The “fast” and disreputable district in a city.
1909. The local “tenderloin” [in Pittsburg] has ceased to be the crying nuisance it once was…. There are no more places where carousal holds sway unchecked.—N.Y. Evening Post, Jan. 18.
1910. “I guess I’ll have to go back with you,” said the murderer. “I wanted to see the old Tenderloin once more, and should have gone West yesterday; but its all up with me now.”—Id., March 17.
1910. [One newspaper suggested] that, inasmuch as Nevada seemed perfectly willing to take care of prizefights and divorces, it should be set aside as a sort of national “Tenderloin,” in which all the vices which every other State prohibited might be freely allowed, in segregation.—Id., Oct. 13.
