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(More customer reviews)This book includes a fascinating look at Newport's sordid history and includes vintage photographs of many of the former clubs and casinos. The accompanying captions relate interesting tidbits about the people and places that made Newport the Sin City of the south.
It begins in the Prohibition era and details the city's decline throughout the years. It also shows how the citizens fought to reclaim their city and how they helped transform it into a thriving, bustling, hot bed of development that has become the envy of the region.
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Located in Northern Kentucky, Newport is a small, historic river town bustling with business in a respectful and developing community. While it is now known for its charm, Newport once had a dark and sinister past known as its Â"Sin City years.Â" Newport earned its reputation for vice, crime, political corruption, bootlegging, casinos, brothels, and bookie joints early in the cityÂ's history. During the Civil War, soldiers stationed at the Newport Barracks were offered entertainment from various saloons and bordellos located in the city. At the turn of the 20th century, John Thompson, a Newport native, invented the Thompson Machine Gun. The Â"tommy gunÂ" was made infamous by gangsters during Prohibition. Citizens of Newport, fed up with the cityÂ's sordid reputation, eventually banded together to drive out the vice and reclaim their city. After a long struggle, Newport is now a pleasant and enchanting community.
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