I worked at the Hollywood Pussycat theatre during the Heyday of Deep throat. There were 666 seats, I counted them, and they were numbered. Tickets then were $5 each. The movie was barely 63 minutes long. Quite a haul per show, considering we filled every seat for every show even to 4am when we eventually closed. There were lines around the block most days. Jim Lytell was the area manager and Malcolm Thomas/Malcolm Hardy (depending on when you asked him) was the manager. In the beginning, at least once a week, the police would come into the theater and cart the print off.. Malcom would convince the audience to stay in the theatre and within five or so mintues of the police leaving, someone would trot ‘round the corner with a new print and the show would go on. Once Linda Lovelace did make a promotional showing at the theater. She seemed nice. Then there was a scandal in which there was reputed to be a run of 100,000 duplicate tickets. We were all required to take lie detector tests. If they passed all those tickets at $5 a pop, (and I think they did) wow, someone made out! The place was lots of fun to work in, though it seemed like a circus sometimes. I have a one-sheet from Deep Throat that was used at the theatre, although it’s a bit sun bleached, I’ll cherish it forever. Anyone ever notice that Linda never bared her breasts in the film?? Occasionally Japanese tours would show up with about 50 people. The tour leader would purchase the tickets, they’d file in. sit for about 10 minutes and leave again. All in all, I loved working there.
I worked at the Hollywood Pussycat theatre during the Heyday of Deep throat. There were 666 seats, I counted them, and they were numbered. Tickets then were $5 each. The movie was barely 63 minutes long. Quite a haul per show, considering we filled every seat for every show even to 4am when we eventually closed. There were lines around the block most days. Jim Lytell was the area manager and Malcolm Thomas/Malcolm Hardy (depending on when you asked him) was the manager. In the beginning, at least once a week, the police would come into the theater and cart the print off.. Malcom would convince the audience to stay in the theatre and within five or so mintues of the police leaving, someone would trot ‘round the corner with a new print and the show would go on. Once Linda Lovelace did make a promotional showing at the theater. She seemed nice. Then there was a scandal in which there was reputed to be a run of 100,000 duplicate tickets. We were all required to take lie detector tests. If they passed all those tickets at $5 a pop, (and I think they did) wow, someone made out! The place was lots of fun to work in, though it seemed like a circus sometimes. I have a one-sheet from Deep Throat that was used at the theatre, although it’s a bit sun bleached, I’ll cherish it forever. Anyone ever notice that Linda never bared her breasts in the film?? Occasionally Japanese tours would show up with about 50 people. The tour leader would purchase the tickets, they’d file in. sit for about 10 minutes and leave again. All in all, I loved working there.