99% Invisible
559- The Six-Week Cure
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:34:58
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Synopsis
In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada -- not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get out of bad marries. The city became known as the "Divorce Capital of the World." For much of modern history, it has been relatively easy to get married, and extremely difficult to get divorced -- and for a time, this was true in the New World as well. But Reno provided the cure: The Six-Week Cure.