minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) (03/01/84)
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!minowlincoln@eosp1.UUCP (Dick Lincoln) (03/01/84)
>> 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. If by this McLuhan was implying a causal relationship between the telephone and the soliciting methods of prostitutes, the telephone must have missed the NYC Times Square area altogether (particular a few years ago).