Why do Strip Clubs have to have ‘specials’. Maybe I get cigar night, and Amateur Wednesdays, but why do they have things like cheap food or cheap drinks or other specials to entice people in. THERE ARE NEKID CHICKS INSIDE. If that isn’t enough of a draw, seriously?
The place in town nearby has a weed store, a porn shop, a strip joint, and Chick Fil A (not freaking kidding) all in the same 100 yard radius. You could live there. And the marquee out front of the strip joint is always touting some special.
Not sure if either are still there, but Louisville, KY had a strip joint and what appeared to be abortion clinic across the street from each other 5 or so years ago.
In my experience the strip clubs that require a “special” have girls inside who are less special.
In the golden age of Pure Platinum, Solid Gold and the Doll House they never had to offer a lunch buffet. But if you found yourself at the Booby Trap, you are gonna want cheap drinks.
Lol went to one in Lexington in the mid to late 90’s where the building had started as a 1970s brick construction steak house. Clean with paint and updated furnishings, but not really reconfigured. Lap dance area was the little overflow seating area that could be sectioned off for parties and the stage was where the salad bar had been at and based on height may have been worked in to the building it.
Only been in one like that, Jiggles in Ft. Lauderdale in the early 90s. When a girl finished dancing she’d then walk around the room soliciting tips. Couldn’t get out of there fast enough. The bikini bars with dancers were better than that place.
The entirety of my misspent youth was wasted in Europe. I turned 19 as a PFC in Germany, so my first experiances with “Strip Clubs” was in a far away land that had no rules for decency.
I have walked in to a “Strip Club” and…
Had to cover my beer to avoid a ping pong ball moving at mach speeds from landing inside. The cannon that shot it was pink !
Asked why the girls each had a number. Well, much like the food and drink on the menu, so were the girls.
Actually watched a very bad dancer scratch her privates to the point that I was pretty sure she had crabs.
Coming back to the States all of this here was fairly tame.
In my career days I had to entertain customers. A Detroit auto executive always wanted to go to Jason’s in Windsor Ontario and take some of his flunkies along. The women looked like they walked out of a magazine… stunning. Drinks were $10. Dance tips were more. No ‘specials’ needed. My boss would ask… do I dare look at your expense report? That was about 30+ years ago. Those were fun times.
Also been been to a few dancing hog shows and dollar beers.
The ‘Peelers’ as we called them over in East St. Louis, where you had the extra spicyness of being robbed going to your car. A buddy trying to tip girls with quarters…and it’s always the married guys at the bachelor parties that get out of hand and don’t want to leave. Texas, by far had the best I’ve seen. And the biggest difference was that the girls seemed to like their jobs, or at the very least they didn’t seem to be pissed to be there. Probably because they were making actual money…
Brunswick County NC had a crematorium that was turned into a strip club. It’s an auto mechanic shop now. There is also a church that was turned into a bar and then back to a church. It may even be a bar again, but I haven’t been there in a while to know. This wasn’t just some building church services were held in. It was something were driving down the road it obviously looked like a church…even when it was a bar.
Had a next door neighbor back when I was young and living in a apartment (decent but still a damn apartment) that worked at Deja Vu.
She worked very little and made a shit ass ton of money when she did. When she came over to party she would always, without fail have a thick ass envelope of cash and not give much of a damn how fast it got spent.
Used to bring me swag from the club all the time. Hats, beer huggies, shirts, magazines, etc.
Was more than a handful of times that buddies of mine would come over with their girlfriends while I was hanging out with the neighbor lady and I would suggest hitting the indoor / outdoor apartment pool late at night. 9 times out of 10 if she got near the pool at night with a half a buzz - Those titties were coming out so everybody could see them. More often than not - If she went topless the other girl (whatever buddies girlfriend) would not be long before she was as well.
It is damn nice to have a neighbor you can party with and / or occasionally bang and then send back to HER apartment when you is done.
Florence, KY had a Chinese restaurant where the adjacent shop was a pet store.
Another fun coincidence was walking in to a state park restaurant and learning it was a special evening with Buffalo on the menu a week or 2 after some goober in the western part of the state made animal cruelty news for starving their herd of buffalo to death.
Probably 20 years ago I had a late 20s very attractive blonde neighbor. She had two little kids. Her day job was a paralegal at a law firm (yes, legit).
One day I went to a fairly upscale club and a minute or two after I sat down I noticed a blond stripper way across the room was laughing uncontrollably while looking directly at me. I didn’t recognize her at first and I wondered why she was laughing. She got up and took the long walk across the floor to me. As she walked closer I was thinking, “she looks like my neighbor”, then I though “she looks really like my neighbor”. It was her, we had a good laugh, she said it’s to supplement her income. I got a few dance from her and we kept our little secret. LOL.
I spent two years doing base security at the Syracuse Air National Guard base. There was a small college on base that some locals would attend night classes. A few of us working attended classes and there was this one young gal taking some classes with us. One night we go out to a local strip club and there she was, at work. We said hi, had a laugh and she directed one of the other dancers to give me a lap dance. Been to a few juice bars (full nude places) and most were pretty scuzzy.
