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In 1976, Larry Levenson, a high school friend of Al Goldstein and a former fast-food manager who was selling ice cream at Coney Island, was introduced to the swinging lifestyle by a woman he met at a bar. [1] .
TORONTO – Manhattan was a much wilder place 30 years ago, when a former kosher-meat salesman named Larry Levinson opened Plato’s Retreat, which quickly became the world’s most famous sex...
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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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 1, 2009 · 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...
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...
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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...
