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26 10 2009The former heart of Nashville’s tourist business is now overrun with adult movie houses, bookstores and massage parlors.
Lower Broad’s clientele had gone from rhinestone-studded to rough since the Opry moved out to Opryland three years earlier from the venerable Ryman Auditorium:
The Ryman remains open for tours, but a reporter recently counted 10 adult movie houses, bookstores or massage parlors within three blocks.In fact, the Adult Mini Cinema is right across the street from the Ryman. A sign in the window says: “Hi, for open-minded adults we have fiery films, magazines, paperbacks [and] novelties, but you must be 18 to enter.”Roy Acuff, “the king of country music,” owns one of the buildings housing an adult bookstore. He says there’s nothing he can do because the person he leased to subleased.