A Strip Club's Second Life

Ah, Sugars. Those were good times.

@ Dougster: I've only been to Sugar's since 2004. It was always a mediocre club since I knew it, but I have heard it was quite a place at one time. It was a "private" club, and had membership requirement. I know one dancer that worked there in its heyday and thought highly of it back then. What's your recollection?

Wasn't private when I went. It was a bit of a dive, but no worse than Honeys. Generally it was where girls who were "bad" at other clubs got sent to work for a time as punishment. So alot of the baddest of the bad girls ended up there. Which, of course, could be good for customers. But some were just outright ROBs and management didn't seem to care much.

Being next door to a casino probably helped out Sugars business and maybe vice-versa.

I have seen strip clubs that have closed turned in home less shelters, auto detail shops the list goes on.

There was a real small dive club in Broward Cty called Fantasy Lounge that went through various incarnations.

It looked like it was a gas station b/f stripclub based on it's original outside design.

Then it was closed for a while and I happened to drive by it a few years ago and it was now a Temple of some sort(not the Jewish kind).

Now it appears to be for sale.

Club:
https://www.google.com/maps/@26.062638,-…

For sale:
http://www.trulia.com/property/108857695…

There was a club here in NC visible from the highway that closed and a church either set up in it or in the building that it shared a parking lot with. I believe the church has since left too.

This may swing both ways. I have been to TDs North in ABQ a couple of times. The exterior look and interior layout have me thinking it might have been a church in the past. Anybody know for certain?

I know of a club in Pomona,CA that is now an orthodontists office. I much prefer nudes to braces.

I suppose a strip club becoming a church is better than a strip club simply being demolished, a fate which happened to three different clubs which used to exist in the Omaha area. One of those places which got demolished now has a Walgreen's there. Another simply became a freeway exit ramp.

One of my missions once with one of my friends, who is originally from Fremont, NE, is to go to Uncle Larry's, which is the bar which inhabits the old Lariat Club there. I have a morbid curiousity to know what it looks like now, but since I no longer drink, I'd have to drive, but he always wants to drive there (it is his old hometown, after all).

Slick, That would be the former Babydolls Theatre on W. Holt Ave. (Pomona, CA) near the SR-71 Fwy. I had some great times there!

(BTW, if ANYONE in TUSCL-land can help me on this I'd appreciate it: I've been trying to find the reviews for that club. It closed around 2006, and never reopened as a strip club. I thought I knew how to search for reviews of closed clubs, but I can't find it in all of TUSCL.)

I went into a strip club the other day...thought it may have been a fire house at one time, with all the poles.