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What? So like a movie theater that just played porno >> in the 70s and ' 80s. It was the classic
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cinema. I went there and saw Westside Story in 1979 with the cast of the musical I was doing. But later on he
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lost access to all those reels of classic movies. So he did the next best thing which was to get video cassettes
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of porn and he would play that all day. We've got the promotional board in the
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club. It says continuous sex movies at 1125 and 8. Les Mills was the mayor of Aland at the time. And so we sort of
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went to his people and said, "We would like to raise the moral fiber of 321
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Queen Street by developing it into a comedy club." They didn't think twice
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about it. They booted him out and we took over the whole building. >> Was the porn cinema do quite well.
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>> He had a penny rent. He wasn't proud of the adult cinema, but the income from
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the adult cinema helped fund the Hollywood in Aenddale, which is also still going today, as you'll