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Lusty Lady
Defunct peep show establishments
For the magazine containing the biweekly sex-related column, see Village Voice.
The Lusty Lady is a pair of defunct peep show establishments, one in downtown Seattle and one in the North Beach district of San Francisco.
The Lusty Lady is a pair of defunct peep show establishments, one in downtown Seattle and one in the North Beach district of San Francisco.
The Lusty Lady was made famous by the labor activism of its San Francisco workers and the publication of several books about working there.
History
[edit]The Seattle Lusty Lady, known originally as the Amusement Center, was opened in the 1970s by two business associates, who soon after opened the other location in San Francisco.
Originally, both Lusty Ladys showed 16mm peep show films only; in 1983 live nude dancers were added and became the main focus of the businesses.[1] Until 2003 they were both owned by the same company; in that year the San Francisco franchise was bought by the strippers working there and began to be managed as a worker cooperative.
The San Francisco branch had already entered the news in 1997 when it became the first (and as of 2009[update] only) successfully union