and then mayor harmon peery came back into office at the beginning of 1948. now, there's no evidence for this but i think she thought, now that harmon peery is back in office, maybe a bordello would stand a chance. so, she decided to start importing women in there as prostitutes. the rose room's first blazed in the public consciousness on may 1, 1948. the wieber wildlife foundation was holding its annual party in the livestock coliseum, and three strippers from the rose rooms were hired as the grand final heat. they were passing round matchbooks riff the rose room's logo on them, and the strippers named are written in ink on the matchbooks. well, the crowd became so unruly they started throwing bottles on the stage and police rushed to the coliseum some arrested not the bottle-throwers but the strippers. this was the first time the public ever heard of the rose room. and within a few days after that they raided the rose room and arrested rose davey not for prostitution but for distribution of narcotics. we're standing in front of a couple of building. this on