(This only partially happened who wanted to go down to the dicey Tenderloin, when you could go to Folsom or Castro St. A few months into my employment, new owners, or at least new managers, from Chicago, came in and did a makeover, trying to transform it into a “hot” club that would attract a younger, trendier crowd. It was then a run-down porno theater catering mostly to old men. When I began in 1981, the theater was called The Screening Room and had been for some time. I was a cashier/projectionist there in 1981-1982.
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It was not called the Campus in the early ‘80s. By 1986, it had been renamed Savages Theatre, still screening all-male XXX films> > De Renzy, also a prominant pornographic filmmaker between 1967-early 2000’s, would run the Screening Room until the early 1980’s, when it converted to gay porn and later gay live shows under the name of the Campus All-Male Theater.
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Around 2010 it became a sex club named the Power Exchange. It then operated as a ‘gentleman’s club’ known as Pink Diamonds. By 1986, it was still screening all-male XXX films.Īn operator changed the place to a female strip club called Chez Paree, which met some opposition from a pastor who is operating a religious school next door. The success of this theatre would lead to De Renzy operating other theatres in San Francisco for a time: North Beach Movie(another storefront theatre), Presidio Theatre (converting this neighborhood art theatre into a porn house), Centre Theatre (a Market Street second-run house converted into hard porn), and briefly the Regal Theatre on Market Street (converting from grindhouse to porn house–he operated it for about a year before the Mitchell Brothers took over–Incidentially, the Mitchells started their O'Farrell Theatre after seeing how successful the Screening Room was doing.)ĭe Renzy, also a prominant pornographic filmmaker between 1967-early-2000’s, would run the Screening Room until the early-1980’s, when it converted to gay porn as Savages Theatre on Septemand later gay live shows under the name of the Campus All-Male Theatre. This feature, premiered at his North Beach Movie, before transfering to the Screening Room, where it grossed $25,000 in its first week in exhibition (It would eventually gross over $2 million.) In 1970, theater owner Alex DeRenzy exhibited what was the first full-length hard porn feature, a “documentary” called “Pornography in Denmark: A New Approach”. (Numerous other “storefront” theatres would open in the late-1960’s and 1970’s throughout San Francisco and several other cities.) Initially, the program would consist of 16mm silent loops with a record providing musical accompliment, but eventually 16mm full-length features would take off. It reopened on Mawith “The Vampire Goes Courting” as one of the first theatres in San Francisco that showed hardcore porn. I operated for a couple of months then closed down.
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This converted storefront opened as the Screening Room on Apwith “Sylvia’s Girls” & “Girls-A-Poppin”.