259 W. 42nd St. in 1979
PHOTO: Langdon Clay
West Shanghai (c. 1966-1983ish) and Back Date Store. This was Hyman Cohen's Carpel Books (1954) raided in 1963 for challenging obscenity laws, where Marty Hodas installed his 1st peep machine, 1st film license to enter bookstores in mid-1967. It later became his Show Center by 1986.













