Shockoe and Turkey Town (1910)
In the November issue of Richmond Magazine, Karry Kollatz excerpts from his own (now available!) Richmond in Ragtime and takes a look at the immigrant enclave of Turkey Town and the red-light district that was Shockoe: Along East Main Street into Shocke is a warren of wretched slums. Past 17th Street are busy saloons. Neglected, barefooted […]
In the November issue of Richmond Magazine, Karry Kollatz excerpts from his own (now available!) Richmond in Ragtime and takes a look at the immigrant enclave of Turkey Town and the red-light district that was Shockoe:
Along East Main Street into Shocke is a warren of wretched slums. Past 17th Street are busy saloons. Neglected, barefooted urchins run the streets, where starvation and nakedness color their formative experiences. Here in the city’s lower depths are clusters of overcrowded, dilapidated hovels.
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