Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past Park to Washington Station. Let the fat ladies with shopping bags sweep you up the rickety wooden escalator. Turn left at the tattered John Havlicek for hairspray, climb up past tattered John hawking Record Americans, and you will find yourself on Washington Street--address of Boston's best skin flick parlors...
...motion picture theatres line these eight blocks, including three skin flick parlors named, in patriotic Bostonian fashion, the Mayflower, the Pilgrim, and the State...
...inevitable snack bar, but it gets little use, and the popcorn man doubles as ticket-taker. Since there are no inter-missions, and the coming attractions are the real show-stoppers, a trip to the snack bar or men's room means you miss a mile or more of skin. Two-bit milk taffy suckers sell the best...
Even on your first trip to a skin flick parlor, what first strikes you is not the bare bosom on the screen, but the people in the audience. There are about fifty lean men, sitting bolt-upright and silent, and scattered evenly throughout the theatre. Un-written skin flick code says no one may sit within three seats of anyone else, even on crowded weekends...
HERE is Norman Mailer, peeling the skin off his own body, scraping the underside of his skin with pin pricks. And here is Norman Mailer, mythmaking, raising himself to new celestialities, o you Sergius O'Shaugnessy...