There are also mysterious places in St. Louis. Like this “rooms for adult men only” building. It sounds very Victorian. “Rooms for respectable gentlemen who are out all day.”
Does anybody know what this place is about?
8 responses to “Rooms for Men”
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I’ve seen ads for apartments like that in Victoria, which are based on gender, like “female international students preferred”, and, most bizarrely, one that said “Christian female preferred”.
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Not sure if it’s the case here, but most of the ads I’ve seen like that were for rooms in SROs that are basically a small step up from homelessness.
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That’s the feeling I had, too.
I now wonder if there are places like these for women.
There is a lot of poverty in this city and it very visibly runs along the racial lines.
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Isn’t it just an old-fashioned rooming-house? A 19th century, early 20th century thing … I saw the picture and thought gosh, St. Louis is so old-timey, do they still have those, etc. My grandmother and various family members of that era have lived in these, on temporary jobs and so on. Latin America is full of them, for students and factory workers, for instance. They can be more and less fancy. If you look up “casas de huéspedes” on Wikipedia you get links to a couple of mid 19th century guidebooks, discussing informal ones in Madrid in the era, very amusing.
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Is this serious?
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Welcome to my “only for chubby black women” house! 😉
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