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Article: Adult magazine industry hurting in the Valley.(San Fernando Valley, California)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 7, 1998
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When Paul Wisner began publishing adult magazines out of the San Fernando Valley in 1959, demand was red hot.
"It was a whole different world. The magazines were sought after," recalls Wisner, owner of London Press. "People dealing in adult businesses needed magazines, or they weren't in the adult business."
Today, hard-core publications like the ones Wisner churns out of his Valencia plant have fallen on tough times.
The pore business is seeing a major realignment - and much of it is taking place in the San Fernando Valley, arguably the industry's biggest center. Adult magazines are being supplanted not only by adult videos but by an explosion ...