Pauline Tabor to be featured during Duncan Hines Days 2024

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A unique opportunity to experience the stories of one of Bowling Green’s most fascinating businesses is being added to this year’s Duncan Hines Days.

Pauline Tabor was known as the Madam of Clay Street, running a brothel there for nearly 25 years.

Normally, Unseen BG puts on a tour inspired by the legend surrounding her in the fall season.

But this year, they’re adding a summer tour coinciding with a showing of a Dolly Parton movie inspired by her stories.

“It’s crazy how they all kind of tie together, and a little bit of it is lore and legend in a stretch, but the Pauline story is very interesting. She came from a very poor background. She was a very smart businesswoman…very intelligent,” Telia Butler, downtown development coordinator with the City of Bowling Green, says.

Tickets went on sale Thursday morning for the tour, but Butler says they sold out within four minutes.

The movie based around Tabor’s stories starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds will be shown at the Capitol for free on June 5 at 6:30 p.m.