A rare look at Ashley Street's bolita big house

A rare 1936 photograph of the bolita 'big house' on LaVilla's West Ashley Street. - Charlie Ed Craddock’s Hotel Eggmont building at Ashley & Jefferson streets, was considered to be the home of the bolita big house in 1936. | Ritz Theatre & Museum Bolita (Spanish for Little Ball), was a type of illegal lottery gambling popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

A rare look at Ashley Street's bolita big house
A rare 1936 photograph of the bolita 'big house' on LaVilla's West Ashley Street. - Charlie Ed Craddock’s Hotel Eggmont building at Ashley & Jefferson streets, was considered to be the home of the bolita big house in 1936. | Ritz Theatre & Museum Bolita (Spanish for Little Ball), was a type of illegal lottery gambling popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...