Adult Movie Theatres in Sacramento
California · last checked 18 October 2026
Nothing in Sacramento has booths or a screen. The city is full of well-run adult shops and not one of them has a room behind it. That is not our reading of the listings: the owner of L’Amour Shoppe was asked directly and said so, and pointed the customer at Hayward, Fremont, Santa Clara or Salinas instead.
What is still open
Shops, and good ones. L’Amour Shoppe at 2531 Broadway, (916) 736-3467, trades from 9am to 1am. Suzie’s has two superstores in the city, and there is a Hustler Hollywood, Goldies on the downtown grid, G-Spot in Midtown and Love Etc out at Fair Oaks. All retail.
Asked on his own listing about a year ago whether there were booths to rent, the owner of L’Amour Shoppe answered that films can be rented or bought but that this branch has no video arcade, and named four other towns where his company does. The nearest is roughly ninety miles away.
Four Pussycats
The Pussycat chain was David F. Friedman and Dan Sonney’s, about thirty houses across California behind a cat-girl logo, and the same company that ran the house on the San Diego page and the one that came north to Anchorage. Sacramento had four of them.
- Esquire1219 K Street
Opened 1940, 998 seats. Pussycat from 1974 to the early 1980s.
Twinned, then offices.
- Pussycat1227 K Street
Opened 1946 as the Studio, later the Capri and the Encore. Pussycat took it on 26 December 1975.
Demolished in the late 1990s. The facade was built into the office block that replaced it.
- Sacramento Pussycat 2912 9th Street
Opened 1927 as the Plaza, later the Roxie and the World. Adult from 24 May 1969.
Closed 1975.
- Regency4940 Watt Avenue
Opened 22 November 1963 as the Coronet, 900 seats. Adult from 20 May 1976. Ran independently to late 2007.
Demolished December 2008. A Golden Corral buffet stands on the site.
The last one, and what stands there now
The Coronet opened at 4940 Watt Avenue on 22 November 1963. Nine hundred seats, designed by Herbert E. Goodpastor, the first building of a six acre commercial development. Double features, every seat a dollar. It opened with Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field and Margaret Rutherford in The Mouse on the Moon.
It started showing adult films on 20 May 1976 and became a Pussycat house that summer. When the chain went, an independent took it on and kept it running as the Regency, an adult theatre, until late 2007. One contributor who followed these closely believes it was the last former Pussycat adult house left in Northern California. That is his belief and nobody has checked it, but nothing we found contradicts it.
It came down in December 2008. There is a Golden Corral buffet on the site now.
Two more, briefly
The Cinema at 519 J Street took that name in 1966 and was showing adult films by 1969 with live burlesque on the stage between them. Its dates in the record contradict each other, so we are not going to pretend to know when it went.
The Highlander drive-in on Antelope Road had a long argument with Sacramento County about noise and about showing X-rated films outdoors, which is a fight only a drive-in can have. It closed in October 1975, and its last night was a Clint Eastwood marathon.
Sources
- Regency Theater, Cinema Treasures
- Pussycat Theatre, 1227 K Street, Cinema Treasures
- Sacramento Pussycat 2, 912 9th Street, Cinema Treasures
- Cinema Theatre, 519 J Street, Cinema Treasures
- Highlander Drive-In, Cinema Treasures
- Pussycat Theaters, Wikipedia
- L'Amour Shoppe, 2531 Broadway
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