Along with my copy of the latest
Sleaze Fiend Magazine (Issue #3.5, a combination best-of/new material, out now), my Editor in Chief Nick “Bat32” Canales also included a little slice
of New York City's grotty past for me – a Show World token.
Show World was located in NYC's
Midtown area on 8th Avenue, close to the notorious 42nd
Street (hallowed ground for grindhouse cinema fanatics), and was opened
in 1977 by Richard Basciano, sometimes nicknamed 'The King of Porn'. Show World
was the adult emporium against which all others measured themselves, and
featured a variety of x-rated pursuits. Those who dared to enter into the
neon-streaked building could buy these octagonal brass tokens for a quarter –
20mm in diameter – and feed them into coin slots, which would raise a partition
and reveal a live nude performance on a stage, flanked on one side by a series
of private booths (and a mirrored wall on the other)...
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