Yau Ma Tei Theatre (1920) with art-deco interiors, and adjacent to the Wholesale Fruit Market, had for decades kept coolies and rickshaw drivers entertained, but losing business to modern cinemas in the '80s, it began showing erotic films and selling porn videos to stay afloat. At 8 Waterloo Rd next door, the neoclassical Red Brick House once belonged to a pumping station (1895). The buildings now house a Cantonese opera performance and training centre.
