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- <text id=91TT1078>
- <title>
- May 20, 1991: American Notes:Ideas
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 20, 1991 Five Who Could Be Vice President
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- IDEAS
- Little House On the Desert
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The idea was too wild--even for the Wild West. A
- psychologist in Nevada's state prison system wanted to build a
- theme park that would represent an 1880s mining camp. As Bill
- Mace Knapp envisioned it, the place would be old-timey, with a
- general store, saloon, gold mine and...oh, yes, a brothel.
- </p>
- <p> Prostitution is legal in some Nevada counties, and Knapp
- figured he could help the state's economy by bringing it into
- the mainstream. His ladies of the evening would look more like
- Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke than street-hardened hookers. To
- attract investors, he was offering sex coupons, promises of
- "three girls for the price of one" and "VIP" cards good for a
- week of unlimited visits. The project was put on hold after
- prison officials fired him under a policy forbidding employees
- to hold second jobs in certain establishments. Governor Bob
- Miller also objected to the bordello, which would have been only
- 10 miles from the state capital. Said Knapp: "The fact that the
- Governor is opposed would make me pretty foolish to try it in
- this area."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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