"Gunner Asch" wrote

I heard that it was because they couldn't get it zoned as a zoo. From the
start, like many a seaside retreat, built without much forethought, an
accident waiting to happen. Over history, countless little and bigger
communities wiped out after being built in places they had no business
being
built in.

Steve

New Orleans comes to mind as well..in that catagory.

New Orleans started as a hideaway for Jean Lafitte. Then it became port of
call for every grifter, octoroon whore, card hustler, and associated person.
It was built on debauchery, and went out, ironically, in the same way.

Fascinating history of a city. As good as it got, and as rotten as anywhere
could be.

Storyville, animal sex shows, Bourbon Street, it goes from there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyville

Steve