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GAY STREET CEMA
Gay Street Cema.
Gay Street,. In the early-1970’s, there were two adult movie theaters on Gay Street. Bis the Bijou Theatre, which was then showg X-rated movi, there was also the Gay Street Cema which had opened on September 25, 1969.
LYRIC THEATRE (GAY STREET)
Dpe the name, they showed straight, not gay, movi. Lyric Theatre (Gay Street). On September 26, 1872 Knoxville’s first opera hoe, Stb’s Theatre, opened on the rner of Gay Street and Cumberland Avenue.