The world was a different place. Excerpt from my online digging:
I read your website on SCREW and the whorehouses in NYC during the 70s. That was some time! I miss it very much. I grew up during that time. Riding the F train, E train, up and down, the A Train, having felafels in Greenwich Village, 50 c pizza slices, hot dogs and papaya juice at Gray's Papaya.. And then the sex: The streets used to be lined up with really nice looking girls. The 8th Ave corner from 42nd and 8th, right around
from the subway entrance. I once went into a place there with a beautiful Venezuelan girl for $ 10 plus $ 10 for
room. That quality sex now costs $ 400 to $ 1000 in Vegas. I am talking 1976. Then, I also went to Tahitia and The Harem around 53rd and Lexington.
You are right about these places. The girl cost $ 50 and the total came out to be $ 80, in luxurious class. Car jobs, you could get them in Brooklyn near the bridge and in Queens Northern Blvd. Best of all: the opportunity to see and meet real legendary porn stars during that time.
At the Melody Burlesque, I saw all the top ones. First I used to go to the Pussycat theater around the corner
(49th street and Bway), and then to Melody. In fact, I think Melody was in the next block up. I met Seka, Desiree Cousteau, Serena, and others. I met Annette Haven at the Pussycat. Apart from these there were
secondary stars like Beth Anna (Joanna Miguel) who was really fantastic with blowjobs like Vanessa del Rio herself. My first meeting at Melody, it was Serena (Serena Blaquelord?). The best films were there on the screen in 35 mm. V THE HOT ONE, INSATIABLE, BLONDE ON FIRE, BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN, SENSATIONAL JANINE, TALK DIRTY TO ME, CHERYL HANSEN COVERGIRL, BAD GIRLS, BLONDE IN BLACK SILK, EASY,,etc.
I always wonder what happened to Jessie St. James of EASY and TALK DIRTY? She was one reall hot looking. There was some issue at the Melody and so it was closed down and re-opened as Harmony Burlesque but the quality was gone maybe. At the Show World center at corner of 42nd and 8th, that was also hot. I saw Lisa de Leeuw there. She laughed in loud manner. Right above the subway entrance to 42nd and 8th, there was a very good cheap place called TANFASTIC. I met Maria, Carmen, others there. $10 entry, $15 sex. Individual rooms. You had to sign your "name" at a register when you entered their lobby upstairs and the girls would be waiting in one line. You take a token and wait and when you like a girl just give her the token. Very guaranteed sex.
As soon as you left Manhattan and ventured towards New Jersey the climate changed. The rest of the country was just one big New Jersey.