Former adult bookstore bares all

triangle books
The renovation of a shuttered porn shop on North Boulevard has stripped the space down to its skivvies, exposing what store probably looked like back in its heyday.

Here’s what it looked like a few months ago:

trianglebookstore

Charlie Diradour, president of local firm Lion’s Paw Development, bought the building in September after the Triangle Book Store shut down. BizSense reported then that Diradour would rehab the 1,300-square-foot space and look to land a small restaurant or coffee shop as a tenant.

And Diradour and his firm wasted little time transforming the five-decade-old shop.

The building was constructed as a Texaco gas station in the 1950s. In became a massage parlor in the 1970s and eventually morphed into an adult bookstore that closed last summer.

Diradour bought it out of foreclosure for $225,000.

triangle books
The renovation of a shuttered porn shop on North Boulevard has stripped the space down to its skivvies, exposing what store probably looked like back in its heyday.

Here’s what it looked like a few months ago:

trianglebookstore

Charlie Diradour, president of local firm Lion’s Paw Development, bought the building in September after the Triangle Book Store shut down. BizSense reported then that Diradour would rehab the 1,300-square-foot space and look to land a small restaurant or coffee shop as a tenant.

And Diradour and his firm wasted little time transforming the five-decade-old shop.

The building was constructed as a Texaco gas station in the 1950s. In became a massage parlor in the 1970s and eventually morphed into an adult bookstore that closed last summer.

Diradour bought it out of foreclosure for $225,000.

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