The Internet has finally succeeded in killing off the last of the porno palaces. No more sitting in the dark with a bunch of other pervs with your feet sticking to the floor. Everybody now just gets their smut online – alone in their homes without the tender touch of fellow film goers. Alas, another shared social activity destroyed by the digital revolution. There are, surprisingly, a couple of melancholic reviews of the theater online.
The Forum theater opened in the swinging 70s and amazingly, given it’s piece of real estate, survived into the 21st century. Philly mag has a “research” piece on The Forum which is fascinating…
So how will this seedy block improve now that the adult establishments have been exxxpunged? The current owner has a few suggestions, including a yarn store. Hmmm, that conjures up a whole new image when you hear yarn bombing…
The problem with modern day porn films is that they lack a good yarn…
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