Throwback Tulsa: Madam of longtime Tulsa brothel was unrepentant to the end

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From 1936 until 1979, Pauline Lambert operated the May Rooms, Tulsa’s most enduring house of ill repute.

Lambert's domain occupied a catacomb of second-story rooms in the seedy buildings of East First Street between Detroit and Elgin avenues in downtown Tulsa.

Today, the space is adjacent to El Guapo’s Mexican restaurant and has recently been used as an artist’s studio.

“She probably has saved more marriages than any minister in Tulsa,” said Frances Leach, a wealthy widow and former Tulsan who arranged to pay for legal representation when Lambert was facing jail in 1978.

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