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Adult Movie Theatres in Buffalo

New York · last checked 17 October 2026

Buffalo has something almost nowhere else on this site has: a real screening room that is open right now, at any hour. Not booths, a room with couches, couples only, two miles north of downtown on Elmwood Avenue. Downtown itself has nothing, because the city cleared this trade off Main Street in 1967 and then off Chippewa Street on purpose.

What is still open

Video Liquidators, Elmwood

Theatre

1770 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14207

Has
A couples-only viewing room, about twenty couches
Entry
Tickets for the room bought at the counter
Hours
Open 24 hours
Phone
(716) 874-7223

A big shop at the front with a separate room behind it. You buy a ticket for the room, go in, and sit down. Couples describe arriving around eleven at night, finding a handful of other people, a film playing, and taking it from there at whatever pace suits them.

It is not always busy, and the regulars say so themselves. One couple went for their first couples night in January 2025 and spent an hour and a half with almost nobody else there. They said they would try again. Everyone who writes about it mentions the staff by name and says the place is clean, which for this kind of venue is the review that counts.

Two practical notes from people who go. The sound of the film is loud, and there is a tip jar at the counter that the night staff rely on.

Last checked 16 October 2026 · Reviewed again in February 2026, couples night described January 2025

The same company’s other shop at 1578 Clinton Street, (716) 826-5996, has movie booths rather than a room. The last account of them we can date is from September 2020, which is too old for us to count it, and no current hours are published. Named here, and worth a phone call.

Pandora’s Boxxx at 1467 Seneca Street is a shop, open till midnight and plainly alive. Adult Galaxy on Niagara Falls Boulevard is a shop too, and a customer once praised it specifically for having no booths, unlike the places downtown. Neither counted.

Pushed north twice

  1. 327 Main Streetto 1967

    The Palace Burlesk, centre of Shelton Square. Last live show 6 April 1967, then the whole block came down for office towers.

  2. Chippewa Street1970s

    Topless bars and the city's red light district. Police walked it as a beat in 1977.

  3. Chippewa Street1990s on

    Converted on purpose into the entertainment district it is now. Hotels, restaurants, clubs.

  4. 1770 Elmwood Avenuetoday

    Two miles north of downtown, open all night, with a room full of couches.

Downtown cleared it twice. It did not stop, it moved north.

6 April 1967

The Palace opened at 327 Main Street in February 1915 and ran for half a century. It was known as a burlesque house, although its bills were mostly vaudeville, and it was the centre of Shelton Square, which Buffalo called its Times Square.

It is rare to be able to date the end of an era to a day, and here you can. The last live show at the Palace was on 6 April 1967. Shelton Square went with it. The tightly packed century-old blocks were cleared for the Main Place Tower, the M&T building, and a strip of green along Main at Church where the theatre had stood.

One record says the building carried on as an adult cinema until 1977. The main entry for it says 1967. We could not settle which is right, so the page says both and claims neither.

Chippewa Street, and the decision to end it

What replaced Shelton Square was Chippewa Street. A photographic essay of the street in 1975 shows it lined with topless bars, the buildings run down. In 1977 two Franklin Station officers walked it as their beat, and the contemporary description of what they were walking through is unambiguous: this was the red light district.

It did not fade. It was converted. The historian Mark Goldman pushed the idea of turning Chippewa from a red light district into the city’s entertainment centre, and that is exactly what happened. The street now holds hotels, restaurants and nightclubs, and the tourist boards describe the transformation with some pride.

Which is the honest answer to why a search for an adult theatre in Buffalo returns nothing downtown. Twice the city decided those blocks would be something else, and twice it was right about the property values. The trade did not die either time. It went north, and on Elmwood Avenue it is still open at four in the morning.

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