Baltimore’s Last Classic Porn Theater Bites the Dust

One by one, the nation’s classic porn theaters “which opened in 1942 and switched to porn in 1972, has been struggling for years, are calling it a day and closing shop, resigned to their fate as memories of a bygone era when real men jerked off to porn in the company of other real men. In Baltimore, whose criminal soul was so perfectly memorialized by The Wire, one last emporium held its ground until it could no longer deny the imperative of time. As reported in the Baltimore Business Journal, “The Apex Theatre, an adult movie house that has somehow survived VCRs, DVD players and the Internet, will be auctioned on Oct. 11 and is likely to see redevelopment.


The real estate agent brokering the property, Andy Billig of AJ Billig & Co, told the Journal he’s received around a dozen or so inquiries about the place, with ideas ranging from “turning it into a performance venue to apartments.”