Mucky Melbourne

:crazyhorse: its the longest running cinema in the cbd of Melbourne it was originally a coffee house opened 1952 to play mainly newsreel originally had 234 seats, now its 100 located in the basement of Carlow House, which was designed by architect Harry Norris in 1939 name changed from The Star Newsreel Theatre to Star Theatrette (1963) then to Crazyhorse (1985) 1963 started screening feature films, the 1st was "Varietease" (starring Betty Page), then spent 20 years playing mainly exploitation and sexploitation films closed for repairs after a fire in 2007 people have been known to buy a ticket on a weekend night and have a snooze down the back while waiting for the first trains to start open 24 hours from Thursday morning to Sunday night 6 new movies weekly - changed each Friday morning Live on stage strip shows - every hour, on the hour from 11am daily Cinema ticket   provides all day, multiple entry access. :me & the crazyhorse: I've only vis

Why am I doing this blog? I'll tell you a little story. A while ago I was at a bar chatting with friends and made a comment about finding out that the Crazy Horse cinema was the CBDs longest running cinemas, we chatted about porn cinemas and porn shops and which one had closed, which one were still around. I made a comment that someone should do a book or something about Melbourne's adult entertainment history. They all turned to me and said I should do it. And that's how it started. First it was just porn shops and cinemas, when they opened and what was there before them. Then while researching in the state library's newspaper archives I found lots of other info about censorship, protests, outrage, etc. You know, the usual stuff tabloid journalism thrives off.  The more I dug, the more interesting it became. Ive read a few books, one called Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne (by Graham Willett) and another Madame Brussels, this moral pandemonium (by L.M. Robinson) and