What's New, Pussycat?
Driving by Sunset and Western in recent days, I realized that an icon of the area's sleazy past is no more: The Pussycat Theater, one of the area's last remaining porn houses, is currently being torn down (along with adjacent businesses, such as a former karate studio and shoe store).
Now, I don't know of anyone who actually ever went inside. But everyone remembers the theater's marquee. Every day, a different porn star's first name would be featured on the sign -- preceeded by the words "Come see..."
As in, "Come See Jenna," "Come See Tara" or "Come See Ginger." (I drive by the area every day on the way home from work. So yes, I noticed.)
In its place, a new shopping/housing complex (it's the new hip thing!) will be erected. "Views at 270," the development's name, will feature (scroll down) 56 affordable housing units, as well as a Walgreens drug store. (Where perhaps former Pussycat regulars can fill out a prescription for that nagging rash.)
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