A Trip Through Center City in 1980, VIDEO! (passes no less than 4 'establishments')
In an effort to 'quench angst', fellow mongers, I'll share something which I spotted last week, a video made as a college presentation (probably), that is entitled "Everyday Life May, 1980, in Philadelphia".
Please begin at 0:34:40, or travel back a few minutes to check out scenes at a car wash in the area near Temple University. , and some really cool 'land yachts'! You'll pass some really "seedy" stuff on, and around Broad Street near City Hall (near the Apollo, strip joints; cathouses; an old "AMP"; one burlesque theater; the area during the inception of the Market East construction (a $10.00 bbj place, a 'smorgasbord', eh, not too classy); and lots of other cool stuff!
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mscz5i285v4[/URL]
NOTE: You'll need to look "past" people, buses, cars, in window reflections, and watch carefully to notice 'even a glimpse' of most of it, but IT IS THERE!
It's hell in the Susquehanna Valley, too. Cumberland and Dauphin Counties were 'cleansed, politically', and a dearth of talent exists everywhere else!! Our only consolation is that it looks like AMPs are opening on every corner, forcing mongers to "go browsing". "Escorts", like in the city, are either overpriced trash, or "formerly good quality pickins, that had a 1000% price hike". Many reliable escorts have stopped posting, and accepting new clients, so older mongers are in a decent position, but newer entries DON'T have it easy!!
Sam Katz should enjoy some of this, too!!
Cheers!
A little 'ancient history'. Safer, cheaper, and carefree!
[QUOTE=SamKatz;6756359]Looking like what I said about "Subject To Change" was right on. Shinys going on vacation, that word "vacation" has lost it's meaning since Dash went on vacation, Yoyo went on vacation, Mina is on vacation, etc. Thai girl is gone already at Infinity, these establishments changing girls like no other I been away from the scene for a couple days posted the update and hours later it changes LOL. Not going to follow this train so closely anymore. It's like a change every 12 hours! I just recieved a PM about Rosemary Spa and asked about it to a few guys in the community and good feedback but that's all I'll say since I don't know for sure. But good things so far, I'll report when I get a chance to go or got multiple people telling me about it.
What's up Tonsil Hockey, video looks like the 80's wow. This was a great time in so many ways imo. 15:19 looks like $2 and some change for over 4 gallons if I read it correctly damn. Overall, life was just so much more simple back then without the internet and technology that advanced too much in areas where kids don't even leave the house anymore and alot have social anxiety and less men are getting laid which is helping the prostitution industry as a whole and will continue to grow in mongers imo but that's another topic LOL.
Have you been to an AMP in the 80's? If so, just wondering how much was it and how did you find it? Before and after the start of the internet I remember when AMPs were advertising in the Philadelphia Daily News(Newspaper) and even the Yellow Pages listed some if my memory serves me right. Online, this site was the first one I found in 2003, lost my PW and made another account in 2004 when it was WSG. But I do remember Backpage was around early too (Google says started 2004). But the interaction between other mongers and the sharing of information sites I didn't find for a long time after this one. Cool video Tonsil Hockey, made me think of the evolution of the AMP scene in Philly! Interesting.
Sam Katz aka AMPimp.[/QUOTE]The way's 'places' posted, were in the areas between the movie ads, and the beginning of the sports section in the 4-Star (Daily News), or around "Page Nine" of the Philadelphia Journal. There were two 'AMPs' then, one on South 13th between Locust and Walnut, with the other on North 11th near Race; both places were on the 2nd floors, and you had to 'ring thru' at a mid-way landing with intercom. In 1979/80, the house took $20, and the provider, $40, for a 45-minute massage with FS romp. I was once chewed out after pigging out on Hunan, by the 'den mother', that "you eat, you lazy now; next time won't be coming in".
In May, 1980, AIDS was just becoming known, but in New York's, and San Francisco's Gay Communities. Arch Street, between 8th and Broad had four "houses", with local talent, "romps" ran around $50, with the Gallery at 2132 Market Street being $20-$35 (house), and $40-$50 tip (BBFS); Greek was $70.
I'll write about "Head to Toe" (Bluegrass Shopping Center), and "the Fitness Workshop" at 7037 Market, in the next update.
Cheers!; be SAFE!!
"Wish in One Hand". (I know, DREAM ON! But please give this a bit of thought)
[QUOTE=Jonesy1972;6758304]I'm curious if the vacation is the hook. They'll get YoYo to bring in new clients, then pass you off to Sunny or Amy, who are excellent providers and the establishment is top notch, but YoYo has moved on to attract a whole new slew of mongers to a new business.[/QUOTE]
"U-Turn Man", thanks for the cool commentary; those were 1980's prices! (not cheap at that time, but doable).
Fractured minds think alike!
For most of my mongering life, NYC was "The Vegas of Mongering"! First-class action was available just feet away from Times Square, the best of the destinations was called "The Zoo" (on 6th Avenue), and street urchins distributed leaflets with coupons attached which offered "discounted fun", at places like "The Pussycat Playhouse", "Planet Erotic-Ahhh", and "Bounce", on 42nd Street.
That era came to an end prior to 1991, an rightly so. It was far too flagrant, but had NYC's 'mongering playground' originally been set up to blend with the community; attract clientele into "safe areas, with clean, first-class establishments, known for stellar service, with a low-key outward appearance", their clientele would also serve to support neighboring business, cab drivers would refer business execs and tourists (both) - to these establishments. Restaurants would thrive, as would other area retailers, but to make this happen, both sides of the mongering need to be 'intelligently decriminalized', which would gradually improve at least some of the hell that has been Kensington.
As it stands now, AMPs popping up everywhere will create more disarray, not only in Philly, but in the suburbs and rural areas of both New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Politicians standing on a soap box arguing against 'depravity', contribute to areas like Kensington rivaling the world's worst 'Third World Shitholes'. Create an "Adult Enterprise Zone", set it up for self-regulation, look at Amsterdam, and a few other major cities in Europe. A Nevada-type system wouldn't work here, however, a successful system would improve life in Philly as a whole, but can only be accomplished with minimal politics, no direct taxation (aka 'sin taxes' no "czars" of any type, and has to begin with "Joe, and Jane Six-Pack". (City coffers would gain from increases in real estate value, associated business traffic, and making Center City the "draw" it once used to be.).
Keeping the 'criminal element' out of the fray is the biggest challenge, and how that is done, I have no idea. 13th Street and Market was once graced by "The Pretzel Machinery Company", which drew police from damn near every precinct (within reasonable distance), and kept that general area fairly safe. (Cops and the general public were in no-way as adversarial then) They served "Harold Carmichael's fist-sized" soft pretzels, which were a 'blonde color', and divine in flavor. "PMC's" coffee was damn excellent, too. This all began to disappear with the commencement of the Convention Center / Market East Station / Gallery Mall "Mayor Green's Dream" construction project. GOD were those (1-times the size of a large bagel) damn great pretzels, worth an hours-long trip to "Billy Penn's shadow". The REAL Reading Terminal, and Reading Terminal Market also had a huge positive benefit on that area!
Wish in one hand, crap in the other, I know, "pipe dreamz'. BUT, if a principal begins to slowly gain traction, it can be made to happen.
