Petaluma & porn
2022-08-20 18:30:22.022178+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
When Petaluma was ‘hardcore capital’ of the Bay Area.
After the success of “I Am Curious (Yellow),” the State’s owner, Alan Finlay, began rotating X-rated films into the theater’s schedule one week per month. He did the same at the Parkway, the drive-in theater he owned at the north end of town beside the freeway in Denman Flats (today’s Petaluma Golf Center). The Midway, a new drive-in theater along the freeway south of town, soon followed.
The article says that those three theaters made Petaluma the only town in the North Bay showing porn, and the only town in the Bay Area showing it outdoors.