Gin joint

Rick Blaine: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

The heroin trade has also flourished in Ruili, along with all the ancillary businesses of bordertowns: casinos, gin joints, a glitzy bowling alley, beauty parlors and garish short-time hotels catering to bigger-spending debauchers.

The Tanager was founded on East Fourth Street in a former barbershop, then relocated in 1953 to 90 East 10th, a cheaper, narrow, four-story building upstairs from a gin joint.