The Wood-Six Porno Theater- Click to enlarge
The Wood-six porno theater was located at the corner of Woodward Ave and Six Mile Rd in Highland Park. You can see from the photo that it used to be the Highland Park State Bank. With the advent of the Internet most such old porno theaters have closed. The building was bought and remodeled as a straight strip club today. When I was a curious 18 year old in 1985 I ventured into the Wood-six out of curiosity. I had two "theaters" the one upstairs showed straight porn and the downstairs theater showed gay porn. I went downstairs to the gay porno theater and found it very old and creepy/dirty! There was two old guys sitting in the theater. One of them turned around and would not stop staring at me. I tried to give him the dirtiest look I could, but he just would not stop staring at me. I only stayed about a minute and got the hell out of there! Also check out my other blog: motorgay.net
That entire area of Woodward was the "porn section" tolerated/greased by the Detroit Police. The theater had to have owners who were "connected"; no police raids I ever knew of. Almost every adult business was in the 6 Mile/Woodward area.
ReplyDeleteVisited it only twice. Scared and repressed young men and filthy old queens looking for pick-ups from what I observed. Glad to say that gay people do not have to hide in trash bins like the Wood-Six!
Detroit was NEVER a gay friendly town. A shame all the gays left, so many nice homes would still be standing today.
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Well, I have to say I enjoyed this place throughout the 80's.. I hooked up with many good looking, quality men.. Yes, the few spooky ones, but I ignored and moved on.. I thank god for places like this back in those days because for guys like me, shy and all, was hard for me to recognize or know if guys were interested. In a place like this, I knew why they were there because i was there for the same thing..
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you’re saying. I had same experience in the theater, was there for exact same reason. 🥰
DeleteIt was a safe place to go at the time. I was exploring in my mid 20’s. I learned a lot and enjoyed the older men that I met there. Wish there was a similar place today.
DeleteThis place epitomizes the septic tank that Detroit has becomes.....sad.
ReplyDeleteI had fun going there back in the 70'sand early 80's. It was your typical hole in the wall the rivaled NYC's 42nd St. The place is no longer there and hasn't been there for years.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this, I went to this place once in 1996. Trashy and sleazy and scary. Actually had nude dancers who went out into the audience. It was a full house and I tripped over a guy in the aisle who was going down on someone else in the first seat in one of the rows, it was right out of "There's Something About Mary." I wish Detroit and every other city still had porn theaters, I love that sort of trash, I don't want to see more Starbucks'. But I wouldn't do anything in one of these holes, that's just disregard for your health.
ReplyDeleteIt could really be a fun spot, if you were in the right sleazy mood, which I often was in those days. I avoided the nights the dancers were there though, because that's when it got a little too nasty with hustlers, etc.
ReplyDeleteStill, I met a hot CMU student here, we went out to my van (tol'ja I was a little sleazy, but, hey, it was the '70s!) and then got together for the next few years after that everytime he was in town.
I was too young and timid to go there but remember being a kid and staring at the ad in the Free Press for the Wood Six theater. The ad featured a male's facial profile and "All Male" was listed in the ad.
ReplyDeleteIt was my first exposure to anything gay until a special on PBS.
I went there a couple of times in the 70's, and met some guys. I was about 19. I remember once I was standing against the wall in the front on Woodward, sort of with a cruising pose, but then a cop car pulled up. The cop said "Come here sweetheart." I responded "What's your problem?" He said "what are you doing here?", and I said "waiting for the bus." Right then, the Woodward bus came by, and I hopped on it. Saved! God, I hated the Detroit cops.
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I went here a couple of times with a fiance back in the early '80s. We were both into adult theaters and we only did oral and intercourse with each other. The first time we went to the Wood-6, we started upstairs. We were the only couple in the place. We had sex and the guys watched. When she was done with our having sex there, she wanted to see what the guys were doing downstairs. It was seedy and that really turned her on. The handful of guys there swarmed her (us). She asked if she could watch the guys doing something sexual and they obliged her. She asked me to lick her while she watched and I obliged her. After guys were done and she 'felt done' she let me know it was time for us to go.
ReplyDeleteI was a frequent guest in this sex shop in the early 1990’s and the experiences were AWESOME! I remember running into this one heavyset dude with a HUGE, THICK penis, and he just would not stop rubbing that delicious piece of meat in my ass. I told I’m no but he knocked my hand away and inserted his finger in my ass and all I was in heaven, baby!!
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ReplyDeleteI used to be one of the dancers at this place in the 80's. Went by the name TJ. Those were the days.
ReplyDeleteI was 22 when I first went there. Watched the male dancers for about 30 minutes. The I went downstairs. My first experience with men. The warm fluid was easily swallowed. Nice
ReplyDeleteWow-- Wood-Twin 6 Theater. "Gay" to the Left of entrance, Straight to the Right-- Prophetic! LOL 2024 -- A 50 year observance . . . 1974-- the summer Nixon resigned. ME, a 21 yr old frightened, paranoid, closeted-gay-virgin college student, Home for summer vacation before senior year. (Note: Emphasis on "virgin") Didn't know a single other gay person & so busy trying to hide, probably never would. Saw the ads in the Detroit Free Press for Wood 6 "All Male Cast XXX Movies" -- didn't take Einstein to figure that one out. Told my Mom I was going "shopping at Northland" / drove her car from suburbia to Highland Park-- my very first foray to anything gay. Back then there were no options-- Realized I was a "homo" at 14 -- God forbid back then . . .If you didn't know anyone who was gay, how did you learn anything about the gay sub-culture that existed?? There was no internet, you couldn't look up the work "gay" in the "yellow pages", there were no ads or even published references to whatever gay networks that might have existed. Hence, "All Male Cast".
ReplyDeleteThe experience was not memorable, nor could it be classified as an "experience". My 71 year old memory recalls the stranger as a bleached blond guy, a generation plus (maybe a tad minus), dressed unseasonably in jeans and a sweater for summer. He gestured to me and headed to the bathroom behind the movie screen; I didn't quite understand the body language, but followed. Instantly, before anything happened, I realized this was not the Hallmark situation I envisioned and raced back to my Mom's car still parked on the Highland Pk street. (Note: Emphasis "Still Virgin") But thankful to be alive today in 2024 and Thank You Chris for this gem of a historical gay blog! :)