dances that they sold. It was reported that drunken men frequently were lured into the performers' dressing rooms where they were robbed. But even more outrageous was their door-key racket. When being pursued by an amorous male customer, some of the waitresses suggested that the customer buy a key to their room so that they could have a romantic tryst after closing time. If the customer was puzzled why he should have to buy a key, the waitress often replied that she could not get away from the dance hall while it was open, and that she had a very jealous boyfriend who would not allow them to be seen leaving the dance hall together. The cost of a dancer's door key was between one and five dollars, and some of the more popular girls sold as many as a dozen keys a night. Needless to say, none of the customers could find a door which fit their key despite the fact that they could be seen wandering about in the early hours of the morning going from door to door. The police eventually cracked down on the Seattle, and stopped the door-key racket from continuing. Things got even more bizarre for the building when in 1908 that dance hall was sold to a new owner who renamed it The Dash. The new owners remodeled the interior, adding many private booths. Then they fired all the female-dancing employees and replaced them with men who wore women's clothing. The Call, a local newspaper, described the Dash as "one of the vilest dance halls ever maintained in San Francisco". The Dash was not very successful and due to political pressure later closed in the same year that it was opened. Demise An extreme shift in political policy came about in 1911 when a new mayor and reformer, James Rolph, was elected to the first of ten terms. The political tides had reversed, and the reform movement was gaining great momentum. Rolph and his reformist city supervisors along with William Randolf Hearst's newspaper, the Examiner, sought to shut the district and Terrific Street down. Oddly enough, it was a popular dance called the Texas Tommy that was one of the early steps in disabling the district. The name "Texas Tommy" itself was a concern, because the term 'Tommy' was said to be synonymous with prostitute. When it was announced that the infamous dance