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Article: FORGET THE FAIRY TALES, HERE'S THE DIRT ON L.A. HISTORY.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- June 24, 1997
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Chappaquiddick had its Kennedy, Gennifer Flowers had her Clinton, and Los Angeles has its share of scandals, too, Leonard and Dale Pitt discovered in their research.
``After all, history is people,'' Leonard noted. ``And people sometimes get themselves in trouble.''
Long before Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss made headlines, prostitution ran rampant in Los Angeles - denounced by reformers ranging from the mission fathers in the late 1700s to the Women's Christian Temperance Union in the early 1900s. In 1897, Mayor Meredith P. Snyder was asked to wipe out a shantytown filled with hookers; he refused, saying it would hurt the local oil industry whose workers ...