LEISURE: No More Cottontails

No More Cottontails

The framed Playboy magazine covers will come down, the mauve walls will surely be repainted, and the scanty outfits and cottontails donned by twelve Bunnies will be packed away for good. On July 31 the last Playboy Club in the U.S. will close its doors. Officials at the Hilton Inn in Lansing, Mich., which houses the hutch, have announced they will dismantle the operation that once employed 45 Bunnies and on one Valentine's Day attracted a crowd of 200 to watch a performance by another anachronism, Tiny Tim. It was the last of five franchises that sprang up in Midwestern cities...

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