Grindhouse/Times Square Marquees...

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Rad.

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A great piece on the Yonge St. that used to be, specifically the Rio.

http://www.blogto.com/film/2015/03/t...e_rises_again/

The video in that link (which I can't embed and which is not the youtube video below) is also pretty great.

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Yeah, it's a shame. We kinda caught the end of the glory days of Yonge St.

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I remember seeing all that sleaze as a kid and not being old enough to partake, haha. But we did get a few bits and pieces in college - remember taking JZ to that weird 2nd floor nudie bar with all the green lighting?

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Yeah, there was still plenty of weird happening in the early 90s, still had the porno loop booths down there as well.

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I've been to a strip joint that, I think, was on Yonge. It was surprising that there was no cover charge & the dancers allowed lite touching during private dances. And all the dancers were attractive. I have no idea the name of the place. The dancer I 'met', told me she "could smell the gun powder on me" when I told her I was from Texas.

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Hahaha

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Ian, was that the place with the girl in the neon green, or was that Zanzibar?

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Ian, was that the place with the girl in the neon green, or was that Zanzibar?

The place we took Jim? That was some neon green place. Not the Zanzibar (though I did get kicked out of there once for complaining really loudly that the advertised 'real sex' show was just two people faking it).

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I was there a few times, nice work getting kicked out. That place was not easy to get kicked out of haha

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