drive through there sometime in a sleet storm and see them you will
remember.

what does a sleet storm have to do with it?

when you see women in high heels, short skirts with no stockings, mostly bare
arms on the street before 7:00 in the morning in a sleet storm you tend to
remember seeing them. I also wondered at the time why there? what trade could
they drum up in that area of town?