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Plato's Retreat; Location: New York City, New York, United States: Owner: Larry Levenson Fred J. Lincoln: Type: Swingers club: Opened: 1977: Closed: 1985
Jon Hart and Mathew Kaufman’s entertaining documentary American Swing chronicles the rise and fall of Larry Levenson, whose nightclub & sex club Plato’s Retreat became, along with Studio 54, one of the top New York City hangouts of the late 1970s.
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A generation ago, the building’s basement was destination of another sort: It housed the wildly popular heterosexual sex club Plato’s Retreat, over which New York’s “King of Swing” Larry...
Apr 3, 2009 · A meat purveyor becomes a sex club entrepreneur: It sounds like a bad joke, but it’s the real-life story of Larry Levenson, a doughy, committed hound whose ‘70s-era hot-to-trot spot Plato’s...
Apr 18, 1993 · An assignment from New York magazine took her to one of the city’s infamous sex clubs, Plato’s Retreat, to photograph the owner, Larry Levinson. Levinson invited her to look around, and...
Sep 22, 2002 · Perhaps it was fitting that Plato's Retreat was created by a congenial cave man of sorts, a Bronx native named Larry Levenson. ''He was shallow intellectually,'' recalled his close friend Al ...
