Does anyone remember when the Plaza was a porno theater?

Actually Medussa I have a great story about the Court Street movie theater - remind me to tell you when we next get together

I dont mind posting - it was more of an enticing way to get together with Medussa .

When I was a teenager we used to go hang out at the promenade in Bklyn Heights. If anyone remembers that movie theater the glass doors were always covered in the front with paper. On the way home one night my friend dared me to go inside and see if they would sell me a ticket or purchase popcorn, etc. to prove I really went all the way in. Now me being about 14-15 years old I could not pass this up - so in I went - no one was in the booth so I ventured past the next set of glass doors - there was a candy booth but no candy was stocked there - so I am about to turn around and walk out and a man comes out of one of the theaters adjusting himself (it was quite visible why too) we look at each other and I realize it is an older, married neighbor of mine. Well I was so scared and nervous that I ran out of there, grabbed my friends and sped home.

Now he always said hi and bye to me but never really acknowledged me. The next time I saw him he was practically gushing over me saying "hey Stacey how are you? How is your mom and dad, etc. and then would hand me a $5 bill" I asked him "thanks is this my hush hush money" and he just smiled embarrasingly and walked away. Well needless to say for the couple years whenever we ran into each other we would have a great little chats about our families, school, etc. and he would still give me $5. Now this was not uncommon on my block - lots of the men would play numbers, go to the OTB, play cards, and whoever hit big would give the kids on the block a couple of dollars.

Now I never said no to this money and it continued for some time. Now when I was 18 I moved into my own place and hardly saw him. During that time he moved from our old block and divorced. When I was about 19 or so I ran into him again at a restaurant where I was having dinner with this guy who I was dating at the time. We exchanged pleasantries, gossip, etc. and once he told me he was divorced I jokingly said "there goes my $5". Now only the two of us were in on the "inside joke" but he came back by staring straight at my date while addressing me and said "Well I have nothing to hide anymore – do you?" and held his hand out – to which I quietly deposited $5. Luckily I have not ran into him again while with my husband

omg, stacey, that's an AWESOME story.

there was a theater like that in miami beach (it was in what I always considered mid-beach,actually) around 72 street. anyway, it would shift, depending on what made more money, between either showing porn or second run $1 popular movies. my parents and I would go there for the $1 double features of popular movies, but sometimes we'd drive by and be like "whoa, that joint is playing ..... [porn feature] .... " and drive to the regular theater, complaining the whole time that the feature we were going to see was going to be $4.50 per person for the matinee.
and yes, the floors were incessantly sticky. I'm amazed, retrosepectively, that my parents weren't more upset about the whole situation.

Im glad you guys enjoy it -

Kate you are sooooo bad

I forgot about that one Idle. Although we used to watch the karate movies on 4th Ave and Dean (where the penticostal church is).

I did not go to PS 9 but my husband (who grew up on Underhill) did. I grew up on Wyckoff bet. Bond and Nevins and went to to PS 38on Dean bet. 3rd and Nevins and then IS 293 on Court St. I do remember Als (who doesn't) but I never went to the pinball place. My husband will probably remember it.