Adult Movie Theatres in Augusta

What is still open

Nothing this directory counts, on either side of the river. One of our searches, worded for an adult theatre arcade, returned exactly one business in the whole metro, and it was the shop whose arcade has closed. The index still points at the room that is not there.

Mae Video at 5780 Jefferson Davis Highway in North Augusta, (803) 441-4100, trades ten in the morning until midnight and two at weekends, and is the subject of the next section. The arcade cost ten dollars on a card and it is shut.

X-Mart Adult Supercenter at 1367 Gordon Highway, (706) 724-0672, is open twenty-four hours, every day of the year, which makes it one of very few in this directory that never shuts. It has no booths and never has. It does have a metal detector on the door, a bag rule, two ID checks and cameras covering the whole car park, and the owner will tell you why: he says his staff are trained to spot and handle strange behaviour and have a view of every angle. A customer in July 2025 wrote that the area could be seen as sketchy but that he shopped at ease because he could watch his own car on the monitor.

Lucy’s Love Shop at 3241 Washington Road is the other name locals use, and it is a shop. The nearest rooms we can verify are a long way out, and we have set out exactly where, and how far, further down this page.

Timothy, who asked twelve times

There is one review of Mae Video that exists in twelve versions. The man who wrote it lives in North Augusta. Yelp keeps every earlier draft underneath the current one, so you can read thirteen months of him in order.

Read what he is actually doing. He starts by asking a question of a business. When that gets nothing he starts asking the other customers. When that gets nothing he starts leaving his email address, seven times in all, in a public review box, under his own name, on the off chance that a stranger who misses the same room will write to him.

And he tells you the cause himself, twice, without being asked. They stopped fixing the machines. Instead of repairing them they chose to close it down. No ordinance, no police, no landlord. A repair bill that was bigger than the takings.

That is the same thing that happened in Dayton, where you can watch an arcade close across three customer reviews twenty-one months apart. The difference is that Dayton is told from outside, by people who noticed in passing. This one is told from inside, by the person it happened to, in real time, while he was still hoping.

The last version is the one that gets you. In August 2025 he stops asking anybody anything. He does not mention the email address, or Barnwell, or Allendale, or a private theatre. He writes one line about how since they closed the arcade it seems like a boring place, and he has not touched it since.

The man who told a stranger where to drive

Across the river on Gordon Highway, somebody asked the owner of X-Mart the same question Timothy has been asking. The answer is one of the most generous things we have found on this site.

Asked whether there were viewing booths, the owner said no, there are none here. Then he said that there is an X-Mart in Macon, Georgia that does have them, that they are open twenty-four seven as well, and he gave the man the street address. A second person asked the same thing. He answered again, at more length, with the address, the suite number, the telephone number, and the detail that the booths in that store are open around the clock except from about four until five in the morning, for maintenance.

A shopkeeper in Augusta sent a customer a hundred and forty-seven miles down the road to a competitor, and told him when the cleaning happens so he would not waste the trip.

And then nobody found it. Since those two answers, four more men have asked the same question on that same listing. Is there an arcade. Do you have a video arcade. Have a theatre. Is there a video arcade. All four are sitting there with no reply under them, while every question about merchandise gets a cheerful paragraph back, because the answer they want was given years ago and is now on the second page of the questions where nobody scrolls.

So, for Timothy, and for the four of them. The nearest booths we can verify are the X-Mart at 2025 Emery Highway, Macon, about two and a half hours west, and the Lion’s Den arcade at Batesburg-Leesville, about fifty miles up the road towards Columbia, where a five dollar card buys twenty minutes and the operator will tell you the rules in writing. Neither is in Allendale or Barnwell. There is nothing in Allendale or Barnwell.

Two states, one town

Augusta is in Georgia. North Augusta is in South Carolina. The Savannah River runs between them and people cross it without thinking about it, which means this metro is governed twice.

On the Georgia side, the city’s zoning confines adult entertainment establishments to light industrial and heavy industrial land and keeps them a thousand feet from churches, schools, child care, parks, cemeteries and houses. That is the ordinary American shape of this rule and it is gentler than Greenville’s fifteen hundred feet. We read it on a third-party code site rather than the city’s own, so treat the detail as reported rather than checked.

One correction worth making before anybody carries it across the river. Our Greenville page sets out a county ordinance that bans these businesses from opening on a Sunday at all. That is Greenville County’s rule. South Carolina does this county by county, and North Augusta is in Aiken County, not Greenville. Mae Video trades on Sundays, ten in the morning until midnight, which settles it.

555 Broad Street, probably

We could not find a documented adult cinema in Augusta, and we want to be careful about the one candidate.

The Art Theatre stood at 555 Broad Street with one screen and a hundred and thirty-five seats, which would make it among the smallest rooms in this directory. It is closed and demolished. Contributors have compiled a run of its bookings from 1967 to 1971 and several of them carry an X certificate, including Poor Cow and Fanny Hill. One of them asks out loud whether X-rated films were being passed off there as art films.

That is reader-compiled listings and a question, not a history. We have no proprietor, no policy change, no closing date and no newspaper. If somebody in Augusta knows what the Art was actually doing between 1967 and 1971, that is a gap worth filling, and the Chronicle archive is where it would be.