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Red light districts, a center of sin, sexual vice, and debauchery, are where many go to unwind, escape reality, and indulge in their greatest pleasures.

How do changing laws impact the day-to-day lives of sex workers? And where is the line drawn between work and trafficking?

A brothel-owner named Emelia Garza was arrested in San Antonio for not paying licensing fees. She challenged the city, and won — forcing officials to alter their charter and rewrite the bawdy house ordinance. Soon after she was deemed insane and put in jail. Thanks to digitized records, we now know how her story ended.

A brothel-owner named Emelia Garza was arrested in San Antonio for not paying licensing fees. She challenged the city, and won — forcing officials to alter their charter and rewrite the bawdy house ordinance. Soon after she was deemed insane and put in jail. Thanks to digitized records, we now know how her story ended.

San Antonio had one of the busiest red-light districts in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th Century. Historians now believe that district was even bigger than they realized.

San Antonio was once home to one of the busiest red-light districts in the country. But exactly how big was the city’s red-light district? And how did it get that way? That’s what we try to find out in Episode 1 of "Running Red-Lights."

‘Ghostly Tales of San Antonio’ visits haunted sites around the Alamo City

How a 20-year-old balances school and his successful handmade leather business

FacebookTwitterEmail Boys Town took over the property in 1990 until it was purchased in 2020 by DPMiller Investments LLC in April 2020.Google Maps A member of the Miller family is firing up plans for a new 8-story residential tower in downtown San Antonio. Douglas Miller, part of the Bill Miller Bar-B-Q legacy, has submitted a proposal for 503 Urban Loop, a property he acquired in 2020 near UTSAs downtown campus. The San Antonio Business Journal was the first to report the news.  According to ...

Whiskey rectifier held vital job in San Antonios distilling industry in early 20th century FacebookTwitterEmail Gilbert Ryan O’Shaughnessy celebrates with family at his home at 220 Madison St. in the early 1900s. Gilbert Ryan - not to be confused with his son Gilbert, a musician who played with Jimmie’s Joys, the house band of the St. Anthony Hotel roof garden in the 1920s - spent close to three decades in the spirits trade, on the wholesale and retail sides and in manufacturing for his wor...