“Ogden was a railroad town. Everything that went with a railroad town in the 1870s and ‘80s ended up in Ogden — that included alcohol, women, gambling. It became that central location because of the Union Station.” 1/3
The building where Alleged sits used to be The Rose Room, a brothel run by one of the most notorious madams of the time — Rose Davey. The name Alleged was inspired by the way people talk about what happened there.The first floor, Langsdon said, used to be a soda parlor during Prohibition — in a town where the national ban on alcohol often was felt more in the breach than the observance. Now, the first floor is Moxie, a dance floor and bar open on Friday and Saturday nights.
“It’s a story that nobody else can duplicate,” Allen said. “It seems like everywhere else in America, it’s like, you drive five freeway exits, and it’s the exact same stores or restaurants all over and over and over again. But this is something that’s unique to us.” “Electric Alley basically stretched all the way down,” Hartman said. “It was a whole city block of just six-foot-by-six-foot, 10-foot-by-10-foot brothel rooms.” It was owned by another madam, Belle London.
Part of the plan was to make 25th Street a slow street, though the streets running perpendicular to it allow faster traffic.
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