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Word: gaslighters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Browne got 15 friends to invest $1,000 apiece in an expanded version of the Sundown, opened the Gaslight Club. He decorated it to resemble a fancy turn-of-the-century saloon in red velvet, covered the walls with paintings of nudes, supplied a ragtime piano player and free platters of cold cuts. The biggest attractions were beautiful waitresses in abbreviated versions of 1905 ball gowns. Mostly aspiring models and actresses, they earn up to $15,000 a year, are strictly supervised by Browne's pretty wife, Jean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Cash Under the Gaslight | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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