Histories of Anchorage: In December 1983, porn mogul Larry Flynt visited Anchorage, a brief, weird trip that captivated the local populace and press but worried the State Department, FAA and FBI.
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Flynt , the son of a Kentucky sharecropper, grew up poor and soon developed a healthy disdain for the niceties of society that got in the way of profits. After an itinerant series of occupations, including unrelated stints in the Navy and as a bootlegger, he tried his hand at running a bar in Ohio. That single bar grew into several bars, a series of strip clubs and, finally, the beginnings of a true pornographic empire with the 1974 publication of the first issue of Hustler magazine.
He provided a few more details in an advertisement, really an open letter to the Soviet Union, submitted to but not published by the Anchorage Times. “I’m trying to make a point that will be heard internationally,” wrote Flynt. “I plan to follow the flight of the notorious Korean Air Lines flight 007, whereby I ‘intrude’ 500 miles into the airspace of the U.S.S.R. ...
Three limousines, one specially outfitted to account for Flynt’s wheelchair, awaited him in Anchorage. From the airport, he traveled to the Sheraton Hotel and ensconced himself in the presidential suite. There, he held court for the three Anchorage television stations, two newspapers and one camera crew hired by Flynt to document the proceedings.
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