Doctor Zoidburg said:
...........about an incident that happened many years ago on Young street. Evidently a portugeese shoe shine boy was dragged up on to a roof and molested and killed. The LE reponded by shutting all the porn shops and massage parlours in the GTA.
The old guy told me that they useto give out coupons for free massages, when 24 were collected a free massage was to be had. He missed out on his free massage because they closed all the palours hust as he was about to get his last coupon.
An old guy! Holy shit, I rememeber it as if it were yesterday. Pretty sure it happened in 1977. The lower section of Yonge, I don't remember the cross streets, had a couple of strip joints and massage parlors. They had black and white TV screens over the doorway and a come on guy standing outside trying to get you to go in. Usually a couple girls would be standing in the doorway in lingere and they would also try to get you to go in.
The place I used to go to was called Starvin Marvins. You would go in the door and up one flight of stairs. It cost to get in and they didn't serve any alcohol. The stage was a rectangle and on each side was old movie theatre
seats. The girls were completely nude and the dancing very uninspired. You would often see guys with coats in their laps who were obviously jerking off.
Up one more flight of stairs was the massage parlor. It seems to me the women were often older, but I was young at the time. There was a lot of turnover and FS was available and an option after they were sure you weren't LE. When you went in a bouncer would pat you down. I always found the ladies there seemed very enthusiastic.
One night I saw one of the massage girls dancing and she had a big purple bruise on the outside of her thigh. I later found out that they were short dancers that night and told her to go down and fill in. She refused so one of the bouncers kicked her in the leg to get her cooperation.
There was a very short stretch of Younge that made me feel I was in one of the sex districts of a third world country.
Then the shoeshine boy was killed. At least one of the killers worked at one of the massage parlors as a bouncer/maintenance. What I found strange was there was this wild scene going on seemingly free from LE and it had been going on for years. I remember seeing the places as early as 1966. Then within days of the murder everything was closed and gone. Even the signs were down.