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The Barbary Coast, San Francisco's den of thieves
1849
Pacific Avenue, San Francisco
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Nine blocks of dance halls, deadfalls and crimping dens where sailors were drugged and sold to outbound ships, the practice called shanghaiing. Shut down by state law in 1917 after seventy years.
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