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Technology now puts practically any vice into the palms of our hands, but Dallas used to be pimpled with spicy movie theaters.
We knew Downtown and East Dallas had grindhouses. But who knew there was one at the Plaza at Preston Center?
This 1976 news story by WFAA features two theaters that showed rated-X movies in what the story describes as University Park.
One was the Fine Arts Theater at Snider Plaza, which started out as the Varsity Theater in 1927.
The other was Preston 2 Theatre. Old advertisements list its address at 4011 Villanova, which is now the site of Muchacho.
Families in the neighborhood, obviously, wanted the theaters to stop showing “high-grade soft-core pornography,” as the reporter calls it.
Preston 2 didn’t just show skin flicks, though. A 1978 brief mentions a midnight showing of Top Hat.
