Heck. Sally Struther's ran the most expensive bordello in SF when people llke Humphrey Bogart went there, and then afterwards, she became the long-time Mayor of Sausalito across the GG Bridge. The most famous brothel near here, in Port Costa, has been left as-is architecturally, but is now a gourmet restaurant replete with vintage photos of its prior years. All the old doors and widows, warped n' all, somewhat weathered bare like driftwood, are still there. I have photographed that entrance a number of times, including just a few weeks ago.
If you want Old West cowboy mentality, still whorehouses n' all, that would be Ely NV. But the new McDonald's etc outskirts have their own curiosities, like the gas station that gives you a discount in their adjacent weed shop with a fill-up. It had an unusual name I might not remember quite correctly, maybe, Pot & Pump. Not quite as quite as questionable as a local oil-change facility called Lube & Latte. I wonder what they are actually serving in those hot cups.
But being from a logging mill town, or at least within a 3-mile walk from it, I know that story. The last remaining section of flume is across a rock face up on the Beasore Mdws Rd. Back in the day before trucks, they'd place a dugout in that flume, take a hair-raising ride all tge way down to Fresno in it for sake of a wild night of drinking etc. Then it took the rest of the weekend, two full days, to ride horseback back uphill to the logging camp. Allegedly quite a few people died from those flume rides, as well as those whose jobs was to clear any logjams. I once had a big collection of rusty antique hooks and pikes etc used by them, plus a number of long crosscut saws, but gave them to a nephew because the local museum was winding down for lack of funds. Not far from there is the thickest tree in the world, the only remaining mature Giant Sequoia in that grove that wasn't cut down, simply a long enough saw didn't exist. Kinda odd to photograph that monster with an 8x10 all by itself, with everything around it being stick forest, or else titanic Sequoia logs they never figured out how to move.