LAX AIRPORT AREA NUDE CLUBS FLASHBACK... 1980's STYLE
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JET STRIP- Current Tuscl members probably know of present Jet Strip location on 10624 Hawthorne Blvd, a bit east of LAX airport hotels. How many of you know of the original Jet Strip location on the corner of Imperial Hwy. and Aviation Blvd. not too far from the approach end of Runway 25L ? How many people traveling on 105 Freeway out of LAX/ El Segundo know that some of the supporting freeway beams occupy a space that was once a strip club ?
Back in the 1984 - 1985 timeframe when I had a number of LAX business trips, the Jet Strip was a good nude club for eye candy. Typical weekday night (Tue - Thu ) would have 5 - 8 dancers on shift, every one of them an 8 or better. Overwhelmingly Caucasian with very discrete or no ink, mostly athletic builds, no blimps allowed on shift. NO Contact at all ITC, tips were placed on tip rail, no tip garters for gratuitous "feelie", no lap dances or private dances available.
Sometime in late 1985 or early 1986, Jet Strip closed, and dancers/staff working there migrated to newly opened Bare Elegance down the street. I think the same guy owned both clubs. I'm not sure exactly when Jet Strip moved to (or re-opened in) present location, my first awareness of this was early 2000's. Back in 1985, I think "Cahills Cabaret" was at present location. It was a nude club that I only went to a couple of times in 1985. Dancer attractiveness mid range, no lap dances either, so little reason other than change of pace would induce me to visit Cahills.
BARE ELEGANCE- I picked off where I left off at the old Jet Strip with fairly regular visits in 1986 to 1988. I had 3 isolated visits 1991 to 1998 there, then picked up regular visits from 2001 to 2009, then a few isolated visits till 2012. I don't recall any private dance option until 1991, that was topless only on another side of a Dutch Door, no contact. They were at least $5, maybe $10. I think the contact in dances started in the late 90's. I'm making my 1980's visits the focus in this article.
Bare Elegance continued the old Jet Strip business model (good eye candy, virtually no dancer lower than an 8). Some dancers I recall from back then:
Mikey(sp)- Practically epitomized one version of my ideal dancer (tall athletic brunette, nice medium size perky tits, solid proportional abs, nice booty well toned but hint of softness). Besides good looks, she could twist herself into a pretzel (both feet behind head.) Quite a sight for a dancer nearly 6 feet tall. Even 3 decades later she's in my top 5 for hottest dancers.
Khadeezah (sp)- Can you say wig of the month club ? This medium height/build dancer had styles from very high beehive dirty blonde do (wig?), to bright blonde short hair, to jet black short hair, and several in between.
Maddie- Fairly typical athletic California blonde, except maybe her wild child streak.
Offhand, I don't recall any Asians or Blacks dancing there during the mid - late 80's. Maybe some real tuscl/z-bone old timers could chip in here in the comments section.
CENTURY NUDES: Anybody driving westbound on Century Blvd between the early 80's and 2009 would see the tacky "Live Nudes" sign outside the club. I thought "great, who wants to see dead nudes." Since club was easy walking distance from different Century Blvd. LAX airport hotels that I stayed at (late 80's), a visit to the club was a no - brainer.
Club was co-located with adult book/video store. Getting from store into club entailed paying to go through turnstile entry. There were 6 to 10 nude dancers on shift, attractiveness range mostly 5 to 7, maybe a occasional 8. Private dances were coming into being then. For $10 per song, one could go to 1 of 2 curtained off mini stages away from main stage. Non - contact nude dances were performed with the goods 1 foot from your face. Definitely woody producing back then.
One short lived club gimmick involved putting some cameras underneath the stage. Dancers would stoop over them, which would have her goods projected on 1 or more TV monitors around the stage. That lasted a few months.
Postscript: During the ~ 16 year or so gap between LAX airport Century Blvd. hotel stays, I'd discovered the COI area clubs. When I revisited club in 2005, the turnstile was still there, and the inside looked like it hadn't been remodeled in a while. Contact lap dances had caught on at Century Nudes by then. YMMV applied, and I managed to find a diamond or 2 in the rough. The upsell to a $50 "good contact" dance wore thin for me.
Times caught up to club by 2009 when it had sold out to airport parking garage company. Club was demolished by the 2nd half of 2009. From the 1980's Jet Strip being demolished for freeway construction, to Century Nudes being replaced with airport parking garage to Wild Goose (I may do an article on that iconic club) selling out to (apartment ? condo? ) developer marks the passing of some airport strip club icons. So enjoy the clubs before they sell out to, or get gobbled up by commercial interests.
Back in the 1984 - 1985 timeframe when I had a number of LAX business trips, the Jet Strip was a good nude club for eye candy. Typical weekday night (Tue - Thu ) would have 5 - 8 dancers on shift, every one of them an 8 or better. Overwhelmingly Caucasian with very discrete or no ink, mostly athletic builds, no blimps allowed on shift. NO Contact at all ITC, tips were placed on tip rail, no tip garters for gratuitous "feelie", no lap dances or private dances available.
