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...personally don't interfere with it where it exists." One of the "wheres" is Lida Junction on Highway 95, about midway between Reno and Las Vegas. Lida Junction cannot be found on most road maps; it consists of an airstrip and a house trailer with a sign reading "Cottontail Ranch." It is, in fact, a community with only one visible means of support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners And Morals: Everything's Up to Date In Lida Junction | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...fellas, how about a drink?" beams the trailer's "landlady," Beverly Richards, as a group of strangers walk in. While she pours the liquor, four scantily clad girls appear. "Make a selection, fellas," booms Beverly. Cottontail Ranch is simply one of the newer twists in the oldest profession: a fly-in brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners And Morals: Everything's Up to Date In Lida Junction | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...ranch" even has air service. Owned by Rick Blakemore, an unpaid deputy sheriff of Nye County, Mustang Air Service operates two Cessna 206s on the run between Las Vegas and Tonopah, making seven stops en route at bordellos like Cottontail Ranch. In addition to transporting Johns named Smith, "I fly the girls to and from the houses and take the doctor and the county health officer on regular Saturday inspection tours," says Blakemore. He performs other official functions, like fingerprinting the prostitutes in each brothel for the sheriff's office files. "This is a dirty, rotten business," he cheerfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners And Morals: Everything's Up to Date In Lida Junction | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...been Hanratty's boyhood hero. Ahead of every good passer, of course, there is a good receiver, and the Irish have one of those too: End Jim Seymour, 19, another sophomore, who stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs 205 Ibs., runs like a deer and cuts like a cottontail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another One for the Irish | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

...Double Curve Dan. The team is in a losing streak-disaster after disaster. Then, all of a sudden, comes that magical day when everyone has springs in his legs and all the bats are made of hoki-moki wood, and the ball sprouts long ears and a cottontail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Magical Day | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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