Adult Movie Theatres in Fort Worth

What is still open

Dreamers at 6616 Oak Crest Drive West in Forest Hill, (817) 516-7708, is open twenty-four hours and is the closest thing to an old-style place here. It is still a shop. A customer wrote that the staff are helpful and then added the thing that sums up this city: they wished it had a movie theatre, or a private room, or anything a couple could do once the shopping was finished.

Everything else is retail and much of it is good retail. Velvet Box has three branches, and one of its own reviewers puts it plainly: you will not find videos, peep shows or arcade booths there. There is a Hustler Hollywood, a Sara’s Secret, two Adam & Eve shops and a Romance Store out on the interstate.

If you want a room, the answer in this metroplex is Dallas.

Five names in eight years

707 Main Street was an entertainment address for nearly forty years, and for the last decade of that it was a cinema the city kept raiding. It changed its name whenever it had to.

A dollar to get around the law

The detail worth keeping is the membership. The operators sold memberships to the Fort Worth house for one dollar, which was an attempt to get round local obscenity enforcement.

The logic is that a private club showing a film to its members is doing something different from a cinema selling tickets to the public. Courts across the country took various views of that, and a dollar is the smallest sum that makes the paperwork real.

It did not work for long. The advertising stopped on 2 March 1975, probably after one of about a dozen raids, and although the place reopened in the August as the 707 it had two years left. It closed on 31 December 1977, trading in its final ten days under yet another name while it sold off the stock.

The building went with the whole block, replaced by the Continental Plaza tower. The operators merged with another and moved what was left of the business out of downtown.

And a drive-in, which became a driving range

The Riverside on Northeast 28th Street spent its last years showing unrated adult films outdoors and closed on 19 December 1988. It was demolished and a golf driving range was built on the site, which is one of the more literal land-use changes in this directory.