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Owners: new Main Stree00t store not '0000dult shop'
By Sean C• Morgan
Of The New Era
A Lebanon couple opened a shop
selling tobacco and adult novelties on
Main Street March 30.
While preparing to open, letter
writers and members of the community
voiced concerns about the "adult shop,"
but owner Larry Eckert wants to let the
community know that what he and his
wife, Michelle, have established is not
an "adult shop."
While only adults are permitted in-
side the store, it doesn't sell pornogra-
phy.
"Adult stores are adult stQres," Eck-
ert said. "This is a store you have to be
18 to walk into. Interestingly enough,
'adult store' never crossed our minds."
The shop's inventory includes ciga-
rettes, cigars, rolling papers, glass pipes,
pipe tobacco, tie-dyed shirts, adult nov-
elties, lingerie and jewelry.
The adult novelties are the types of
things sold at Pure Romance passion
parties, Eckert said, items for bachelor-
ette and bachelor parties, lotions, phero-
mones and adult toys. He said Michelle
once was a consultant for Pure Romance,
a direct sales company that sells products
in-home parties, similar to companies
such as Tupperware or Mary Kay.
The glass pieces they sell in the store
are high-quality, he said, and include
products made by local glassblowers.
He also stocks German glass, he
said. "I know it's better than the Chinese
glass."
The Eckerts plan to expand their
line, including traditional tobacco pipes,
flavored pipe tobacco and more lingerie
selections.
About once a day, Eckert has had
someone coming in looking for pornog-
raphy because customers must be at least
18 years old, he said, but his store doesn't
stock it.
Eckert, 50, worked in quality control
at Entek Manufacturing for 23 years, he
said. Michelle works at the Liquor Store
in Lebanon. He has lived in Lebanon
since the early 1970s.
He opened the store to create a job,
he said, adding that he's just a small
businessman trying to make his way. He
located the business on Main Street be-
cause space was available there and the
rent was attractive.
"There's nothing like it in this town,"
Eckert said. "They're on Main Street in
every city."
And they're popular, he said.
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Photo by Sean C. Morgan
Larry Eckert stands in his store, in front of a painting of a
Native American woman with a peace pipe.
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