When the city of Los Angeles had outgrown its Courthouse at Spring and Main Street in the early 1890s, it built a magnificent new Romanesque Courthouse at Spring and Temple Streets. This left the old one available—but not for long. Pearl Morton was described as “L.A.’s bawdiest, most beloved madam.” In 1891, she lavishly renovated the place and reopened it as Pearl Morton’s Municipal Brothel, where men in city and county uniforms didn’t have to call ahead for a date, and a Dr. Bryson would stop by weekly to check Pearl’s girls for “occupational hazards.” Pearl never felt like she had to hide anything and used to ride around in an open carriage with some of her girls while Irishman in a green coat sat behind them blowing a trumpet. Hey, it pays to advertise!