“ The expanse of land owned and operated by oil refineries here is long, desolate and gray. It doesn’t help that those refineries sit across from a bolt of property known as Jerry’s Corner, where The Pleasure Garden swingers club, Charlie’s Dream 24-hour porn shop and the C-level stripper haven Purple Orchid reside on a devil’s triangle of lust and disgust. When you look up and see the there-forever Boys & Girls Club billboard with a young Denzel Washington that reads “Be Inspired,” all you can think to yourself is, “How?
— A.D. Amorosi, The Big Chill - citypaper
