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On June 18, 1977, Cicero planted a pipe bomb on the store’s roof caused considerable damage to the building’s exterior when it detonated in the early morning hours. According to McCaleb, the McKeesport store sees far more traffic in its back rooms than any of the other Modern Adult shops — in Erie, Toledo, and Parkersburg, W.

Va.

While the majority of its customers are men, every kind of person visits Modern Adult. “Police Search Yields 3 Bombs.” Plain Dealer. I feel sorry for them;

they're taking their lives into their own hands."

In the arcade, four men do a silent shuffle, glancing up at each other and down at the booths, which are in two small rows and have doors that end knee-level.

All Adult Bookstore featured private video viewing booths that became a popular and well-known cruising destination. An employee at the Smithfield Street AdultMart in Downtown Pittsburgh, which is owned by a national chain, told me over the phone that AdultMart corporate decided to close the booths and back rooms in its stores some time in 2019 but the employee couldn’t give a reason as to why.

It's like they're getting a fix."

Most head straight through the plastic curtains that lead to the back room, the arcade.

"They can't help themselves . Soon after the fire, the McKeesport city council designated this remote, industrial strip of West Fifth Avenue near the Mansfield Bridge as the only zone in McKeesport where “adult entertainment” is legally permitted to operate.

Some booths lock and others are connected by “glory holes” in the walls for masturbation or fellatio between two consenting adults; people simply didn’t want to go in.

Kalamets is working on changing that. May 6, 1969.

  • Coyne, John P., and Mary John Woge. “I should be helping them feel that it’s OK,” says McCaleb.

    McCaleb also notes that the pandemic increased a need for their industry because “people were forced to look at each other, to be with each other without distractions.

    Instead, she has physically cleaned it up.

    In popular culture, adult bookstores and porn theaters are often depicted as sticky, dingy, or disgusting, and “cleaning up” is usually a euphemism that precedes legislation which makes way for sterilizing waves of gentrification. A tip from his mother led to his hiring, and "laziness" and a "poor job market" keep him there.

    "I don't like it.

    April 13, 1972.

  • “Pipe Bomb Rips Back Door Off W. Side Adult Book Store.” Plain Dealer. . April 23, 1978.
  • Coyne, John P., and John Oller. They were a Fall 2021 Writer in Residence at City Books, and they are at work on a book about race, desire, and Jewish poets in Appalachia. But it doesn't matter whether I work here or someone else works here."

    Police have been cracking down lately.

    gay video booths

    August 15, 1987.

  • Molyneaux, David G. “City Seeking To Shut Adult Bookstores.” Plain Dealer. Like other adult book and video stores of its time, All Adult Bookstore was subject to numerous anti-obscenity raids (many of which led to the arrests of both employees and patrons) by the Cleveland Police Department’s Vice Squads from the late 1960s through the early 2000s.

    They come in here about the same time for the same thing every day. Kalamets has instituted Ladies’ and Couples’ Nights — Wednesdays and Saturdays, respectively — during which those demographics receive 20% off their in-store purchases. “Judge Strips City of Peep-Show Licensing Law.” Plain Dealer.