Adult Movie Theatres in Riverside

California · last checked 23 October 2026

The Inland Empire holds about four and a half million people, and three places in it have rooms. The one to know about is a twenty-four hour bookshop on Base Line Street where the booths have no doors on them and the entry is eight dollars, which is the cheapest door in this directory and the only place we have found where the door has gone altogether.

What is still open

Baseline Books

Booth arcade

25557 Base Line Street, San Bernardino, CA 92410

Hours: Open 24 hours, seven days
Entry: $8, by one account from March 2025
Booths: No doors on them
Also: Gloryholes, and films playing throughout
Busiest: Weekend nights
Phone: (909) 889-3284

Dark, loud with film soundtracks, and open all night every night. Somebody who went a fortnight ago described it as nice and dark and said you can hear the films playing everywhere, and that it is where he goes to unwind after a long week.

The booths have no doors. A customer in May 2026 went to use the lavatory at the back, found the booths open to the corridor with men standing in them looking at him, decided against it and drove home to Banning. That is not a complaint about etiquette. It is a description of the architecture.

A weekend night in April 2026 was packed, with trans women present and a woman there with her boyfriend, and a good deal going on in the booths. Somebody in April 2025 liked the place and the crowd but was too shy to join in.

And the honest warnings. The fullest account, from March 2025, is also the bleakest: eight dollars, filthy booths, gloryholes, and a crowd he described as desperate and wrecked. He meant it as a recommendation of a kind. Separately, one customer in July 2026 says he was robbed in the arcade room. That is a single uncorroborated account and we cannot check it, but if you are going at four in the morning you should know somebody has said it.

Last checked 23 October 2026 · Visited and described on 10 October 2026

Romantix

Booth arcade

3945 Market Street, Riverside, CA 92501

Has: Arcade booths behind the shop
Hours: 10am to midnight, seven days
Parking: A private lot and a back door, for discretion
Formerly: Le Sex Shoppe, with booths and tokens, in the late 1970s
Phone: (951) 788-5194

Be aware of how thin the sourcing is here. The search index carries a customer line about this being a clean, friendly place with adult arcades, and a Friday night visit around ten. We could not find that review on the listing itself, so it is probably among the filtered ones. We are counting it because the phrase is specific and because this chain demonstrably runs arcades elsewhere in this directory, and we are telling you we did not read the review in full.

What the visible reviews give you is a well-run shop: good selection, professional staff, fair prices, a private car park and a back door so you need not be seen going in.

The address is older than the sign. A customer in July 2025 wrote that his father worked here in the late seventies and early eighties, when it was Le Sex Shoppe and ran booths on tokens. He has been applying for a job here himself since 1990. Fifty years at one address, two names, and a family that has been in and out of the building across two generations.

Last checked 23 October 2026 · Arcade described in a customer review indexed for this business

The Adult Shop

Booth arcade

736 Tennessee Street, Redlands, CA 92374

From Riverside: About 25 miles east, and 10 from San Bernardino
Has: On-site viewing arcades, by the shop's own description
Booths: Bench seating, and gloryholes in the middle row
Hours: 10am to 1am, seven days
Condition: Filthy, by two accounts in 2025 and 2026
Phone: (909) 335-7070

The best-documented arcade in the Inland Empire, with forty-six reviews and a shop that advertises its viewing arcades itself. Somebody in July 2025 liked it enough to name his booth: number seven, bench seating, soft and comfortable. Somebody in August 2026 reported that the middle booths have gloryholes.

It is open until one in the morning every day of the week, and a regular in May 2026 goes on her lunch break.

Two consistent complaints. It is dirty: a customer in September 2026 said the staff are great and the arcade is filthy, in the same breath. And the arcade price went up, which in October 2025 was enough to make one regular stop going altogether. Nobody has published what the new price is.

A man in June 2026 gave the most useful summary: you can bring your girlfriend and she will be comfortable, or you can use the arcade, and it has been hit and miss for him.

Last checked 23 October 2026 · Booths and gloryholes described on 18 August 2026; arcade called filthy on 4 September 2026

Not counted. Romantix at 835 East Foothills Boulevard, Rialto, (909) 879-7398, trades 10am to 10pm and to midnight at weekends, and the search index carries a customer line about enjoying the adult arcades and the booths there too. Same caveat as above and we could not open that review either, so we have left it out of the count and named it so you can ring. Lovers in Riverside, forty-four years old and women-owned with two hundred and fourteen reviews, is a shop and a good one. Hustler Hollywood is a shop.

A booth with no door

This directory has spent forty-odd cities on one piece of wood.

San Bernardino
No doors on the booths at all.
A customer walked past them in May 2026 and left.
Colorado Springs
An unobstructed view from a staffed manager's station of every area a customer can reach.
City Code 2.4.114, printed in full.
Toledo
Booth doors cut down so there is a gap.
The operator said they learned it the hard way, after a raid.
Albany
Doors that shut, and couples allowed inside together.
The business answered the question in writing.

The same piece of wood, four ways, across four states.

San Bernardino is the end of that line. Not a door cut down to leave a gap at the bottom, not a rule about how many people may be behind it, not a sightline requirement that the manager be able to see every corner. No door.

And notice what it does to the room. The man who walked past those booths in May 2026 was not looking for anything. He had asked to use the lavatory, the staff said fine, and on the way he found himself being watched by men standing in open booths. He held it and drove home.

Eight dollars is also the cheapest entry we have recorded anywhere, against Chattanooga at eighteen and Raleigh at fifteen. You get what you pay for, and both the people who wrote about it at length said so in their different ways.

The cinema built inside another cinema

Riverside’s adult cinema was not a converted shopfront or a neighbourhood house that lost its audience. It was a second screen constructed, in 1942, inside the stage house of the 1929 Riverside Theatre. A cinema inside a cinema.

That screen was called the Lido. On 29 April 1966 it was renamed the Stage One Theatre and began showing adult films; a contributor puts it firmly at adult by 1970. In 1978 Walnut Properties took the building over and the Lido became part of the Pussycat chain, though another account has it reopening as a Pussycat on 16 July 1976 and a third gives the Riverside Pussycat as running from mid-1976.

Here is the part worth sitting with. While the Lido ran pornography inside the stage house, the main auditorium of the same building was showing Spanish-language films. One roof, two audiences, two completely different businesses, neither of them the one the building was built for.

Both halves closed around 1992. The building sat empty, the city bought it in 2006, and it reopened on 15 January 2010 as the Fox Performing Arts Center, which is what it is today.

The Pussycat chain runs through this directory. It had around thirty cinemas in California and two of them were a block apart in San Jose, where one building is now a live music room and the other became the first Camera Cinema. Riverside’s went the same way: bought by the city, restored, and reopened for touring shows.

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