkinki4624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@johnthonig8832 I think you're pretty darn close. It's just the whiskey would, whenever possible, be mixed with something.

    • @johnthonig8832
      @johnthonig8832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rickkinki4624 agreed

  • @carinsvoice
    @carinsvoice 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There are a number of great stories about Madams in the Twin Cities at the same time. If you're interested in more info, look up Ida Dorsey, Nina Clifford, Long Kate, and others.

  • @HenryODonovan
    @HenryODonovan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I would be most interested in the "weird history" of American radio! Would that be possible?

  • @dm4life579
    @dm4life579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best channel for my Deadlands game.

  • @snottnott
    @snottnott 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve been watching these as a way to further accuracy in my cowboy comic, these have been super helpful!!

  • @melanietoth1376
    @melanietoth1376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My mother always said she wanted to be an old west madame. She had the personality for it and she was an entrepreneur who started and ran several businesses during her life

    • @Armando_Brown32
      @Armando_Brown32 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Although a lot of hurdles would have to be cleared, the possibility is there if she opened an “old west” themed brothel in one of the Nevada counties w/ legal prostitution.

  • @marshaltito7232
    @marshaltito7232 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As a Coloradoan, I'm proud of our representation in this episode.

  • @mariannawaldroup9276
    @mariannawaldroup9276 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You have to give them respect ✊ they helped the economy

    • @TheSonWhoCums6669
      @TheSonWhoCums6669 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They were powerful working woman who did their best to survive in a male dominated society. I’m proud of them and proud to be a woman.

  • @deganner7440
    @deganner7440 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this channel. The narrator cracks me up 👍🏼

  • @JulieDodgshon
    @JulieDodgshon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great photos! I enjoy your channel thanks 🙏

  • @tiarrasmusic
    @tiarrasmusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My grandma lived and grew up in an orphanage during the great Depression. Please do WHAT IT WAS LIKE DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION!!!!:):):)

  • @tabithawolf6077
    @tabithawolf6077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was great! I’d like to see one on Wyatt Earp or Jesse James!

  • @carlbowles1808
    @carlbowles1808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    These women did the best they could with what they had and succeeded. I tip my hat to them in respect.

  • @Frenchylikeshikes
    @Frenchylikeshikes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You make videos on unusual historical subjects, and honestly it's a breath of fresh air. Great channel 👍🏻👍🏻

  • @violetnympth7083
    @violetnympth7083 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Straight up my fave channel

  • @1marilynable
    @1marilynable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I'm a drag queen and would love if you could do a video on the history of drag and how it got to where it is today. All the struggles and different eras would be so interesting in a video !!

    • @Craig-pm2kc
      @Craig-pm2kc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I would prefer they didn't.

    • @adamizeboudjene6305
      @adamizeboudjene6305 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Craig-pm2kc I’d prefer it if you shutup

    • @Craig-pm2kc
      @Craig-pm2kc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@adamizeboudjene6305 💩

    • @trawlins396
      @trawlins396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Craig-pm2kc agree,! NOBODY wants to see that fukery.

    • @trawlins396
      @trawlins396 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please no!

  • @DrRockter5150
    @DrRockter5150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Being a history FIEND, I'm a huge fan of this channel! I was wondering if y'all have any interest in doing a video about the infamous Chicken Ranch in La Grange, TX? Looking forward to each and every video!

    • @trawlins396
      @trawlins396 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Books are better. Anything you want to research READ A BOOK. Don't follow TH-cam vids. This is a lot of entertainment mixed in.

  • @AmyRach1979
    @AmyRach1979 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I enjoyed this .....thank you

  • @miaseclecticcuisine8182
    @miaseclecticcuisine8182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love, Love the video.

  • @TheStranger255
    @TheStranger255 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like this channel a lot, always unexpectable, thank you !

