Documents Tagged ‘LeRoy “Buck” Pryor’
Prostitution Case Fines Total $700
Archive Entry Date: 3/5/1968
In the year before his death, Buck was still getting arrested in vice squad raids
Vice Raid Nets Man, 56, Woman
Archive Entry Date: 11/15/1967
Buck arrested for 3rd time in as many years for running a brothel
R. Pryor Launched in Movies
Archive Entry Date: 9/9/1967
On the occasion of Richard's first film role, the Peoria Journal Star joined a conversation with his father
5 of 10 Vice Raid Counts Dismissed
Archive Entry Date: 11/10/1965
Buck avoided jail time by evading police during a raid
Prostitution Counts Name 5 Defendants
Archive Entry Date: 9/10/1965
When police raided the brothel of Richard's father and stepmother, Buck ran and Ann stayed
Club LaVon Destroyed; Speed Points to Arson
Archive Entry Date: 11/23/1959
The Club Lavon and Hotel Avion, once part of Peoria's vice circuit, were bombed and burned
Buck and Ann Pryor in Aiken Alley
Archive Entry Date: 4/3/1951
Richard's father and stepmother relaxing on Aiken Alley
Ann and Buck Drinking With Friends
Archive Entry Date: 1950s
Richard's father and stepmother, on the town with some sharp-dressed friends
Gertrude Pryor v. LeRoy Pryor
Archive Entry Date: 1/1946
The divorce papers of Richard Pryor's parents
LeRoy Pryor Indicted by Grand Jury
Archive Entry Date: 3/1945
A Peoria grand jury indicted LeRoy Pryor for robbing a black soldier
Ellis Sergeant Slugged, Robbed
Archive Entry Date: 2/13/1945
A black sergeant, flush with cash, was robbed on N. Washington Street — and Richard's father seems to have been the culprit
The Pryor Family at the Famous Door
Archive Entry Date: c. 1945
The Pryor family diversified its operations, becoming proud owners of a tavern in the mid-40s
LeRoy Pryor Receives Section 8 Discharge
Archive Entry Date: 7/25/44
LeRoy Pryor was discharged without honor from the US Army at the height of mobilization for WWII
Married: LeRoy Pryor and Gertrude Thomas
Archive Entry Date: 12/28/1943
Three years after he was born, World War II spurred Richard's parents to marry
North Washington Street
Archive Entry Date: 1938
The block, in the red-light district, where Pryor was raised
Arrest Four Negroes in Wabash Sand House
Archive Entry Date: 03/ 17/1931
At age 15, Marie's son LeRoy — later Richard's father — was arrested for disorderly conduct