Gertrude Lythgoe

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Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: Stories of her exploits on Rum Row in the early 1920s made... Read more

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Stories of her exploits on Rum Row in the early 1920s made Gertrude Lythgoe a tabloid darling. As books and article seri... Read more

During the early days of Prohibition in the 1920s, while most young women were focused on getting married and having a f... Read more