Honky-Tonk Girl (2011)
“Johnny walked out of the joint and turned right, continuing on down the street at a steady pace. Honky-Tonk Street huddled around him warmly with its noise, its laughter and its smells.
It was a street on the wrong side of the tracks, situated between the Negro and Mexican sections and the docks.
Some of the bars ran girlie shows. Pictures of the entertainers looking coy in G-string costumes were plastered boldly out in front of the places. Music floated out from hot, smoky, crowded roo...ms.
He passed a tattoo shop and a photographer’s studio. Every place on the street would be wide open and doing a brisk business until four in the morning.
A strange potpourri of humanity drifted along the sidewalks of the narrow, dirty street. There were sailors and pasty-faced kids dressed in peg leg trousers, hopped up on marijuana, florid-faced businessmen, beggars, hot-dog vendors. And every kind of woman in the books—from sallow-faced chippies to giggling old maid schoolteachers slumming and hoping, with titillating fear, that they’d be picked up.MoreLess
It was a street on the wrong side of the tracks, situated between the Negro and Mexican sections and the docks.
Some of the bars ran girlie shows. Pictures of the entertainers looking coy in G-string costumes were plastered boldly out in front of the places. Music floated out from hot, smoky, crowded roo...ms.
He passed a tattoo shop and a photographer’s studio. Every place on the street would be wide open and doing a brisk business until four in the morning.
A strange potpourri of humanity drifted along the sidewalks of the narrow, dirty street. There were sailors and pasty-faced kids dressed in peg leg trousers, hopped up on marijuana, florid-faced businessmen, beggars, hot-dog vendors. And every kind of woman in the books—from sallow-faced chippies to giggling old maid schoolteachers slumming and hoping, with titillating fear, that they’d be picked up.MoreLess
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