Western La Grange Texas Cat House Brothel Token

TOKEN, a 1 1/2 inch round token. The token is brass with an antiqued finish and one side has  "The Chicken Ranch La Grange, Tex." engraved on one side. The other side has "All Night $3 Check". There were two types of "bad girls" in the West. The "worst” types", according to the "proper” women, were the many painted ladies who made their living by offering paid sex in the numerous brothels, parlor houses, and cribs of the western towns. The second type of "bad girl” were the saloon, dance hall women, who contrary to some popular thinking, were generally not prostitutes -- this tended to occur only in the very shabbiest class of saloons. Though the "respectable” ladies considered the saloon girls "fallen”, most of the girls wouldn’t be caught dead associating with an actual prostitute.