Legends in Cement
By Tod Hunter
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
If you watch the mainstream documentary
Inside Deep Throat, you'll see news footage of a middle-aged lady matter-of-factly saying, "I wanted to see a dirty movie, and I saw a dirty movie" in front of the Pussycat Theater on Santa Monica Boulevard.
Now the Studs Theater, it still has cement handprints and signatures of adult industry stars including Linda Lovelace, John C. Holmes and Harry Reems on the sidewalk outside the theater.
Adult industry veteran Bill Margold has been asking Larry Flynt to buy the imprints — particularly those of Holmes and Lovelace, who are now deceased — and move them to the Hustler Hollywood store on the Sunset Strip.
"I think they'd be a lot happier over there," Margold told XFANZ. "Santa Monica Boulevard is still thought of as the boulevard of hookers, whereas Sunset is the boulevard of entertainment."
Margold went to see Holmes' imprint with the writers of the John Holmes biography, A Life Measured in Inches.
"I'm sad at how ill-treated the footprints are [at Studs] and how well-treated they are at Hustler Hollywood. Flynt could buy the whole theater if he wanted to. I could run it as a historical theater if he did that. We could show the old movies on a regular basis."
The Hustler Hollywood store in West Hollywood, Calif., has handprints of adult personalities in its entranceway, including Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein, director Paul Thomas, and performers Herschel Savage and Christy Canyon.
