Word: pornocopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weighing the Profits. In New York City, members of the Mafia's Colombo, Lucchese and Genovese families are muscling in on the rich pornocopia, bringing new money and organization to the fractionalized trade. Since the syndicate took over the two-bit peep-show machines, the grainy amateur films featuring fading strippers have been replaced by slick color productions with sound, stories and attractive young models. Each movie is twelve minutes long, but in most machines viewers must drop in a fresh quarter for every two-minute segment. The 69 peep-show emporiums in midtown Manhattan bring in an estimated...
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