Krausz General Merchandise (Store For Sale) is right across from the Kings Highway Cinema, the last (gay) porn theater in Brooklyn. Though shuttered, you can still see some sad-eyed mannequin heads, who have nothing else to do but gaze out at the shifty procession of gray-haired men slipping quietly through the cinema doors. Shows are unmarked in the entranceway. What incongruity in this last-of-the-species theater (the old Jewel Box) hanging on in such a devout & seemly Jewish enclave.
There are floral dusters hanging in Krausz's window too. Connie, my next door neighbor, wore one always, but I guess they're strictly for the seventies and older set. Housecoats & movie theater porn, the oddest of odd-couples. Watch them as they slowly fade away.
3 comments:
This post bring back some memories! Hate to see stores like that closing.
Ha ha!
Hahaha, I remember that post...and how I was too afraid to read it at work!
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