To be serious for a moment (and I have enjoyed the humor) most of the hookers/whores/prostitutes you see walking on Central Ave. are drug addicts (opiates, crack, you name it). They simply wouldn't/couldn't/don't have the disipline needed to work in a brothel. Even if all they did was earn just enough to keep themseles in dope. It wouldn't work.
Now that's not to say that a professionally run brothel wouldn't be sucessful in Happy Hollow - just not with them.

Take Care, Be Good and don't play in the street!

SteveMule

Shouldn't leave out the top floor of the old L&N Hotel from this conversation.

that whore house was once a motel for employees of Hurbert and Hurbert trucking company untill Rose bought it and turned it into whore house, the theater was named center, the white store was owned by the McDonald family, 1201 was Sharps grocery store, barber shop with a pool room named porkys on top floor owned by D.O. Sharp our past regester of deeds on both corners were drug stores south of Anderson ave was western auto across from it was a five and dime next to it was Cas Walker super market, on the corner of Baxter was Pinky barber shop and across from the Holy Ghost Church was Sears, there was five bars and a bootlegger on every corner. not many ladies walked the streets in the old days. just a lot of drunks.

Less than 1 mile from where I grew up. And I thought it was a big deal having Cas just down the road.

BTW Hazel had no children so no she did not go live with her "daughter" after she retired from her business.

"...I get a kick of how Knoxville also seems to have a good toleration of stuff just outside the law."

For a whole lot more on this theme, don't miss any opportunity to hear UT prof Bruce Wheeler's plethora of local stories. He's gotta million of 'em!

From UT's website, Wheeler's more scholarly works include:

"A recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Fellowship at the University of Virginia, Dr. Wheeler is the author of Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South (second edition, 2005); TVA and the Tellico Dam, 1936-1979: A Bureaucratic Crisis in Post-Industrial America (with Michael J. McDonald, 1986, revised 2005); Discovering the American Past (2 volumes, with Susan D. Becker, 1986, sixth edition 2007); Discovering the Western Past (2 volumes, with Merry Wiesner, Frank Doeninger, Kenneth Curtis, 1997, second edition 2002); as well as dozens of additional textbooks, anthologies, monographs, scholarly articles, and reviews. Among other projects, Dr. Wheeler is currently writing a history of the University of Tennessee."

(link...)

(This post only tangentially related to whorehouses.)