From USA Today for Monday July 16, 2018
1968 The Year That Transformed The Nation
Larry Flint, who began his career in a small-time bar in 1968 rose up to become a self-proclaimed porno king only a decade later, said God helped him. (pictured 1978 AP FILE PHOTO)
While societal strictures were loosening. Larry Flint was busy promoting smut, in fact, he took it all the way to the Supreme Court. Larry Flint's dream was a modest one: buy a bar with a pool table. Cover the top of the table with plywood. Hire a some young woman to wear a bikini while she danced on the table top. No fancy delusions of respectability, only a safe bet that a lot of men would be willing to pay cash to drink cheap beer and watch attractive dancers. He opened the Hustler Cocktail Lounge based on this business model in early 1968 in Dayton, Ohio.
He is quoted as saying that he just wanted to make money when he first opened up the Hustler. That was basically his vision. He would go on to become one of the most successful and reviled pornographers of America's twentieth century. The late 60's made it possible for such a career to propel Flint from a dirt-poor Kentucky boy to his later fame and fortune. Smut, smut, and more smut all in a day's work for Larry Flint. Still at it today, Flint is 75 and producing pornography which is adapting to the changing atmosphere of technology by producing video and using the internet to reach all of those porno hungry men. Flint is quoted as saying, "I think I started at the right time" and "there was a niche there that really worked for me."
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