Western Yuma Arizona Cat House Brothel Token 2

TOKEN, a 1 1/2 inch round token. The token is brass with an antiqued finish and one side has "Swede's Saloon Yuma Ariz" and "Good for Screw Stogie Whiskey." in engraved lettering. The other side has "All Night $3 Check". Along the coastline of San Francisco in the late 19th century prostitution flourished, with thousands of women working in structures, known as "cow yards". These were U-shaped buildings, up to four stories high, that were partitioned into numerous cubicles that the women lived and operated out of. The Twinkling Star Corporation in the summer of 1899 erected the largest "cow yard" ever seen, called the Nymphia. It had 450 rooms, 150 of them occupied by so-called "nymphomaniacs."