Tijuana Adult Entertainment: Unforgettable: A Walk on the Stingaree Side, Part 5
Was it a sign? Throughout 1912, San Diego fumed in a moral frenzy. From February to the fall, police and 400 vigilantes had battled Free Speech demonstrators in the Stingaree. On November 10, police raided the district: 138 prostitutes, at least half under age 17, received walking papers. To those for whom purging San Diego — of immorality and even dissent — had become a crusade, the crackling shacks at Eighth symbolized divine approval of anti-vice rectitude.
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3. Elizabeth McPhail: “As Chief [Keno] Wilson had predicted, the [prostitutes] who remained moved to other parts of town, [becoming] “hostesses” in Mission Hills, and operating “a string of houses along El Cajon Boulevard, then an unpaved stretch leading to La Mesa.”
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McCanna, Jr., Clare V., “Prostitutes, Progressives, and Police: The Viability of Vice in San Diego, 1900–1930,” Journal of San Diego History, vol. 35, number 1, Winter 1989.