  • @daviedmond4639
    @daviedmond4639 4 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    The room had to smell like death when all were gathered together in a room. Ppl in general had to smell rancid anyhow

    • @MrYeahyuhhh
      @MrYeahyuhhh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      people bathed back then

    • @MoetChandonHollywoodlifestyles
      @MoetChandonHollywoodlifestyles 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@MrYeahyuhhh but not enough

    • @Sweetdification
      @Sweetdification 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      No Actually people bathe too much Now?! You shouldn't bathe everyday because the damages your skin I want to keep My natural oils

    • @MoetChandonHollywoodlifestyles
      @MoetChandonHollywoodlifestyles 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@Sweetdification Translation-> You stink. Got ya!

    • @Twitter_Posts
      @Twitter_Posts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Sweetdification You probably smell just like how people did in the 1800’s

  • @bryanx0317
    @bryanx0317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    6:06 "Good looking women" 🤣

  • @christie8493
    @christie8493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Can you do courtesans of Venice? Veronica Franco etc.

  • @LovingAtlanta
    @LovingAtlanta 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍Interesting. Just goes to show that women are always/often the backbone of communities in one way or another. Thanks for sharing your research. 💞

  • @AutumnHaunts
    @AutumnHaunts 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I lived in a former brothel on the old pony express trail route in Northern California. It was haunted as f*** and I am traumatized from my years spent there. A Wild West cowboy “customer” would stand at the foot of my bed and just stare at me. I would hear his boots coming up the stairs and smell his cigar smoke.

  • @chloewright1
    @chloewright1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "Next time you're gambling at your local brothel" Yeah, coz there's one just around the corner from everyone isn't there?

    • @linda10989
      @linda10989 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I spit Jack Daniels through my nose when he said that...and just so you know, it hurts...plus it's a waste of good alcohol

    • @kevino1489
      @kevino1489 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

    • @agoogleuser4443
      @agoogleuser4443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There very well may be, but you just don't know about it.

    • @darshikasubashini8621
      @darshikasubashini8621 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      More like your local STD nest....

    • @flext-rex8284
      @flext-rex8284 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      In Nevada there could be

  • @sonu-wu7kq
    @sonu-wu7kq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    We are actually lucky to be born now

  • @GarganoGambino
    @GarganoGambino 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ‘Next time your @ ur local brothel, have a watered down whiskey!’ 🤣🤣👌🏻

  • @sheilalarson8964
    @sheilalarson8964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting video & I enjoy the humor interspersed between the facts. For those wanting more, find Anne Seagraves' book "Soiled Doves." I picked it up in Bodie years ago.

  • @vickiefowler1429
    @vickiefowler1429 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was really interesting... thanks for sharing!

  • @havco501st7
    @havco501st7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    What was life like during the Vietnam war like for the Vietnamese

    • @khaitran523
      @khaitran523 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Vietnamese here, which side you want to know about? South or North?, and the Vietnam war is not long ago, its just like 40 years, you can find documents about that matter easily.

    • @USNBLUE
      @USNBLUE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Kodiak Express I agree America shouldn't never have been involved in Nam. However, Vietnam went to war and America intervened! For what? Nam is still communist. And there are no excuses for our Soldiers to be treated the way they were by liberals and the media. May all of them rot for that.

    • @USNBLUE
      @USNBLUE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Kodiak Express smh. Just an angry hate filled rant. You go from hating American soldiers to hating Jews. Go away.

    • @donnebes9421
      @donnebes9421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Orphan I tried to give you a few more thumbs up but it wouldn’t work. Sorry.👍👍👍

    • @USNBLUE
      @USNBLUE 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don Nebes sweet thank you

  • @msbrowngault
    @msbrowngault 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Weren't they hot & musty under all those layers of clothes? No AC, ice cold beverages - let's not get on penicillin 🙄
    What about the dudes just rustling in without bathing but wanting serviced🤢

  • @BiteMySwag223
    @BiteMySwag223 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    These are some boss women. I hope now with our standards changing we can appreciate their hustle

  • @DavidParedesMata
    @DavidParedesMata 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. Thanks you so much

  • @kathleenreyes4345
    @kathleenreyes4345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I did not know this! Very interesting!!