Oasis Bordello Museum in Wallace, Idaho
This file appears in: Working Women of the Silver Valley
On a visit to Wallace, be sure to check out the Oasis Bordello Museum, one of the longest running Bordellos in the United States. While downstairs contains a gift shop and has several displays, upstairs features rooms as left by the bordello owners in 1988.
Image courtesy of Amy Selanders
This file appears in: Working Women of the Silver Valley
Working Women of the Silver Valley
Not all the wealth of Wallace came from the mines. Some came from bedrooms of the working women of the brothels like the Oasis or the Bi-Metallic. As the miners extracted the ore from the ground, the second wave of workers arrived to mine the wages…