{"product_id":"lower-georgia-street-brendan-riley-9781634990240","title":"Lower Georgia Street: California's Forgotten Barbary Coast","description":"It was a sailor's dream: more than 100 bars, casinos and whorehouses, just a short boat ride across the Napa River that separated the sprawling Mare Island Naval Shipyard from Vallejo, California.\u003cbr\u003eWhy bother to head for San Francisco, about 25 miles to the south, when you could raise hell in Vallejo's Lower Georgia Street district?\u003cbr\u003eThis was the city's original business zone, but over time the grocery stores, clothing shops and offices for doctors and lawyers were replaced by brightly lit joints that appealed to the sailors.\u003cbr\u003eEvery time the United States got involved in wars, there were dramatic expansions in shipyard construction and repair. That meant big business for Lower Georgia Street as sailors on liberty poured into town.\u003cbr\u003eTop Navy brass made repeated demands on the city to clean up the problems. The district would improve, but only temporarily. In Vallejo, nothing before or since was as wild as the Lower Georgia district during World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brendan Riley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1634990242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781634990240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e America Through Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Brendan Riley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453836374271,"sku":"9781634990240","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed8f93f3-4257-4e2c-aa3f-d03d49eeaa48.jpg?v=1777302571","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lower-georgia-street-brendan-riley-9781634990240","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}