Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!minow From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Telephones and red-light districts Message-ID: <394@decvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 19:01:12 EST Article-I.D.: decvax.394 Posted: Wed Feb 29 19:01:12 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 22:27:26 EST References: <3393@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: DEC UNIX Engineering Group Lines: 18 Stephen Perlegut quotes Marshall McLuhan as saying: No more unexpected social result of the telephone has been observed than its elimination of the red-light district and its creation of the call girl. In this regard, it is interesting to note that the lab that Bell used to perfect the telephone (where he called Dr. Watson) was located in Scolly Square, then Boston's red-light district. What was Scolly Square is now "Government Center" -- with city and federal offices. Martin Minow decvax!minow