Church to buy strip club
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
FORT COLLINS[CO] - Employees of the last strip club in Fort Collins said an unexpected goodbye to the business Sunday.
In a move that caught customers, employees and even the building's future owners off guard, A Hunt Club leaders announced early Sunday morning the closure of the business that opened nearly 25 years ago.
Timberline Church plans to buy the east Fort Collins building housing Northern Colorado's longest-operating strip club. A Hunt Club will be replaced by a new church serving the needs of those living on the north side of Fort Collins.
"Everyone was kind of blindsided," said topless dancer Ashley Trent, 21, of Fort Collins who started at the club as a 19-year-old in need of quick cash but soon became part of the "mini family" of bartenders, DJs, bouncers, dancers and regulars.
Trent, who met her husband, bouncer John "Fluffy" Stephenson at the club, estimates roughly 40 people lost their jobs.
In a move that caught customers, employees and even the building's future owners off guard, A Hunt Club leaders announced early Sunday morning the closure of the business that opened nearly 25 years ago.
Timberline Church plans to buy the east Fort Collins building housing Northern Colorado's longest-operating strip club. A Hunt Club will be replaced by a new church serving the needs of those living on the north side of Fort Collins.
"Everyone was kind of blindsided," said topless dancer Ashley Trent, 21, of Fort Collins who started at the club as a 19-year-old in need of quick cash but soon became part of the "mini family" of bartenders, DJs, bouncers, dancers and regulars.
Trent, who met her husband, bouncer John "Fluffy" Stephenson at the club, estimates roughly 40 people lost their jobs.
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A Nun has hope in her soul and Alucard has soap in his hole.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me about the Hunt Club in Ft. Collins. I was talking someone who was personal friends with the owners a while back and they said the new owners were very religious. They had made the rules more strict than ever. This has always been an air dance club with strict no touching rules. It is more like a bar with topless dancers. I wonder if the plan all along was to make rhis into a church.
The building now is some kind of event center. I believe that it was back when it was Dockside. Saw the Morrell Sisters (much younger of course) dance there. Yep, it was a event center.
Shadow's post brought back a few good memories.
Just an old clubber reminiscing.
I have been told that
Nun = NONE
LOL
I believe the church is now gone.