{"id":257,"date":"2008-12-05T00:12:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-12-05T00:12:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:12:48","slug":"peep-show-taylor-street-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Peep-show, Taylor Street: 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/porno02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/porno02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This nondescript building on Taylor Street down from <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=238\">The Big-T<\/a> now houses a phone operation of some sort, but once upon a time, it was a porn store.<\/p>\n<p>I don't suppose that such a place could have operated out in the open any time before the late 60s or 70s, at least not in Columbia, but eventually the \"revolution\" arrived even here.  I recall riding down Taylor Street one day with my mother, reading the sign, and asking her exactly what <i>was<\/i> a \"peep show\".  Strangely (to me then) she didn't really seem to have a ready explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time I believe that porn stores have been zoned out of downtown though there are certainly still some in the metro area.  This building has had a lot of tenants in the years since then, and was in fact a law office at one time if I'm recalling correctly.  It appears that currently, you can once more \"reach out and touch someone\" there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This nondescript building on Taylor Street down from The Big-T now houses a phone operation of some sort, but once upon a time, it was a porn store. I don't suppose that such a place could have operated out in the open any time before the late 60s or 70s, at least not in Columbia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,5],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-historic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}