Doc here, a man who some say still longs for a sausage and peppers sandwich on Hertel Avenue during the Italian Fest, with a special Flash Report from my old stomping grounds of Western New York.
New contributor to The Journal, Dave Scajaquada, has filed this detail-packed report from Buffalo's Video Liquidators #3 (address in the adult theater dB) from this past Thursday night.
It's good to see a little home cooking. The Buffalo/WNY adult theater scene was robust when I was a "yout", with many a night spent at places like the Capri Art, the Niagara Falls Cinema, and my favorite, Good Time Charlies. Charlie's 24/7 setup, very play friendly environment, and ABS/mini theater (with 60+ seats) was a pre-cursor to the setup of many newer adult theaters. The Good Doctor played hard and often at Charlie's as a young spud.
Today, my old home town has two adult theaters of note: Talk of the Town Video in Niagara Falls, and Video Liquidator's #3 on Elmwood Ave. in Buffalo, NY. I know both theaters very well, but the action has been subdued from what I am hearing from my paesans back home. I hope this report from Dave Scajaquada is a) an indication of an improvement in the scene there, and b) the first of many reports from both Dave and other Journal scribes.
So ladies and gentlemen, put down your chicken wings and beef on weck, pop open a Fresca (Hi Gemini!), fasten your seatbelts and enjoy this first report from Dave Scajaquada.
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Greetings Doc, from your old stomping grounds of Western New York. I've been a long-time reader of the Journal, and events of this week inspired me to write you for the first time.
This past Thursday night, I paid a visit to Video Liquidators on Elmwood Avenue. I've been popping into VL to partake in "this thing of ours" off and on for the better part of 15 years, and although week nights are generally a dead time, my lower brain got the best of me and I decided to swing by.
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Video Liquidators #3
Buffalo, NY |
One interesting development in Buffalo is that the area around this store is changing. The store is an old warehouse, and many of the businesses in the immediate area were industrial (or, as is too often the case in Buffalo, closed formerly industrial buildings).
However, what once was a discount furniture warehouse next door has been replaced with a fairly upscale boutique hotel, a welcome development not just from an aesthetic point of view, but from the possibilities for meeting/play with one of the (if not the) largest adult theaters in Buffalo right next door. This becomes important later.
