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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was the backside of 317 E Main St, the former McCarroll Brothers hardware store, as viewed in an alley between South Green Street and South Jefferson Street.

According to an article in the Ottumwa Courier ("Five buildings snatched up by downtown developer," Nov 16, 2017) the building was occupied by an adult movie theater for a time after the hardware store closed.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Theaters—Iowa (sh2016002511)

I think the sign was originally intended to be viewed from farther away than this?

I had never been inside an adult video arcade, and based on what I had read on Wikipedia about the activities that take place inside, I decided I wouldn't go into this one, either!

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In downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 11th, 2020, outside an "Adultmart" (a chain store mostly in Ohio and Pennsylvaina) at the southwest corner of Boulevard of the Allies and Smithfield Street.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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From the back cover:

"Pin-up photographs are to smut movies something like Little Miss Muffet is to the village whore. They're nothing. They're decorous little snapshots compared to the filthy movies which find a ready market in any good-sized town. Business is always thriving for the "special movie" boys. Once in the can, the film is good for countless rentals to stags, conventions - even private meetings of the lewd and the degraded. Law enforcement against this particular vice is difficult. Prosecutions are comparatively rare and convictions even rarer.

"The Peddlers" is the story of one man's fight against this illegal industry. Although fiction, it is based on fact, and the journalistic procedures and law enforcement routines are as authentic as they are dynamic."