Drake Theatre
7566 Melrose Avenue,
Hollywood,
Los Angeles,
CA
90046
7566 Melrose Avenue,
Hollywood,
Los Angeles,
CA
90046
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Another long gone adult cinema. Initially screening straight adult movies, it went over to gay male adult movies in around 1975/1976.
In 1977 the Drake Theatre was listed in the Bob Damron Address Book as operating as a gay male adult theatre. It was later known as the Aladdin Theatre.
After closing it became an adult bookstore & video store, which closed in early-2008.
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It’s now Drake’s Books, an adult bookstore.
Ah, I have been here more then once since it’s a bookstore.
Feature on 9/15/74: “Where Couples Gather”. Advertised as 24 hour theater.
Here is an LA Times ad from February 1975:
http://tinyurl.com/2nfnbs
This theatre was also called THE ALADDIN and ran gay porn from the 70s into the early 80s
DRAKES is now closed
Here is a September 1973 ad from the LA Times. Two features plus short subjects. No newsreel or cartoon, though. Proofreading extra:
http://tinyurl.com/2w933a
90046 is the zip code for this theatre.