Back in the days before TUSCL and other site/internet how did you all find clubs when you traveled. Did you scan the telephone book under 'Night Clubs', Dance Clubs, or Erotic Entertainment. Perhaps looked under Adult Bookstores then go to the bookstore and look for the news paper that lists clubs or Adult Entertainment.
Sometimes I would get as desperate as looking up "night clubs" in the yellowpages/whitepages.
In some cities, you could be lucky enough to find them listed in a "alternative city" newspaper which was usually free that had articles and ads, and clubs would take out advertise space or post in the classified section in the back along with escorts, etc. under "adult entertainment."
Lastly, in some states there would be "strip club magazines" which would be free at the strip clubs, and most clubs in a certain radius would advertise in these magazines. Sometimes these magazine may span over 3 states so that's where I would find most of these clubs. Often in the midwest and south, many of these clubs were out in the middle of nowhere (although they may have been just a few miles off a major interstate off a desolate exit ramp) if it weren't for these magazines I would have never known these clubs had existed.
I used a different web site I think it was stripclublist.com. The reviews were crap, and I ended up at some awful dives. A couple of horrible experiences later I found tuscl. I don't remember ever relying upon reviews from any other web site once I arrived here.
I had been to the U.S. a couple of times before discovering this site. I got frustrated at not being able to find clubs easily before then. I remember finding out about Thee Doll House in Orlando, going there and thinking it was great, I soon realised after discovering TUSCL and subsequently going to Mons in Tampa just how shit Thee Doll House was.
There aren't that many SC's where I live. LE makes it very hard on anyone who wants to open a new one. The conflict which ensues will get into the newspapers. and maybe into the courts and political campaigns too.
And then for the Mexican Bar Table Dancing circuit, otherwise known as "Bikini Show", it was always word of mouth.
Things like TUSCL are important for people who travel. There used to be a guild book of Exotic Dance Clubs for the entire country. I saw it in a porn store.
But to find AMPs I would use the yellow pages. Most of them wouldn't last the full year though. And too often at phone booths someone had torn out exactly the pages I needed to see.
Later on I would use these entertainment newspapers, like the San Jose Metro.
Well, the very first club I went to was with some friends. Apparently the father of one of the group had mentioned it.
After that, while I was still living at home, my uncle periodically told me about them. In Jacksonville NC, most of them were right outside the main gate.
In KC, there was word of mouth, and one of the alternative newspapers someone mentions. In Louisville, they're all pretty much in one place, but it was shortly after I moved here that I found TUSCL, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Yellow Pages -- if they weren't torn out from hotel room book.
E: Entertainers/Entertainment Bureaus
E: Escorts
M: Massage
N: Night Clubs
T: Tavern
Usually hit paydirt with Night Clubs. Once I found one, I always asked each dancer how long she worked there and if she worked anywhere else. They were surprisingly useful for intel on their competitors. Especially if they said they left their old club because it was too dirty or not classy or any other code for -- BINGO, high mileage or extras!!!.
Wow... this is horrible. I know that in the early 80s, when I traveled to an unfamiliar city, I knew in advance about the strip clubs I would try. But I have no recollection whatsoever of how I managed it. Holy crap, I've been a bad caretaker of my brain cells.
I remember the newspaper ads in the back of the sports page. This was the newspaper of the largest city in the region. It was not uncommon to count a dozen or more strip club ads along with a couple for local sex shops.
I have always used TUSCL. Nothing else. I was fortunate to find it on my first internet search and have been loyal to it ever since. I didn't club for many, many years, but whenever I did TUSCL was where I went. I mainly went to find clubs near my hotel in whatever town I was in.
When I decided I was going to monger seriously, I came back to TUSCL and started writing reviews so i could get Intel and participating in the discussion posts.
I remember when I still lived in the Chicago area that I would buy a Chicago Sun-Times newspaper because that was the only newspaper which had strip club ads. Then, when I moved here to Omaha, I went to the adult bookstore in Council Bluffs and got a magazine which was a strip club listing. None of this actually said how good the clubs were, and for the most part, they all sucked.
I started out picking up girls on the corner. I would cruise the seedy sections of town searching for prostitutes. Many times while cruising the bars I would find strip clubs or "Go Go Clubs" and burlesque houses located in the same area. It's not hard to find if you know what to look for.
It was really hit or miss, especially when I was traveling. For starters, many strip clubs didn't post in the yellow pages, so that was rarely helpful. So instead I often relied upon concierges and cabbies, who invariably recommended places that kicked back to them. When I went to one of the clubs that had adult magazines by the entrance, I grabbed them so that I could find other clubs in the area.
Even in the early days of dial-up Internet, most search engines really sucked and finding club intel was difficult. I've told this story before, but in 1998 I bought a book of Internet sites and found tuscl. The site was tough to use and dreadfully slow over a dial-up connection, but I was able to locate clubs in my favorite travel areas that I had never heard of before. Man did that open things up for me.
