Cinema

45 W. Broadway,
Salt Lake City, UT 84101

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rivest266
rivest266 on April 3, 2022 at 6:50 am

Opened as Cinema on February 14th, 1969 and reopened as the Cinema in Your Face! on May 15th, 1987. Grand opening ads posted.

rivest266
rivest266 on February 21, 2010 at 5:03 pm

In 1969 the LDS-owned Deseret News accepted ads for this adult cinema. have a look at this page. View link

utahguy
utahguy on February 21, 2005 at 6:50 pm

By 1986, the Cinema may have been the last “porner” in Utah. but in its last years, the former State Theater operated as the Esquire Theatre and showed porn, at least through December, 1972, when I left Salt Lake for the navy. There was also another little porner called The Palace that operated for some time around the late ‘60s-early '70s. I think it was in the same general area as the Cinema.

scottfavareille
scottfavareille on December 27, 2004 at 10:30 am

This was the only porn theater in Utah. It had closed in 1986(prior to Cinema in Your Face) as a porn theater and actually got a write-up in Variety as “Utah’s Only Porner Shuts For Good”. (Today, it is almost impossible to get porn in Utah, even by mail-order. At the time this theater operated, porn videos were illegal to rent or buy in Utah.)