Enjoying the Real Show in a Porn Theater

The Oak Theater on Western Avenue in Chicago was another one of those old Art Deco movie houses that went adult in the mid-70's when malls and multiscreen cineplexes were being discovered. I spent a lot of time in the Oak, back in the day, because in addition to first class adult movies, they had strippers on stage every three hours or so. Guys would crowd down around the stage, getting as close as they could, hoping to catch a whif, or feel, of a willing lady. There were usually three girls. Two locals then a "star". I met Hyapatia Lee there well before she went to Californina and became a porn star.

One night a week, they would even host an amateur night, when wives and girlfriends would come down to expose it, shake it and otherwise use it to their best advantage to win a small cash prize. The chance for seeing something you weren't "supposed to" was always greatest on amateur night. That was the night I usually went, though I went other times as well.