Flick Theatre
719 E. Fremont Street,
Las Vegas,
NV
89101
719 E. Fremont Street,
Las Vegas,
NV
89101
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Located near downtown Las Vegas. Opened in November 1969 screening independent movies. From 1970 the Flick Theatre ran pornographic fare. It was twinned in early-1976. By August of 1980, when I visited the theatre, the twin was running a double feature of "Deep Throat" & "Devil in Miss Jones" on one screen and "Debbie Does Dallas" & "Behind the Green Door" on the other.
I have no other history on the Flick Theatre. A search of its address (which I gleaned from the CinemaTour site) showed City Center Laundromat occupying the building in the mid-2000’s. It became a 99cent store. When viewed in January 2009, the building was standing empty and unused. It had been demolished by June 2017.
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The last few years it was open the left side showed xxx films and the right side allowed people to take in sleeping bags, blankets,… to sleep anywhere-in seats, in the aisles, on the floor behind the screen while non x-rated films were projected on the screen. Once everyday everyone had to leave so they could clean it. Same fee on both sides.
First time there or any porno theater was December 1977 on a two-night bus trip. I must have walked passed it 3 or 4 times before going inside.
Opened with “An evening with the Underground” with offbeat films. Adult programming started in 1970. Grand opening ad posted.
Two screens early in 1976. Opened November 1969.
“Deep Throat” promotional ambulance, August 1980 photo added courtesy Gerard Legrand.
Several years back, I did some research - it was a project of mine on past Vegas movie theatres - particularly in the ‘60s & '70’s. As posted above, the Flick opened in (“69, DUDE!” - Bill & Ted). And for the first month or so, it started showing independent features - the first one being a return engagement of the Bob Dylan documentary “Dont Look Back” {NO - that’s NOT a typo on the word Dont}. (“Dont Look Back” originally had it’s 1st-run engagement in either '67 or '68 at the Guild Theatre.) And the Flick was originally a single screen theatre. After it’s 1st-run engagement at the Cinema Arts (a porno house “down the street” from McCarran Airport), the Flick became the permanent Vegas home for Linda Lovelace & “DEEP THROAT” - for literally years, it was shown with that other porn “classic” “The Devil & Miss Jones” - I guess that was theatre 1. (There was “a Vegas tradition” as well - being when one turned 18, you went to the Flick to see your first porno flick{s} - namely “DEEP THROAT” & “The Devil & Miss Jones”). And for years in theatre 2 was either “Insatiable” with Marilyn Chambers, or “Debbie Does Dallas” - at one point in time, the Flick ended up running both of these together. So, in the long run, these were your choices - “DEEP THOAT” & The Devil & Miss Jones", or “Insatiable”& “Debbie Does Dallas” - rarely anything else. Ok - question here - how many of you actually saw “DEEP THOAT” more than once? Me - at least twice. But let’s be honest here - Linda Lovelace wasn’t that good-looking and she couldn’t act herself outta a paper bag. But I’m guessing that it did its business because of what Linda actually did. (Hence the title… . . And the guys were probably going - “SHEESH, I wish my wife / girlfriend could/would do that to me!”
The image with the ambulance is not a photo. It is taken from the 1978 pornographic movie “Red Heat”.
Thank you for the clarification. I re-posted it as “Screen grab from “Red Heat” 1976, credit Ray Dennis Steckler, director, screenplay & producer.“ As I could find no production company name to credit. 1978 was apparently one of several re-releases it had before it made it’s way to DVD. I always do a reverse image search to find the original credited sources of photos, but this one came up with zero then and now.
I don’t see my comments from 2020 so I’ll mention again that I was one of the projectionists and ticket takers at the Flick. As a 22 year old who just came into town, I was looking for a second job and so I worked the midnight shift. I was told that if a cop showed his badge that he got in for free. There was a buzzer on the front door so if I was changing reels, I knew that I had to hustle back down to take a ticket. I was there approximately summer of 71 and it was only a single theater at that time. I know that there was an adult bookstore right next door. I was excited to know that I got to watch all the free porn that I wanted, but it didn’t take long to get really bored watching the same 6 actors doing the same 6 things. And since I worked my regular job during the day and had to work this boring job at night, it was hard to stay awake and every once in awhile I would fall asleep in the projection booth and guys would be banging on the wall and yelling to “change the reel”! because it had run out and was just going round and round. And we showed these same films over and over and they would wear out and of course back then, this was 32mm big reels and I would have to splice the broken film while it was running without getting piles of film all over the floor. Sometimes I would fall asleep and wake up to find that the film have broken and that I had hundreds of feet of film just piling onto the floor. This wasn’t an enjoyable job and I didn’t last long, maybe a couple of months at best, but it is one of those memories that you don’t forget and typically don’t share or brag about.
PS. And to the person that said that this was a large venue, I don’t know where you were at, but as a single small theater, it was just a hole in the wall and pretty damn small. BTW, lets think about this back then, guys were doing their business in there and the place smelled like…well you get the idea. If I didn’t work there, I wouldn’t go there.