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Seattle: Pandora's Versus New Rick's

Dougster

As many will know the old Rick's in Seattle got shutdown a few years ago due to the police busting all the Colacurcio (local family fancied by the press a local Italian ganstas) clubs. A couple of years after that the building was auctioned off and purchased for a princely sum by the Deja Vu and re-opened as "Dreamgirls at Rick's". Since then it has been run along the same standard lines as all Deja Vu clubs. Lately, however, it seems to be spiraling downhill. More and more girls seem to be getting involved in worse and worse drugs. Few girls seem to work hard to sell dances. Many just hang in the dressing room and skip their appearances on stage. Meanwhile management seems apathetic. Attendance, generally is declining.

Meanwhile, Pandora's was a new club opened up shortly after the new Rick's. It was rumored to be tied to the old Colacurcio management. For a while it seems the pattern was that the "good" (speaking in relative stripper terms, of course, not absolutes) would work at the new Rick's while the bad girls would work at Pandora's just down the street.

Lately, however, things are reversing as New Rick's declines. It's probably a conscious effort of Pandora's to capitalize on this. Now Pandora's is filled with fresh, young girls many of whom seem to legitimately be college students (or at least told to act that way. :-) ) They actually make an effort to dazzle you with their personalities, and many of them are at least a few months away from being completely jaded - unlike new Rick's. It is funny how the roles have completely reversed.

I don't think the new Rick's is completely going away, but is probably losing money at this point and likely to walk around in a zombie state for years. Meanwhile it will be interesting to see what the transition does to Pandora's - this used to be the number one magnet for local extras hounds. The new emphasis, however, is on good looking, young girls with decent personalities. Will the net result be good for their business? At old Rick's they did a good job of mixing good and bad girls such that there was always one to please every type of customer.