#TBT: Mug Shots of San Francisco Bad Girls, 1880s-1950s

#TBT: Mug Shots of San Francisco Bad Girls, 1880s-1950s

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We've learned about the over-the-top days of the Barbary Coast, and the ruffians and outlaws that made the west really wild. We know about the bootleggers, the scoundrels, the outsiders. But, as with most of history, women were also a part of this, yet have often been written out of it. Meet the misbehavin' girls of the 1880s to the 1950s, who got into some trouble, and left behind a mugshot as evidence.


1938

Connie Collins, was arrested on May 17, 1938 for "vagrancy." She was one of the B-Girls of the Tenderloin. B-Girls, also known as "drink hustlers," or "percentage girls," would convince men to buy overpriced drinks at bars. Some would also be prostitutes; after arrest, they were quarantined and given mandatory testing for diseases.

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