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NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts) Thu Feb 5, 2015, 10:40 PM Feb 2015

Throwback Tulsa: Madam of longtime Tulsa brothel was unrepentant to the end

From 1936 until 1979, Pauline Lambert operated the May Rooms, Tulsa’s most enduring house of ill repute.

Lambert's domain occupied a catacomb of second-story rooms in the seedy buildings of East First Street between Detroit and Elgin avenues in downtown Tulsa.

Today, the space is adjacent to El Guapo’s Mexican restaurant and has recently been used as an artist’s studio.

“She probably has saved more marriages than any minister in Tulsa,” said Frances Leach, a wealthy widow and former Tulsan who arranged to pay for legal representation when Lambert was facing jail in 1978.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/news/throwbacktulsa/throwback-tulsa-madam-of-longtime-tulsa-brothel-was-unrepentant-to/article_f2aa1d98-4c7e-52f1-9e0f-d30d6b0d42ee.html

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Throwback Tulsa: Madam of longtime Tulsa brothel was unrepentant to the end (Original Post) NaturalHigh Feb 2015 OP

Excellent article! Runningdawg Feb 2015 #1

An elevator operator? NaturalHigh Feb 2015 #2

Runningdawg

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1. Excellent article!

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Thu Feb 5, 2015, 11:01 PM

Feb 2015

(politics aside) I love Tulsa!
When I was a child a great aunt worked downtown as an elevator operator. We spent some great Saturday afternoons downtown trying on hats at Frougs dept store and having lunch at Nelsons or the Denver Grill.
When we both got older she started spilling tales of her mis-spent young adulthood. WOW The things she saw, the people she knew!

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)

2. An elevator operator?

Reply to Runningdawg (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 5, 2015, 11:19 PM

Feb 2015

Dang - you really have seen some history there. You should talk with some authors. I'm sure they would love to hear some of your aunt's stories.

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