Though local officials are not likely to admit it, one of the last openly operated brothels in San Bernardino County was the Orange Hotel in Ontario on Holt Avenue, a block east of Euclid Avenue. The once-stately structure had declined into a house of ill-fame by the 1950s, and continued to offer libidinous delight to its patrons well into the 1970s, just a stone’s throw from City Hall and the police station. The pillars of the community winked at and sometimes personally participated in the goings-on inside.