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