a public movie theater... which brought back memories of the days of yesteryear...  hee hee!

below is a recap of that post!
Outside of NYC - where block long lines formed to see deep throat, and even Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon bragged about seeing the movie "Deep Throat"... and the San Fran crowd was very comfortable with even more... the "rest of the country" was less than happy about theaters showing Deep Throat... you have to remember - this was the first xxx movie that jumped into the popular culture... the others were little more than 16 mm "loops" some with sound, some in B&W but most with dudes who kept their socks on (ala Spitzer).  These were shown in run down theaters (well, some were theaters - some were... well, rooms in what was a store with the walls painted black with a stand-up screen against one wall).  They advertised the movies in the "back" of the theater/movie section of the news paper... and were not "clean"!  in short, lots of dudes with raincoats frequented these theaters...  And they smelled awful.

in short, not a place you wanted to get caught in.

A separate "soft porn" line co-existed at the time with the likes of Russ Meyers... who starred such lovelies as Uschi Digard - a buxom lass who had the most amazing figure (still does), Kitten Natividad.... and other lovelies... These were also shown in theaters - and tended to be better accepted as "legit" and were by and large left alone by vice etc.

Then along came "deep throat!"  EVERYTHING CHANGED overnight.  Suddently porn was hailed as the leading edge of all that was right by the left... Freedom of expression... freedom - heck even magazines such as playboy changed...(I should also add that mainstream movies changed as well.... more boobs on screen)!!!  More XXX movie theaters were present all over the place... People realized that you could actually make MONEY from porn... and it could be accepted.... but more to the point...  the right wing became scared - of what - who knows... but they were... and so, they raided the theaters that would dare offer up such fair...

Where were most of the cases?  Tennessee, Georgia (and yup... good ole Jimmih Cahrter... was gov of Georgia when the theater in Hotlanta was raided!).... and other southern states.... some in the midwest as well... there was even a case where they equated acting in a porn movie with prostitution... IMAGINE THAT! lol!

But then, something happened... something always does!  Technology changed... it always does... affordable VCRs made it possible to possess and watch a porn movie in the privacy of your own home... This helped (believe it or not) advance the electronics industry... and has been a driver of electronic tech development since... It is no accident that the AVN awards and the AEE are in vegas following the annual Consumer Electronics Show in the same city!

Go figure.  in short, change, it was all about the fear of change.



-- Modified on 4/23/2008 1:49:17 PM

I saw my first ever porn movie, I turned 18 and I lost my virginity to a massage parlor girl. Those WERE some heady days indeed.