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Channel 1 to Open “Chi Chi LaRue’s” Retail Store
September 9, 2008 | 20 Comments
Press Release Roundup: Channel 1 Releasing will open their first brick-and-mortar retail store, Chi Chi LaRue’s, in November. Named after you-know-who, the store will be located at 8932 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood and offer the entire Channel 1 Releasing catalog of 2000 titles, including All Worlds Video, Catalina Video and Rascal Video. The Rascal line of adult toys (via TopCo Sales) and a forthcoming Chi Chi LaRue line of adult novelties, as well as branded calendars, clothes, condoms (via One Condoms), greeting cards, photobooks and other items, will also be made available. “This place is going to be over-the-top fabulous. I’m thrilled to be opening a store where customers can come and get the full Chi Chi experience,” Ms. LaRue said in the press release. Channel 1 partner Rob Novinger said it is “physically impossible” for retailers to stock their entire line. Chi Chi LaRue’s will be the only place customers can pick up literally everything the company offers. (Ahem, that will also include the two movies I directed for AWV (CATCH ME and SEX WITH STRANGERS.) Details about a grand-opening bash will be announced soon. (8932 SMB was the site of the venerable adult retailer Drake’s West Hollywood. The Drake’s outlet on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood closed at the end of 2007. However, per their website, Drake’s West Hollywood is still open. Someone needs to get on the ball over there.)
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This was inevitable, I suppose. I wonder when ML will have his own store? In fact, I wonder why more companies don’t do this.
“Chi Chi LaRue‚Äôs will be the only place customers can pick up literally everything the company offers.”
Literally everything? It’s on Santa Monica Blvd., so be careful how you word that! (Cheap joke, sorry.)
Funny, I had the same thought as Will’s… If Johnny Hazzard or Blake Riley are available, I’ll be visiting daily!
In “Sex with Strangers.” Whatever happened to Kevin Brown?
Oh Geoff, I also wonder if Steve Cruz would be picked up there as well?
Does Chi Chi sells Tube socks?
Have a great day.
If Miss Michaels boutique were to open next door to Chi Chi Larues Erotic Emporium would Michael throw Dildos at customers entering his arch rivals retail boudoir?
In the old days(80′s) seems alot of the William Higgins boys were seen loitering outside Drakes.
DeWayne,
Why must you take cheap shots at Michael? I mean, I know this is just porn and not to be taken seriously, but if someone said a comment like that about Corrigan you’d be pouting. Let’s at least try and be civil.
Anonymous – Lighten up! ML can take a joke. Have you ever read some of the mean things he says on his own blog? He can dish it out too, believe me.
good for chi chi – she deserves all the success she gets! she’s a real maverick (and i almost hate to use that word these days) in the adult industry!
Why o Why would anyone be opening a retail store in this economy? Especially in this location? WEHO is dying and becoming straight, there’s no parking for customers, no foot traffic and in this economy? Don’t the folks at Channel 1 read the headlines? All the Hustler stores are closing left and right!
Wake up Chi Chi – get your mascara out of your eyes woman! You want to go broke fast? I give it less than a year, sorry.
It’ll be a Willy Wonka store, but for porn. LOL
Is that the Scooby Doo Van??
For people looking to buy Johnny Hazzard or Blake Riley, I’m sure Johnny’s Vibrating Cock and Blake’s Vibrating Ass will be available for purchase. I hear that there is parking located behind the store. And I’m sure it’s ok to sell gay porn to straight people.
Parking blows in West Hollywood, but you can’t bitch about the foot traffic on that stretch of Santa Monica. There are tons of people going back and forth, esp. on weekends (cue jokes about sidewalk sales!)
Wolf Hudson if Chi Chi’s is a Willy Wonka store, will they sell 11 inch chocolate WONKA’s?
Anon BTW Michael Lucas loves seeing his name mentioned and I have been giving him a break recently and yes he even let me post on his blog. Will can tell you I am nicer now days(or getting soft)
Michael I know you wouldn’t throw dildos at the customers just Chi Chi
A Willy Wonka story for porn..LOL! This is literally down the street from me, so how can I not check it out?
I totally agree, Michael Lucas should take over a storefront next door or across the street!
Michael Lucas could call the store ‘End of the Rainbow’!
Michael Lucas could call the store ‘End of the Rainbow’!
Who is that loyal to one companies videos that they would go to a shop that stocks only C1R’s stuff. In a time that Nakedsword.com is loaning hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hot house, Falcon, and Raging Stallion to keep them going, it would seem obvious that Scenes, not whole videos are where the market is at. This is a purely ego move for Chi Chi, and will fail miserably. When one is jacking off, no one cares if Chi Chi made it, they care if it is hot. No one jacks off thinking of Chi Chi. Her videos are hit and miss, there is much hotter content online. AND NEWS FLASH… That van in the picture is the mid 1990′s OLD Chevy Astro Van that used to be painted with the ALL Worlds logo. How sad, geez lease a new van for a year. It maybe is a metaphor that like the van Chi Chi is old and tired and something no one wants anymore. Chi Chi’s birthday parties used to be hundreds of people at The Abbey and a who’s who of LA gay circles. Her last one was Chi Chi crying in the backroom because it was so poorly attended. It’s just porn people, no one with a life really cares about who makes it. Chi Chi is a desperate fame whore with no real audience anymore. A brick and mortor store is another example of why the old skool DVD porn companies are being killed by NakedSword and AEBN. Who is proud to go buy porn in public? Only tweakers and other losers. Ego costs more than anything else… proof.
Chad, anything else you want to get off your chest? LOL. It’s about marketing and brand names. Look at it from that point of view.
It’s no secret that I’m not very fond of Chi Chi LaRue. But since this store will apparently have everything the company has to offer, I wonder if that means I’d finally be able to get my hands on some Out of Print Catalina movies. There were 2 movies Brad McGuire did for Catalina and I have been unable to find them. Name Your Pleasure and Party In Provincetown.