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coming & going [+] Walgreens will open up a location in Preston Hollow at 5301 W. Lovers Lane later this year. [+] Fajita Pete’s is open at Preston Forest Shopping Center. [+] Bad Ass Coffee is coming to the area, with three Dallas locations opening starting in 2023.
DIRTY MOVIE THEATER
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echnology now puts practically any vice into the palms of our hands, but Dallas used to be pimpled with spicy movie theaters.
We knew Downtown and East Dallas had grindhouses. But who
knew there was one at the Plaza at Preston Center? A 1976 news story by WFAA features two theaters that showed rated-X movies in what the story describes as University Park. One was the Fine Arts Theater at Snider Plaza, which started out as the Varsity Theater in 1927. The other was Preston 2 Theatre. Old advertisements list its address at 4011 Villanova, which is now the site of Muchacho. Families in the neighborhood, obviously, wanted the theaters to stop showing “high-grade soft-core pornography,” as the reporter calls it. Preston 2 didn’t just show skin flicks, though. A 1978 brief mentions a midnight showing of Top Hat.
Search “Fine Arts Theater” at prestonhollow.advocatemag.com to read more.
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MONEY PROBLEMS The Dallas-based company MoneyGram is under fire from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The most serious allegations have to do with customers’ wire transfers not making it to their destinations and “leaving families high and dry.” A federal lawsuit argues that “as one of the country’s largest international money transfer services, MoneyGram engaged in unfair practices which largely impacted immigrant communities who relied on the company to send money back home to loved ones.” MoneyGram argues in its press release that, while the CFPB is right to focus on the very real issue of consumer fraud in the financial services industry, MoneyGram “cares deeply about this issue” and has made “tremendous achievements” to protect consumers.