Sometime in late 1985 or early 1986, Jet Strip closed, and dancers/staff working there migrated to newly opened Bare Elegance down the street. I think the same guy owned both clubs. I'm not sure exactly when Jet Strip moved to (or re-opened in) present location, my first awareness of this was early 2000's. Back in 1985, I think "Cahills Cabaret" was at present location. It was a nude club that I only went to a couple of times in 1985. Dancer attractiveness mid range, no lap dances either, so little reason other than change of pace would induce me to visit Cahills.
BARE ELEGANCE- I picked off where I left off at the old Jet Strip with fairly regular visits in 1986 to 1988. I had 3 isolated visits 1991 to 1998 there, then picked up regular visits from 2001 to 2009, then a few isolated visits till 2012. I don't recall any private dance option until 1991, that was topless only on another side of a Dutch Door, no contact. They were at least $5, maybe $10. I think the contact in dances started in the late 90's. I'm making my 1980's visits the focus in this article.
Bare Elegance continued the old Jet Strip business model (good eye candy, virtually no dancer lower than an 8). Some dancers I recall from back then:
Mikey(sp)- Practically epitomized one version of my ideal dancer (tall athletic brunette, nice medium size perky tits, solid proportional abs, nice booty well toned but hint of softness). Besides good looks, she could twist herself into a pretzel (both feet behind head.) Quite a sight for a dancer nearly 6 feet tall. Even 3 decades later she's in my top 5 for hottest dancers.
Khadeezah (sp)- Can you say wig of the month club ? This medium height/build dancer had styles from very high beehive dirty blonde do (wig?), to bright blonde short hair, to jet black short hair, and several in between.
Maddie- Fairly typical athletic California blonde, except maybe her wild child streak.
Offhand, I don't recall any Asians or Blacks dancing there during the mid - late 80's. Maybe some real tuscl/z-bone old timers could chip in here in the comments section.
CENTURY NUDES: Anybody driving westbound on Century Blvd between the early 80's and 2009 would see the tacky "Live Nudes" sign outside the club. I thought "great, who wants to see dead nudes." Since club was easy walking distance from different Century Blvd. LAX airport hotels that I stayed at (late 80's), a visit to the club was a no - brainer.
Club was co-located with adult book/video store. Getting from store into club entailed paying to go through turnstile entry. There were 6 to 10 nude dancers on shift, attractiveness range mostly 5 to 7, maybe a occasional 8. Private dances were coming into being then. For $10 per song, one could go to 1 of 2 curtained off mini stages away from main stage. Non - contact nude dances were performed with the goods 1 foot from your face. Definitely woody producing back then.
One short lived club gimmick involved putting some cameras underneath the stage. Dancers would stoop over them, which would have her goods projected on 1 or more TV monitors around the stage. That lasted a few months.
Postscript: During the ~ 16 year or so gap between LAX airport Century Blvd. hotel stays, I'd discovered the COI area clubs. When I revisited club in 2005, the turnstile was still there, and the inside looked like it hadn't been remodeled in a while. Contact lap dances had caught on at Century Nudes by then. YMMV applied, and I managed to find a diamond or 2 in the rough. The upsell to a $50 "good contact" dance wore thin for me.
Times caught up to club by 2009 when it had sold out to airport parking garage company. Club was demolished by the 2nd half of 2009. From the 1980's Jet Strip being demolished for freeway construction, to Century Nudes being replaced with airport parking garage to Wild Goose (I may do an article on that iconic club) selling out to (apartment ? condo? ) developer marks the passing of some airport strip club icons. So enjoy the clubs before they sell out to, or get gobbled up by commercial interests.
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The original Jet Strip and the Wild Goose were both on my way home from work. I often stopped by on my way home and your article helped me remember those times. You're right, it was 100% non-contact, hard to imagine in this day and age. Moved to Memphis in the mid-80's, at that time they were on the leading edge of full contact and extras. Interesting that about 20 years later that Memphis went back to non-contact...
Blue Zebra in NH was the City of Industry's equal in the 90's with perhaps 80% of the dancers openly offering a full menu behind the double-swinging-doored booths along the back wall (before they opened the VIP area down a hallway to the back). I remember my first visit there, a dancer sat down with me right after I got my drink and asked me to take her to a booth. I mean we hadn't even had a conversation... just "take me for a dance." As I entered the booth and was starting to sit down, she put my hand on her pussy and said "wanna fuck now, or after a dance?" I didn't even know her name, and I still don't. LOL.
She rode me BB for about 2 songs. I tipped her an extra $40 and she grabbed some napkins from her purse to hold the evidence. This turned out to be the standard operations protocol in that club for several years. The bouncers only came by to count each song, never looking in a booth or caring what was going on. I'm sure that at least three dancers were giving the bouncers on shift a weekly ride to ensure their cooperation. Even after it reopened as Blue Zebra the same menu was available in the new VIP booths in the back - minus the doors on each padded-bench booth. It was a win-win-win situation.
Good times.