Family friendly changes for 44th Annual Madam Lou Bunch Day
By David Josselyn
On Saturday, June 16, 2018, Central City hosted the 44th Annual Lou Bunch Day. This day honors the contribution of the madams, girls, and gentlemen callers, that helped drive the City’s prosperity and sordid history. The last madam to rule the roost on Pine Street was Lou Bunch whose name they adopted to name the event. The highlight of the day features a time trial race down and up Main Street in a large brass bed. The town’s old timers tell me they used to race this bed around the block, but changing times have whittled down the race to half of Main Street. The festival is broken into three parts; a parade of bed racers and bed race, a street dance, and a costume contest. In between, a live band entertains, street venders cash-in, the Wild Bunch shoots each other dead a few times, and sporting house girls entertain.
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