Selling Sex in the Silver Valley by Dr. Heather Branstetter

Author:Dr. Heather Branstetter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2017-10-09T04:00:00+00:00

“Kitty,” SCSO File 705

Many women had pimps in other towns. This was sometimes noted in their records explicitly, as was the case for a woman who called herself Kitty. She was born in Chewelah, Washington, in 1919 and worked in Wallace for four months during the summer of 1956. The rap sheet notes that Kitty was first picked up by the police in Spokane, Washington, in 1940 and fined twenty-five dollars for “city vag” (code for vagrancy, used by many cities both to indicate homelessness and prosecute street prostitution). Eight months later, she is again charged with vagrancy in Grand Coulee, Washington, when she was told to leave town. There was huge demand for sex work there during this time, when it was essentially a boomtown as men flocked there to work on the hydroelectric dam, according to a visitor’s guide:

In the Grand Coulee, life changed dramatically and quickly once work on the dam began in 1933. Not only did the undertaking of this massive project change forever the shape of the river, but overnight it created towns where nothing but sagebrush, sand and rocks had previously existed. Thousands came to the Grand Coulee looking for work in the midst of the Depression. They worked around the clock to finish the dam by 1942.250

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