Cameo Twin Cinema XXX

I have been in this theater. They are still showing porn movies. Too bad they won't let anyone photograph the place ( I asked). You go up a flight of stairs and make a sharp right. There is a ticket booth with a turnstyle. You pay your $8.00 dollars and push the turnstyle and you are in the 'lobby'. They have 3 television sets: One is tunned to regular television, the to other is showing gay porn (and for some reason it is hidden behind a candy machine), and the third is playing 'straight' porn. On the left hand is the door that leads to the 'gay' porn. It is very dark and it has less than 100 seats.

There is a lot of sexual activity going on in the theaters. The room showing 'straight' porn is much larger. All in all it is a very tacky place.
The Little Theater which is located a few blocks before the Cameo is in much better condition.

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I'm a little confused the entrance is on the second floor? I think the owners of the Cinema King's Highway own this also.

Listed in the 1941 edition of Film Daily Yearbook as the Robert Treat Theatre with a seating capacity given as 600.

A Wurlitzer organ, opus 873, was installed in the Treat theater on 8/7/1924.

Hey RobertR. You first enter through a door that is on street level and you climb a two short flights to the 'ticket booth'.

I still see ads for this place in the Daily News. I will definitely check it out.

This is not the treat theatre per say. The ordinal treat was just around the corner where the ATT offices are now. The old place was torn down to make room for the ATT high-rise office buildings. I am pretty sure that the same owner open up this new place as I can remember the same old white woman working there taking tickets in the lat 80’s. I am not sure of the exact date I first whent to the old treat but I can say it was when I was still in high school so before 1977. That whole area was quite the place with many strip bars and other delights to keep any 16/17 year old boy busy. This was of course all pre AIDS.

I spoke to my friend who is a Newark cop and he informed me that this place is a crack house that caters mostly to homos

If "Izzy" is correct, the status of the theatre should be changed to "demolished."

Here is a photo of the place

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For one, the person who would close it down needs to get his jollies someplace. Second, why would you want to close it down? I find the people very friendly and the atmosphere very light. Besides, I always find someone to discuss the game being watched. Where can you beat sitting in an old worn out chair, turn to the left and watch the game, turn to the right and watch all the hot action.

Comon Scott, lighten up.

I thought this was a nice forum where I could share memories and information about old movie house. I do not like the direction this thread has twisted and turn into.

If your idea of a good time is spending hours in some dark dank shit hole of a crack den getting passed from aids infested fag to aids infested fag fine.

BUT!

Please go else where to trade you sad sad stories.

Old theaters that are in use as sexually-oriented businesses are like bookmarks. They keep these old single screen theaters operating and as long as they are alive there is a chance (however small) of a future rehab. Frankly, I could care less what consenting adults do in such facilities. I'm not interested in it so I stay away. I would make the same suggestion to those who appear deeply offended by the very existance of such activities.

Another thought ---- I absolutely agree with saps concerning the impropriety (did I get that right?) of posting homophobic remarks on this website. I'm all for free speech but this is just not the place. Remember, free speech does not cover yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.

Has it ever been definitely established that the current premises are actually the Cameo Theatre? Something was posted here some time ago that suggested that the Cameo had been demolished, and that its final porno management moved its business nearby to another building that had never been a theatre.

Recent postings at this listing suggest that Cinema Treasures needs to tighten up its membership requirements to prevent people from joining up just to exchange information of a sexual nature. One of the ways to do that is to stop the use of pseudonyms. "horny" and "idopay" have each posted only one message so far. They may or may not be the same person, but they are definitely here under false pretenses, and tarnishing the credibility of Cinema Treasures.

I agree with you, Warren. Almost every entry on this page concerns availability for some kind of sexual adventure. I'm not a prude, but this isn't the site for that kind of thing. There about eight million other sites that would suffice.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more, guys. I've removed all the off-topic/sexual comments.

Note to adult theater patrons: Cinema Treasures isn't the place to discuss such topics. If you post anything that is of a sexual nature, we'll delete your comment and account without warning.

but isn't a comment of what the theater has become important when discussing the history...some of what is said may be sexual but some is just a frank telling of the truth...the theater is there strictly for porn and whatever happens in the seats...

I thought that this type of directory advertising had ended decades ago. I was quite surprised to find it in YESTERDAY's NY Daily News. And not in the Entertainment section, but buried in a corner of the Sports pages at the back of the newspaper:
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