Seen today at the former site of Amazing.net, 135 King Street in Northampton. The window displays have been cleared out and the open sign is gone.
Amazing.net: Gone
Capital Video Corporation
Gazette: Amazing.Net to remain open in Northampton through Valentine’s Day
Today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette reports: Instead of closing Jan. 9, as signs posted at the entrances had indicated, Amazing.Net will instead shut down after the close of business on Feb. 14. “It’s just that maintaining our large space and property has become a bit too costly, so we are considering other options,” Wainwright said. [Brandon […]
Breaking News – Site of Amazing.net Store in Northampton Goes Up for Lease
This sure put JOY into our holiday. Nearly 10 years after the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported that Capital Video wanted to expand its chain of porn shops into Northampton, “For Lease” signs have appeared in the windows of 135 King Street. We can only hope that the next use for this site will be more positive for the neighborhood. […]
Springfield Republican: “Amazing.net, Springfield adult video store, closes”
Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop in Springfield, operating since 1993, has closed. The Springfield Republican reports today: Capital Video Corp., of Cranston, R.I., decided a few weeks ago to shut down the business, Amazing.net, at 496 Bridge St., said Lesley S. Rich, general counsel for the company. “There has been a downturn in the general economy and […]
Springfield Republican: “Springfield accuses Amazing.net adult video store customers of ‘lewd and lascivious behavior'”
The Springfield Republican reports on April 2: The city [of Springfield], claiming knowledge of “lewd and lascivious behavior” in an adult video store on Bridge Street, recently ordered the business to remove the doors of all 13 video booths used by its customers, intending to stop the behavior. The door-removal requirement was among conditions of the […]
Adrienne Rich: “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”
Capital Video’s Amazing.net store in Northampton portrays itself as gay-friendly, but this is just a fig leaf over the true nature of the bulk of today’s porn industry: Adrienne Rich describes the reality in “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, published in The Signs Reader: Women, Gender & Scholarship (The University of Chicago Press, 1983, page […]
Gazette: “Porn chain owes $261,486 in sales tax”
Today’s Gazette reports: Porn chain owes $261,486 in sales tax State revenue officials have slapped a hefty tax lien on the company that runs a King Street porn store for unpaid sales taxes, making the company one of the state’s top 100 sales tax delinquents. Capital Video Corp. owes the state Department of Revenue $261,486 […]
Porn and Escort Ads: An Exploitation Team (explicit language)
Porn and prostitution have long teamed up to exploit women. Porn tells men what to fantasize about. Some then go to prostituted women to act it out. For example, you can buy the following film today (number 3 in the top 100) from Amazing.net/GoFlix.com: Also on sale today is “Fuck My Mom & Me #6” […]
Gazette: “Year later, porn store brings scant change to neighborhood”
Today’s Gazette assesses the impact of Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop in Northampton. This shop, at 135 King Street, originally planned to contain 20 viewing booths. Year later, porn store brings scant change to neighborhood [Douglas A.] Kohl [a co-owner of commercial property at 139 King St.] has been trying to lease the former furniture […]
Springfield Republican: “Springfield to continue fight against adult viewing booths”
We applaud Springfield officials for not giving up on Apremont Triangle. The Republican reports today that the city is still interested in closing the viewing booths at the Amazing.net porn shop there. The booths are associated with health risks, economic blight, harassment of residents, and prostitution around the store. Springfield to continue fight against adult […]