River Oaks Theatre

As the River Oaks Theatre adult cinema, the venue opened with Denyse Roland in “The D(irty) Girls” and Marla Ellis “Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures” (upper left) on January 4, 1967. As the ads state, the River Oaks was in River Oaks - in case there was any confusion.

It may well have ended at the River Oaks in River Oaks with Karen Drake in “The House of Cats” and Janet Damon in “The Fat Black Pussycat” (bottom right). Protests were abundant in January and February of 1967 and once the adult movies were gone, everybody knew that no other type of film would draw attention to the River Oaks which was demolished two years later.