Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mystery began to unfold last fall in sleepy, sun-drenched Clearwater, Fla. The Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. decided to buy the 270-room Fort Harrison Hotel, a downtown landmark, and a nearby bank building. Southern Land stated that the hotel would stay open, but another spokesman announced that it would become a center for the United Churches of Florida, a new ecumenical outfit that soon won endorsement from twelve local clergymen...
...porn is scarcely confined to such strips. In Houston, the Bellaire News, which is a combination of a newsstand and a smut shop, is taking applications for the job of topless chauffeur who will whisk tourists in a black Cadillac from downtown hotels to its back room porno parlor. Ex-Prostitute Xaviera Hollander has sold 9 million copies of her paperbacks. Some 780 American theaters, including many elegant first-run houses, routinely show X-rated movies 52 weeks a year...
Atlanta police have been unable to padlock a single porn palace in years. Recently they raided a downtown theater, seized the film and arrested the projectionist, who before he was led away proceeded to give angry customers tickets to another showing scheduled for later that day. He was released on bond and back at work for the screening. His arrest was a study in double futility, for in Atlanta, as in other cities, the police find it impossible to penetrate the maze of legal fronts and find the identity of the true owners...
...recall of the mayor. The chances of this tactic succeeding are small. A petition to recall requires 150,000 signatures all of which can easily be challenged. Each signee must give extensive information about his whereabouts including ward and telephone numbers. I spoke to people in several wards of downtown Philadelphia last week who said they feared physical retribution if they signed the petition...
...There is south on Highway One, you know, the one that goes through Ipswich et al. Highway One peters out in downtown Key West, Florida--they just closed down the naval air station so the town will probably be even sleepier than it ever was. After a couple of days of the palm trees and all their concomitants, you'll probably be ready for the pedal steel guitars. Well, the only places I know of to look for pedal steel music are two perhaps figmentary, (because they're only mentioned in songs) but pretty concrete (at least in the images...