creation of Storyville did not involve constructing new buildings or altering the city landscape in any way. What was new was that, within the district, prostitution was now allowed. The de facto legalization of this previously illegal practice inevitably gave rise to new levels of permissiveness in the area. Gambling parlors and drug dens became commonplace, and the district’s honky-tonks and saloons became the central breeding ground for a new class of criminal hustler in the city.
