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Showgirl Video: The last peep show in Las Vegas
Far up South Las Vegas Boulevard, past the glitzy resorts and
mega-casinos of the city's strip, you will find an unassuming brick
building with a boarded-up fire door at the front.
On the
surface, it looks like any of the many pawn shops and quickie wedding
joints nearby. But before it closed last month, Showgirl Video was the
last business of its kind in Vegas.
Signs outside boasted of its
unique selling point: private cubicles screening 125 adult channels and -
most unusually - a live peep show. Past the aisles of adult films and
toys, you could find boxed-off booths where $1 would lift a partition to
unveil a dancer performing for tips behind a window.
Opened
in 1983 by Vietnam War veteran Ray Pistol, Showgirl Video was a fixture
of the downtown area of Las Vegas for almost four decades. But now, the
signs showing scantily clad women have been removed and the venue will
soon be gone for good - it is set to be demolished and replaced by a
marijuana dispensary.
Former employees told the BBC it was a safe
space, where they felt they were in control. Some in the city say the
loss represents a natural progression for the place known as Sin City as
it pivots toward a new adult market. But to others, the closure of
Showgirl represents a city sanitising itself from its more salacious
past.
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