Vintage ad for the Big Top Theater, which played during the New York City based Emerald City show on July 2, 1977. The Big Top Theater was part of the same conglomeration of adult establishment on the corner of Broadway and 49th Street, which included the New World Theatre, the Circus Cinema, a burlesk joint upstairs, and The Video Shack, with the Kitty Kat, Mardi Gras, and Pussycat Theatres across the street.
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Welcome to The Bat Pussy Files, also known as the pile of papers and other related paraphernalia kept on the shelf under my desk. From time to time I’ll be sifting through the files and trying extract something of interest to at least a few others. One note before we get started, if you’re not…
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Today, September 7, 2020, is Labor Day in the United States, and fifty years ago September 7, 1970, just happened to also a Labor Day. Late summer of 1970 was just at the turning point towards full hardcore for adult films, and this was just beginning to penetrate NYC at this point (no pun intended,…
Avon 42 | Avon at the Love | Capri Cinema (NYC) | Circus Cinema (NYC) | Fifty on Fridays | Melba | New York City | Penn Garden TheatreFIFTY ON FRIDAY – CHRISTMAS EVE 1971 – NYC
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For many of you connoisseurs of smut The Dragon Art Theatre, made famous by Something Weird Video series of the same name, and the usage of the Donn Davison’s introduction to those videos (first on VHS, then DVD and DVD-R, and now also downloadable, for now…), is not an unfamiliar name. And while a certain mythos has grown up around it, I submit little is actually known of the Dragon Art Theatre itself, and what does seem to “known” is at least in part completely wrong.
FIFTY ON FRIDAYS – September 25, 1970 – LA TIMES
From time to time on Fridays we’ll be posting things that happened exactly 50 years previously (we say “from time to time” because we know ourselves to well to commit to every week). These will typically focus on something in the Smut World, more often than not ads for films and shows in a particular…
42nd Street Cinema | 47th Street Playhouse | 49th Street Playhouse | 50th Street Cinema | Avon at the Hudson | Cameo Art | Capri Cinema (NYC) | Eros 1 | Eros 2 | Fifty on Fridays | Masque | Melba | Mermaid | Mini Cinema (NYC) | New York City | NYC | Theaters | TivoliFIFTY ON FRIDAYS – JUNE 18, 1971 – NY Times
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