THanks for the info!
a great song...
but i am probably too old to visit the place/
alas!
Might make sense. The writer speculates that if it were outside the city, it likely catered to an upscale crowd.
But not necessarily. It might well have catered to Hoosiers and others who loaded boats upstream and brought their boats down the Mississippi, returning up via the Natchez Trace.
They would have been paid for their goods in New Orleans and pockets full of money, started back north. A house of ill repute might well have done good business as the first stop on the way back.
So, it’s way out in the middle of nowhere where no one is likely to bother the clientele. All hush, hush for the upper crust. Nooners for a dollar. Rooms for private parties. All sorts of, cough, refreshments. The ruin of many a good boy?
Bet they served pizza.