# 1940's Canadian hookers. Did they make any $$$? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155 "2013-10-02T02:42:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/1 "2013-10-02T02:42:43Z")
Yikes. Talk about needing beer goggles. 😛 I’m sure they had great personalities. Theres not even one attractive lady in that list. > **[The faces of prostitution in 1940s Montreal](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2440245/Montreals-face-prostitution-past-pictures-The-working-girls-cashing-Canadas-Sin-City-WWII.html)** > > In the early 20th Century, Montreal was known as the sex tourism capital of North America. Now, a new set of images reveals the faces behind that seedy industry. > [@](#): > > Montreal was known as the sex tourism capital of North America during the years of Prohibition in the U.S. Now, a new set of archival images reveals the faces behind that booming industry. > > Recently unearthed mug shots from the Archives de la Ville de Montreal show the women who were arrested for prostitution and the madams who were handcuffed for keeping brothels - a common occurrence in the Canadian city then known as a place of debauchery. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/2 "2013-10-02T03:36:29Z")
I’ve seen COPS episodes of hookers in Las Vegas, for example, and given the meth addiction, alcoholism, coke addiction, etc. they’re not much better looking. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/3 "2013-10-02T03:46:11Z")
WHEW…My Mother was in Montreal during WWII. She is not in any of the pictures. And she was an attractive young lady at that time. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/4 "2013-10-02T03:52:14Z")
**Al Czervik** : Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/5 "2013-10-02T04:10:40Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Yikes. Talk about needing beer goggles. 😛 I’m sure they had great personalities. Theres not even one attractive lady in that list. I was all set to point out to you that standards of beauty were very different then, and someone from the 1940s would have the same attitude toward today’s streaked and permed hair . . . But then I looked at the pics, and I have to agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/6 "2013-10-02T04:32:40Z")
Lina Tony (second from the last) looks just a bit like [Ned Beatty](http://www.nndb.com/people/760/000023691/beatty_1.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/7 "2013-10-02T04:38:43Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > WHEW…My Mother was in Montreal during WWII. So was mine. Of course, she was an infant at the time. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/8 "2013-10-02T04:43:01Z")
The first one isn’t so bad looking. You gotta give some leeway, mugshots aren’t high end photography and they probably weren’t all that happy about the whole thing. But still. . . . ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/9 "2013-10-02T04:46:08Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I was all set to point out to you that standards of beauty were very different then, and someone from the 1940s would have the same attitude toward today’s streaked and permed hair . . . > > But then I looked at the pics, and I have to agree with you. Well to be fair, I suspect very few of their clients would be likened to Adonis either. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/10 "2013-10-02T05:05:48Z")
1940s Canadian prostitute eyebrows left a lot to be desired. They’re all horrible except the last one. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/11 "2013-10-02T07:29:48Z")
It looks like most of them have at least one glass eye. It’s an alcohol fueled industry, like tattoos. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/12 "2013-10-02T07:37:26Z")
Frankly, I doubt most of their clients were looking for just another pretty face. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/13 "2013-10-02T08:44:35Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Well to be fair, I suspect very few of their clients would be likened to Adonis either. 🙂 You get what you pay for. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/14 "2013-10-02T10:26:37Z")
I know it’s the Daily Fail, but according to the captions, most were arrested for running a brothel, not being a hooker themselves. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/15 "2013-10-02T10:57:22Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > 1940s Canadian prostitute eyebrows left a lot to be desired. They’re all horrible except the last one. It’s the “Edith Piaf” look. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/16 "2013-10-02T11:15:28Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > It’s an alcohol fueled industry, like tattoos. Legit tattoo artists will decline to ink anybody who has been drinking. They say it thins the blood, but I think it’s about liability. As for the hookers, I’m sure they looked a lot nicer in person. Spend a winter in the woods, then go to Montreal and you would likely be overwhelmed by their beauty. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/17 "2013-10-02T11:37:53Z")
Ah, they’re 1940s style death hookers. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/18 "2013-10-02T11:39:53Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Yikes. Talk about needing beer goggles. 😛 I’m sure they had great personalities. Theres not even one attractive lady in that list. The face of hooker is not particularly important to her clients. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/19 "2013-10-02T11:59:01Z")
Delicato Bizante Lucie appears to be wearing a sailor suit. Don’t say that she’s appealing to a fantasy – she’s a madame (as, has been pointed out, most of them seem to be) Actually, most of them look like Lunch Ladies. Maybe this is what 1940s Montreal lunch ladies did after the lunch period was over. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155/20 "2013-10-02T12:16:17Z")
No wonder curling got to be popular. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-canadian-hookers-did-they-make-any/670155.md?page=2)