Both Milton and Pensacola maintained "off limits" list of establishments throughout WWII. The legislative power to restrict military personnel in such a manner came from the "May Act." Passed in 1941, the plan was put into effect "to defend the armed and industrial forces from venereal disease." The Act enabled the Department of Justice to override any local authority or activity that they considered a threat to the safety of military or industrial workers. Another law called the "Lanham Act of 1941" empowered them quarantine carriers of venereal disease until they had been cured. Therefore, the "off-limits" lists was placed under the authority of Federal agents and military police to control vice activities around military installations. Their main target was any form of vice or immoral activities including lewdness or prostitution. The military's philosophy was a soldier or sailor could just as easily be removed from combat by VD as an enemy bomb or bullet! The following made the MILTON list for 1944; The Riverview Cafe, Highway 90 (two miles east of Ellyson Field) and the Imogene Theater, on Highway 90 in downtown Milton. The PENSACOLA list contained the; Buck's Cafe (North Alcaniz), Anchorage Club (Little Bayou), Tin Top (Gulf Beach Highway), Davis Cabins (West Cervantes), Twilight Inn (West Cervantes), Lampkins Lunch Room (West Garden), Anchor Bar (South Palafox), Rhythm Bar (South Palafox), Pensacola Bar & Hotel (South Palafox), Shamrock Bar (Alcaniz and Intendencia), Garrett's Place (North Davis), Jockey Club (North Palafox), and the Horseshoe Cirlce Dance Hall & Cabins North of (Lillian Highway).
Pensacola News Journal 8-6-1944
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