What's happing to South Carolina clubs?

Obviously the PP chain is running scared. I did take note that they no long show the Lexington, KY PP on their web site. The must have just recently sold it.

My guess is that they must have pissed somebody off.

I'm sure that two people being killed there in the last five years isn't helping matters. In both instances, security acted questionably at best. When you choke guys out and chase non-paying customers all the way to their cars, bad things are inevitably going to happen. Whoever is managing that club is a fucking moron.

The only thing keeping me around here are the strip clubs. Looks like I'll be moving to Tampa?

I don't know. Someone has a beef with a place or type of club and they work on getting it shut down or hurt it till it closes. Other places usually pop up later though. Although I have noticed there really aren't any large decent nude clubs in the whole western half of the state.
One problem was that lap dances were expensive and strictly no touch on the customers part. I never bought any, well maybe 2 or 3 over several years. dancers weren't making much money when customers bring their own beer and tip a few ones at the stage. I liked it though.

If they shut down all the clubs, I will be looking to relocate to another state too. Good luck attracting tourists and industry if the night life sucks in South Carolina. It's not that bad yet but I could imagine it getting there.

I already know the company I currently work for thinks it's ok to pay me at least 20% below the national average because South Carolina pays about 20% below the national average when it comes to my job area and averages. I do not know if the rest of the south pays any better as far as possible places to relocate. Might have to start looking. I only have about a gazillion things to do.

I'm moving today. Don't do it unless you have to or really want to. It sucks

I've been working on moving for years. My house is a huge mess and I'm even further from my goal than I was a few years ago. I was going to start with cleaning up my house. I'm getting temporary satisfaction in other areas of my life so things aren't that bad. I'll move when it looks like it will suck to stay put. My relatives are all over the country so I'm not that fixated on staying put. I think I'd rather just win a 5 million sweep stakes and retire. I'm tired after working long hours. I need the weekend to relax. biggest reason to move would be a job or boss that makes your life miserable.

Is it only south Carolina or a lot of the southern states. I was planning to move to the south since houses are cheaper there.

The entire cost of living is less in the south. That's the only reason I was willing to work at an average pay less than 20% below the national average. I think it's overall more laid back to. I would expect it to be if you're not getting paid that great. However I got a new boss that thinks my pay is pretty good for this area and wants me to work like crazy on occasion. Sometimes driver courtesy and being too laid back really gets on your nerves. Some drivers will often stop to let other people in front, even on occasion if they just pulled up and they hold up all the cars behind them and you don't get through a green light because of the hold up. That sort of things irks me among others about the south. I lived in the south most of my life though. When it snows or even a forecast for snow pops up, it's a national holiday here for schools and a few businesses. Schools stay closed in the south if there is any ice or snow on the road even if it's been mostly scraped off.

With people getting paid less here in the south, that's one reason I always refused to pay some outrageous price for lap dances. I knew there was no way they were from the area and I wasn't going to waste money like that. I do not have a problem with dancers from far away unless they want to charge outrageous prices. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a dancer from Brazil. If the thought pops up, I wonder if she could be an undercover officer and just claiming to be from Brazil, then you might not buy dances.

This suit to close the club sounds just like the legal sledge hammer which has been used in Santa Clara County, "sex acts on themselves". It has been like that in Modesto club closures too. It really stinks. Notice also that it is always the low end which gets busted. High end white escorts very rarely are bothered.

SJG

Sounds like shadowcat's lifetime membership wasn't such a great investment after all.

I wonder what the lifetime membership gets you.

I just read the latest review on PP Greenville. It sounds like things there are slowly getting back to normal. Like I said don't rite the PP chain off just yet. Give it time & see what happens.

JS69 - I'm not sure how much the lifetime membership cards are. I know that a few years ago they were $500. I however got mine free from a friend.

I just got home from Follies and there was a message on my answering machine from a Columbia PP dancer that I know pretty well. Things there and at PP West are still fucked up.

Shadowcat, yeah they sold the club. Platinum plus will become platinum dolls from what I have been hearing. The club is under new ownership now.

I owned a golf condo near Myrtle Beach for more than 10 years. The golf was great, the clubs were fun and I used to spend several months there every year and make occasional trips there with golfing friends and several times brought stripper friends there for a long weekend. I recently sold it and incurred a loss from what I paid in 2002. Property values are still down. I used to spend well over $10,000 a year in restaurants golf courses, strip clubs, etc. there may be plenty of others to take my place, but overall I tired of the cashiers who didn't know how to make change, the efforts of officials to make the Grand Strand a "family" destination (get rid of the strippers or regulate the shit out of the clubs), the right wing politics and evangelical "Christians" and a borderline winter climate.
I've never been overly enamored with Florida but it's looking better. SC could do a great deal to make itself more attractive.

I don't know if South Carolina officials are doing anything to protect strip clubs as that business really helps tourism and foreign investment in my opinion. The rest of the world isn't as much of a prude as many in the US are. There are thousands of people visiting strip clubs every week in South Carolina though. I know a lot of different people who see no problem with the clubs.

Unfortunately South Carolina's cheap gas will be ending soon I believe. Roads are full of potholes or just getting rough to drive on here and the state needs an extra billion dollars a year for twenty years to get things in good condition. With poor or declining infrastructure and strip clubs under attack, people looking to invest here may have second thoughts. Actually I'm still good with the strip clubs in the upstate but maybe not if they close down Platinum. With both Lust and Platinum being hit or miss with whoever is working, you can usually see some good looking girls at one club or the other. If the choice is down to one, not so good. It would be like being told if Walmart doesn't have it, you don't need it.

My local Walmart doesn't stock ice scrapers because some not too bright executive must think we never have frost or ice in western south Carolina. I go to an auto store because one place is short sighted. Same thing applies to clubs, only one would be bad. I never buy auto parts in the local Walmart after I found out they didn't feel a need to stock ice scrapers.

That would be like South Carolina trying to market the state to foreign investors without any good entertainment. They are often business men who want to be entertained when not on business. State officials might think it doesn't matter. Little things make a huge difference.

^^^^@Sharkey touché on foreign investment. Business men love strip clubs. Would not be good for the state to get them all shut down.

Cops need strip clubs too....every movie I have ever seen show that most LE investigations start at a club with naked women.

Where I live some of the investigations have taken over 6 months. They told the news papers that they had '15 dancers under investigation'. What they didn't say was that they were bringing their own condoms.

Then when they made the bust they got the girls' names printed in the newspaper.

In San Francisco, during the hey days when Jim and Artie were fighting it out with Mayor Diane Feinstein, the cops never would have dared say such things or do such things. And the newspaper wouldn't have printed dancer names. They stood with Jim, Artie, and their lovely dancers.

Read: "Bottom Feeders", by Jim Hubner, and SF Chronicle writer.

SJG

Why 6 months? Do they have undercover female officers offering bj's or something to try to pin some evidence on the club?