Here's a question for a lazy winter Friday afternoon---how many TUSCL Top 40 clubs have you visited? I am somewhat embarrassed to say that I have only been to four...
Mons Venus Industrial Strip Brad's Brass Flamingo Big Louie's Two.
I know that list is a fraction of the number of clubs visited by the most peripatetic TUSCLer..which one of us is it?
Now that the Out House in Lawrence, Kansas has graduated into the Top 40, I've been to 2, with Brad's in Indy the other one.
I just did, Shadow. If you don't get it, you can always e my displayed account, rightonpeople(at)yahoo(dot)com.
Shadowcat: Too bad it was the only chance I had to get away. Did you get my email last week? I was hoping you might be there anyway. Maybe next time I'm in the area. I'm there about twice a year lately, so maybe in the spring. Great club!
Now I feel like a perv with 5: Mons, Baby Dolls, Rick's, Fox's and Mitchell Brothers. But how can a guy be in Orlando on business without driving out to the famous Mons?
Also 2 on the bottom forty; sometimes a guy is desperate. But the DV Tukwila was really hot about 10-15 years ago. First time I got really happy in a club.
Tuesday night, I moved into a tie with LonelyExec with 12 by visiting Platinum Plus in Columbia, SC (not the reason I went).
I've also been to Nepals and the Landing Strip in Romulus, MI.
Rick's (Seattle, WA) - 1991, 1992 & 2000
Fox's (Tacoma, WA) - March 2005
based on todays lists 12/14 i have visited the following:
Top 40
Tootsies, Mons Venus, Plat Plus Columbia, Ybor, Pure Plat Ft Laud, Plat Plus Memphis and Bare Assets
Bottom 40
Puss&Boots, Club Harem, Baby Dolls, Lady Godiva II and Club Odyssey
I've missed the thrill of visiting any bottom 40 clubs but I'm sure I've been to several places that are just as bad. I've also been to Nepal's which should be in the top 40, as should Club Risque in Bristol, PA, and Filly Corral Showbar in Smithton, PA. I'd also consider putting The Pleasure Dome and Partners Tavern there. Those are my favorite PA clubs and they're all quite good in their own way. If I lived close enough to Partners to be a regular I'm sure it would quickly become my favorite, but it's a bit trying for an out-of-towner because there are so many regulars and they get most of the action.
where i have been:
sorry to say that I have been to these shit holes as well
chitown.. I read your posts quite a bit. I too live in ILL and frequnet many clubs around the nation. Been to Brad's many times. You must go visit the Detroit area and check out the Flight Club. You will like it.
Chandler:Based on current T40 crop:(8) Tootsies, Ricks, GABC(AK), Mons Venus, PP/SG, BradsBF, Fox's, and The Lodge. HOWEVER.... I've been to 4 additional clubs that have been T40 rated at some time in recent past: SRI, 2001, Sugars(Austin TX), and Landing Strip(Detroit).
I've been to a few clubs that have dropped out of the Top 40. Cheetah III, Nepal's, and the Landing Strip in Romulus, MI come to mind.
Been to Playhouse Lounge in Burlington, Seductions in Niagra falls, Ybor Strip in Tampa (years ago on that one) and Industrial Strip. HAve not been in any of the bottom 40.
I have been to two of the bottom 40.
I want to revise my remarks. I'm almost certain I've been to Treasures in Houston, but it might have had a different name. I hit almost everything on Westheimer when I was there. Anybody know some history of this club? Of course it might have sucked, so if you visit a top 40 club when it is not in the top 40, have you visited it? Also I have had many opportunities to visit Mitchell Bros, but frankly I am not keen to step into a brothel with a reputation as almost a clip joint.
Chitown, I think the answer is that the really terrible clubs get very few reviews, nobody goes there.
Am I the only one here who has been to the #1 rated club, Playhouse Lounge? Personally I wouldn't put it in the top 10 in the Philly area. I'm curious how the rest of you feel about it, if you've been there. It's OK, especially if your top priority is very high mileage, but other than that it's nothing special
Between ten of us who have been to any of the Top 40, we have collectively been to 31 of them. I guess we can see why we are on this board...
I'm disappointed, though, that nobody has yet posted who has been to Jaguars--El Paso. It sounds like a really good club, with lots of potential for Latinas, and is consistently in the Top 10. I'm also interested in the fact that nobody has yet posted as having been to Treasures, which seems to trade places regularly with Playhouse, Burlington, for Number 1. In fact, no response yet for four of the Top Ten.
An inquiry on methodology...Founder requires eight reviews for a club to get in the Top 40, which makes sense as far as the representativeness of the reviews...a club isn't going to go to number one because the only guy to review it happened to get a bj on his first visit. Why no such requirement to put a club in the bottom group, to prevent one bad visit from damning a club? Just a question.
To my shame, none. I think the list varies a bit as ratings change, and there are some Houston clubs I've visited that might pop on the list every so often (Rick's and Centerfolds). I still plan to do a Niagra Falls trip next time I'm in that area.
I've been to 3 of the Bottom 40 clubs. All 3 deserve to be in that ignominious list.
I have also been to Club Cabar'et in the Peoria area, that slipped off the list about two weeks ago after someone issued the coup de grace with a "2" rating. Three months ago it was no. 13, and it gradually faded away, deservedly so.
I came to understand the true meaning of "cognitive dissonance" when Club Cabar'et was at 13, and Favorite Club was 35. (By the way, Chandler, the extraneous apostrophe in the name further exemplifies my opinions about that club)
I would like it if Founder would add the rank of every club as part of its general information, the way that Amazon.com does for books.
Only 4 here -- Tootsies, Mons Venus, Scarlett's of Toledo and Mario's.
I'm with you Yoda... Mario's is good but I prefer MG.
I'm hoping Minnow can take the crown from me. This seems more like his specialty.
I've been to 3 of the Bottom 40. And lived to tell.
Only one, Brad's. I have as many Bottom 40 clubs visited as Top 40, with 1, the Deja Vu in Lake Station, IN, although that was a long time ago and maybe shouldn't count.
7: Tootsie's Cabaret, Mons Venus, Platinum Plus-Columbia, Ybor Strip, Play House, Pure Platinum Solid Gold, Bare Assets.
Currently two for me, PP Columbia and the Masters. There was one that dropped off. There's another I think I could help get on the top 40 but I'm not interested in making the place more crowded than it already gets. I would actually like it if PP Columbia was not standing room only on the weekends. I think it was last year when I was there. Definitely a hearing protection required club (no joking either about that). You have to protect your ears from the ear piercing music and the DJ rattling his mouth. I think he must be training the DJ in Greenville because that music is getting too loud as well.
Only 2: Rick's and Foxs. Looks like a trip to Texas might be in order for me. (Perhaps I could also meet up with the legendary RL while I was there.)
Only one, Marios II in Webster Mass. Though I enjoy the club it's not nealy the best time to be had in my area. This is one of the reasons I don't pay much attention to ratings or lists.
Chandler, I am not worthy.
My resume, with years visited in parentheses:
11, I'm embarassed to say.
Four for me also: Mons Venus (although it was so long ago it probably shouldn't count), Brad's, Industrial Strip, and Playhouse Lounge. I've also been to several other places that belong in the top 40.
As far as "Most Top 40 Clubs Visited", I've been to these: Treasures (Houston, Tx) and Flight Club (Inkster, Michigan). Both are very worth their reputation, though expensive.
I've been to Landing Strip in MI, and its a nice second tier titty bar, way above any Deja Vu or local dive, but below the Top 40 Clubs.