Cleaning Business Life
EP. 232 | Buried Behind Whiskey Row: Prescott’s Lost Chinatown and Double-Decker Brothel
This podcast is powered by Klean Freaks University.com — where real cleaners build real empires. From mop buckets to million-dollar systems, we teach you how to clean smarter, lead stronger, and scale faster. Behind Prescott’s famous Whiskey Row was another side of town—one respectable society preferred not to talk about. Along South Granite Street stood Prescott’s red-light district, its only known two-story brothel, and a thriving Chinese community whose labor helped keep the frontier town running. Then the Great Fire of 1900 swept through the district, destroying buildings and burying much of its history beneath the ground. In this special haunted-history episode of Cleaning Business Life, Shannon explores the women who lived and worked inside the Double-Decker Brothel, the children who may have called it home, and the remarkable artifacts archaeologists later recovered from its trash-filled privy—including Victorian pottery, beauty products, patent medicines, and part of a porcelain doll. She also shares the story of Prescott’s Chinese residents, the laundries and businesses they built despite open discrimination, and the community members who fought flying embers with wet blankets and brooms to save their Joss House during the fire. More than a century later, construction of the Granite Street parking garage uncovered what Prescott had nearly allowed to disappear. This is the story of what was buried behind Whiskey Row—and the people whose town depended upon them, even while pushing them to its margins. Apply for the scholarship here: https://kleanfreaksuniversity.com/scholarship/ Support the show Thanks for tuning in to Cleaning Business Life — the podcast for cleaning business owners who want to build a profitable, sustainable company without burning out . Hosted by Shannon Miller and Jamie Runco, each episode pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to start, grow, and scale a cleaning business — covering pricing, systems, leadership, boundaries, and the real conversations most people avoid. New episodes 2x weekly Resources, show notes, and programs: https://kleanfreaksuniversity.com Because in life — and in business — clean is just the beginning. — Shannon & Jamie
