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Here is the Metro in 1983:
http://tinyurl.com/mrhpsx

Here is part of an April 1977 article from the Van Nuys Valley News:

Several hundred picketers protested in front of Lankershim Theater in North Hollywood Friday over the X-rated films shown there. The demonstration was organized by a group calling itself Citizens for Decency, and included parents, teenagers and children. Claudia Clark, one of the leaders of the demonstration, said the group was upset because the theater formerly showed family films until it was purchased by the Pussycat Theater chain in December.

Mrs. Clark said the movie house was the only local theater for children in the area and other protestors complained that the theater was located within several blocks of an elementary and a junior high school. There were scores of signs at the demonstration, declaring “Pornography Is Sick,” “Keep Our Sewers Underground,” “Protect Our Children From Porno Filth” and “Crime, Rape and Murder Next.”

Jim Winters, an aide to Councilman Ernani Bernardi, Seventh District, said the local councilman was “supporting these people in their activity.” Despite the protest demonstration, Mark Edelman, district supervisor for the Pussycat Theaters, said he had “no objections” to the picketers.

Edelman claimed that the theater was losing money by showing the family films before it was bought out. “This theater was operating way in the red but we’ve done quite well” by showing the adult films. He also disputed charges that the X-rated pictures led to an increase in crime and noted that a commission on pornography established by former President Richard Nixon determined that pornography did not have harmful side affects.

Los Angeles police Lt Bernie Conine said that the demonstrators had a right to protest, but also said. “As I understand it. there’s nothing illegal about the theater.”

Here is a June 1973 article in the Harrisonburg (VA) Daily News Record:

Some adult movie houses and book stores closed their doors Friday or planned to change their fare in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling apparently giving police more leeway to get tough with pornography peddlers. “Closed due to uncertainty of court decision. Open when situation more stable,” read a sign on the door of the Adult Movie Arcade in downtown Louisville, Ky.

Don’s Playland a block away decided on a closeout sale. “Due to the most recent ruling by the Supreme Court, we are liquidating all stock — 50 per cent off.“ Owner Don Marsh prophesied the ruling would drive pornography back underground. He called the decision a "rape of the Constitution.” Other newsstands and bookstores displayed signs saying closed “for inventory.”

Most pornography peddlers agreed the industry was in trouble and some film houses planned to change their tastes as a result. “The law is the law. We have to abide by what they say,” said Paul Jones, manager of Today, an X-rated theater in Chicago. “We’ll just have to go to something else. We’ll go to the films with less sex and black films.”

Joseph Boardman, advertising manager of the underground newspaper, the Los Angeles Free Press, said he alerted his sales staff that “there’s a good chance we’ll be changing our advertising policy drastically in light of the Supreme Court ruling.” “If they (the police) start hasseling us …we’ll take the nudies out…”

Here are some 2009 restoration photos:
http://tinyurl.com/nt3ftk

Thanks. I posted the 1980 photo on the Norwood page.

Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/nehnnj

Here is a 1982 photo. The city is misidentified:
http://tinyurl.com/p3txvv

Here are some 1982 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/qzvle9
http://tinyurl.com/o9fzj2

Here is a 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/okl5f2

This is the current occupant:
http://www.applausedinnertheatre.ca/

The pizza website has some more information about the building:
http://tinyurl.com/qc6mg5

Here is a site for the theater troupe that currently uses the building:
http://www.festivaltheatre.org/

Here is a 1984 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/m7nk3c