Faust Theater

kencmcintyre on January 9, 2009 at 4:41 pm

Here are excerpts from three items in local papers dated, respectively, 8/23/88, 3/7/89 and 5/11/95:

Robber Stabs Man at Faust Theater

The son of the Faust Theater’s owner was wounded by a knife-wielding robber who held up the sex-oriented theater in St. Paul Monday afternoon. Peter Hafiz, 27, of Woodbury, was taken to St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center after the 4:50 p.m. incident and was listed last night in serious condition. Hafiz’s father, Frank, owns the theater at University Av. and Dale St. The robber fled with an undetermined amount of cash, police Capt. Stephen Roscoe said.

Protest, Melee Mark Closing Day at Faust Theatre

The last day of business at St. Paul’s Faust Theatre was disrupted Monday when a pornography protest organized for TV coverage went awry and a TV photographer was injured in a fight with Faust employees after they had wrestled him out of the theater. Earlier, another photographer and several protesters had been doused with water by a Faust employee. When they went inside the building to complain, two other TV photographers followed to videotape the encounter.

ST. PAUL COUNCIL VOTES TO RAZE `NOTORIOUS' FAUST THEATRE IN COMMUNITY CLEANUP BID

For Martin O. Weddington, who has lived near the corner of Dale Street and University Avenue for decades, the Faust Theatre brings back both pleasant and disturbing memories. When he was a youngster, he enjoyed going to the movies there. Years later, Weddington joined the neighborhood residents who picketed the “notorious Faust”, a sex emporium featuring movies, live and video peep shows, exotic dancing, and sexually-oriented books and paraphernalia.

lostmemory on November 19, 2009 at 10:28 am

The Faust Theater opened in 1912.

packer on January 11, 2012 at 9:17 pm

It was later operated by Ferris Alexander, the Twin Cities reputed porn king. Was a cool place, too bad it couldn’t have stayed family friendly