I live in Phenix City.  I wasn't alive when that happened and I am not originally from Phenix City.  But, we've all heard the stories.  I've never seen the movie about "Sin City."  I guess I should so I can get a better idea of what happened.  Here's excerpt from a website:  Phenix City had been a haven for crime almost since its incorporation in the early 19th century. At one point, U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson called Phenix City “the wickedest city in America” after receiving a report about how Fort Benning soldiers had been victimized there. According to author Margaret Anne Barnes, who wrote the definitive history of Phenix City, Gen. George Patton once threatened to take his tanks from Fort Benning to “mash Phenix City flat” because of the “atrocities committed against his soldiers.”