Red light district

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:08 PM -0400 5/1/00, GSCole wrote:
>The original distinction for the red light, per se, is still not clear
>to me.  Searching at the MOA sites, I found only a few cites of 'red
>light' or 'redlight'.  Searching on 'red lantern', however, turned us
>quite a number of cites, including the uses of red lanterns:  at sea;
>with railroads; at the door of a school; and with other associations on
>land.  Along the way, there were also mentions of both white and blue
>lanterns, but I wasn't searching for those distinctions.
>
I'd LIKE to think the blue and white lanterns signal the location of
service providers who attended Yale, but I suspect that's a stretch...

larry