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euphemism to mask the true nature of the business. Levy also owned the Silver Dollar Bar downstairs, and told her extended family in New York state that she was merely a bar owner. Baker took over the brothel business about 1955 from Levy, for whom
Dorothy apparently had worked. Like Levy, she kept her business discreet, listing it in the phone book as "Dorothy's Rooms," though anyone inquiring about renting living space there was graciously turned away. Next door to Dorothy's was the Yat Son Chinese restaurant, where Baker often stopped for coffee and commiserated with the owner about how hard it was to find good "help." She did not drive and always took taxis, often tipping children generously for flagging down a cab.
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residence. Most of the remaining upstairs rooms have been converted to office space, but one room has been kept precisely as it was at the time of the police raid in 1973; her bathroom—which has an unusual black-and turquoise green decor, cutout starbursts in the dropped ceiling, and an oversized bathtub. There are numerous reports that the building is haunted.
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truck. Baker had an older sister, Margaret, who had a son and daughter, for whom
Dorothy paid their college tuition. She also had a brother. While Margaret was a devout woman who considered becoming a nun, she was close to Dorothy in spite of their different life choices and would bring her family
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because of all the good Baker had done in the community. Some local women were even upset, viewing the brothel as an outlet for behavior that might otherwise be on the streets. Dowling was denounced as having the "asinine morality of a pipsqueak." When Baker died shortly after, any legal case became
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grant to refurbish the building for "retail purposes." Mayor Steven Keim deflected criticism from himself, claiming he was out of town when the decision on the urban renewal grant was made. Not long after, two undercover agents investigated the business, reporting that they had paid a dollar for an
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in the late 1800s, most brothels in Helena's red light district were shut down following World War I. The prostitution business then moved downtown, with a madam named Pearl
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Baker died on Monday morning, May 14, 1973, less than a month after a police raid shut down her brothel, and 10 hours after being admitted to a hospital in Great Falls with an acute illness. She had diabetes and also was sick with the flu at the time of the raid, but her actual cause of death was
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Dorothy had one known child, a girl, with a client of her establishment. For reasons unknown, Dorothy abandoned the girl at a post office when she was three. The girl knew the identity of her mother, and maintained a distant relationship throughout her life, even introducing her children briefly.
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store, and over the years had business tenants that included bars, a
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Dorothy's remained in business until the brothel was raided on April 17, 1973 on the orders of the County
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Today, the main floor is occupied by two businesses, a bar and restaurant known as the "Windbag Saloon and Grill", and the adjacent "Ghost Art
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yearbook in 1933, and became known as "Big
Dorothy" during her working years. Her nickname most likely was due to her weight, which was estimated at 240 pounds (110 kg). Speculation is that she adopted Josephine as her middle name in honor of one of Helena's best-known madams of the late
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Baker left her brother and sister an estate worth $ 60,000. An auction of Baker's belongings was held on
September 28, 1973. While Baker's heirs had to sell the building because the urban renewal construction downtown had blocked the ground floor entrance, forcing out a retail tenant, the bar
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alcoholic drink and paid $ 20 for a woman who disrobed in their presence, deemed sufficient evidence for a district judge to authorize a writ of injunction that permitted the police raid and forcible closing of the business.
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482:. Helena, MT: Farcountry Press. pp. 310–315.
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868:Fort Laramie Three-Mile Hog Ranch
739:Prostitution in the United States
329:"Cascade County, Montana Records"
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613:Solberg, Jessica (Spring 2011).
534:. Associated Press. May 15, 1973
478:. In Patterson, Caroline (ed.).
363:. National Editorial Association
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670:Tiede, Tom (May 14, 1973).
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