21st Adult Theatre
2039 Collins Avenue,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
2039 Collins Avenue,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Previous Names: Fine Arts Theatre, 21st Street Theatre
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Located across the street from the Public Library. The Fine Arts Theatre was opened on June 13, 1963 with Franciose Arnoul in “Tales of Paris” & Buddy Hackett in “The Shoes”. On December 21, 1969 it was renamed 21st Street Theatre and went over to screening adult movies, the first program was “Head Mistress” & “BRICK Doll House”. In 1970 it briefly went first run screening Jack Palance & Omar Sharif in “Che!” after the local chains would not touch the film for fear of retribution from the politically charged Cuban community.
On May 23, 1973 it was twinned and screened gay adult male movies in screen 1 and straight adult movies in screen 2, renamed 21st Adult Theatre. This non-descript porn outlet closed in the mid-1990’s with one admission for both screens. Wolfies was across the street.
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This opened as the Fine Arts in 1963 with Jewish Vaudeville and a movie. It slowly moved to burlesque and soft-core porn films and was the 21st Street theatre by 1969.
That must have been a hostile crowd for Che!. In the real Che’s native Argentina, audience members would throw motolov cocktails at the screen from their disgust of the film.
The actual address was 2039 Collins Avenue.
The Fine Arts theatre at 2039 Collins opened on June 13th, 1963 with “Tales of Paris” and “The Shoes” with Buddy Hackett. Grand opening ad posted.
This reopened as the 21st Street theatre on December 21st, 1969 with an adult double bill. Grand opening ad uploaded.
Reopened as a twin cinema on May 23rd, 1973 with a male program on no. 1 and female and male on no. 2. Grand opening ad posted.
The theater closed sometime in the mid 90’s I believe. Patrons used to exit the two theaters to a small dimly lit area behind the two theaters to … socialize … with other patrons (ahem). The tiny restrooms were upstairs at the end of a narrow hall (nothing else upstairs, no balcony or anything). Wolfie’s closed March 30, 2008 BTW.