First club I went to was in my home town and opened when I was in high school. Interesting the building had a pool hall on the front, and strip club in the back. My friends and I all talked about going into the strip club but none of them did until they were of age. Having a mustache at 16 and a bit of courage (not to mention Washington clubs don't serve alcohol so they didn't ID). I went it. Only place I ever visited until I moved to college and happened to drive past one of their sister clubs.
I remember looking at night clubs in phone books a few times. There was Internet but no smart phones nor tablets so I had no Internet wherever I was at.
I was somewhere in the US for whatever reason and had some spare time in the evening.
Fortunately, the company I work for cut back routinely sending people all over the place a number of years ago. I really do not enjoy traveling all over the place for work. It was all in the eastern half of the US though if you drew a line west of Minnesota.
I never really have traveled much alone. I almost always seem to be with someone. I think that could change. I could travel across the US just visiting relatives. But then I wouldn't be alone again.
knocking on wood
It would suck in my opinion to be told I need to go to Mexico , Brazil or China or somewhere.
Brazil might be best of those. not wanting to go for work though.
The first time I went to a club (other than a couple bachelor parties), in 1994, it was to see a stripper I had met in a regular bar. The next few clubs I learned about by word of mouth from strippers.
Then I came across an annual magazine called Exotic Dancer, which was a national directory. It just had basic club listings without reviews or ratings. I used it to check out most of the Detroit area clubs that year. It also had some really dorky articles like "How to Behave Correctly With Your Exotic Dancer".
There was another pulp-y magazine back then called "American Sex Scene: Guide to Bordellos", which covered mostly escort agencies and massage parlors across the country, but included reviews of strip clubs in a few cities, the first reviews I ever read. That's where I learned all about the Tampa scene.
Around the same time (late 1994), I got my first internet access. The best online listing then was called Grimace Nudie, don't ask me why. The best discussion board was the Usenet newsgroup ASSC (alt.sex.strip-clubs), which was just getting started. Not much of the US was wired then. Most of the discussion was about California clubs, especially the Bay Area.
TUSCL went online within a year or two of that, but it took a few years to get really good. Stripclublist.com began around 1999 as a wholesale ripoff of TUSCL.
Like others, I looked through the sports section, or in sex rag papers sold in adult bookstores or in vending machines. Phoenix used to have a paper called the Bachelor Beat, and it had big full page ads for jack shacks, which were very plentiful and popular back in the early 80s. Another thing that used to be more common were billboards with strip club ads, usually plastered with a scantily clad hottie. That was actually how I found my way to Bourbon Street Circus in Phoenix in 1982, and the rest is history....
I've only been at this since 2008/2009....first club I went to was without the help of TUSCL ( buddy and I went to a local club when I was in town for a Vikings game)
After that, I was hooked and searched the net and that's how I found TUSCL and the rest of the way I've found clubs because of this site
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In some cities, you could be lucky enough to find them listed in a "alternative city" newspaper which was usually free that had articles and ads, and clubs would take out advertise space or post in the classified section in the back along with escorts, etc. under "adult entertainment."
Lastly, in some states there would be "strip club magazines" which would be free at the strip clubs, and most clubs in a certain radius would advertise in these magazines. Sometimes these magazine may span over 3 states so that's where I would find most of these clubs. Often in the midwest and south, many of these clubs were out in the middle of nowhere (although they may have been just a few miles off a major interstate off a desolate exit ramp) if it weren't for these magazines I would have never known these clubs had existed.
And then for the Mexican Bar Table Dancing circuit, otherwise known as "Bikini Show", it was always word of mouth.
Things like TUSCL are important for people who travel. There used to be a guild book of Exotic Dance Clubs for the entire country. I saw it in a porn store.
But to find AMPs I would use the yellow pages. Most of them wouldn't last the full year though. And too often at phone booths someone had torn out exactly the pages I needed to see.
Later on I would use these entertainment newspapers, like the San Jose Metro.
SJG
After that, while I was still living at home, my uncle periodically told me about them. In Jacksonville NC, most of them were right outside the main gate.
In KC, there was word of mouth, and one of the alternative newspapers someone mentions. In Louisville, they're all pretty much in one place, but it was shortly after I moved here that I found TUSCL, and the rest, as they say, is history.
E: Entertainers/Entertainment Bureaus
E: Escorts
M: Massage
N: Night Clubs
T: Tavern
Usually hit paydirt with Night Clubs. Once I found one, I always asked each dancer how long she worked there and if she worked anywhere else. They were surprisingly useful for intel on their competitors. Especially if they said they left their old club because it was too dirty or not classy or any other code for -- BINGO, high mileage or extras!!!.
Now, thank goodness for the internet.
When I decided I was going to monger seriously, I came back to TUSCL and started writing reviews so i could get Intel and participating in the discussion posts.
Even in the early days of dial-up Internet, most search engines really sucked and finding club intel was difficult. I've told this story before, but in 1998 I bought a book of Internet sites and found tuscl. The site was tough to use and dreadfully slow over a dial-up connection, but I was able to locate clubs in my favorite travel areas that I had never heard of before. Man did that open things up for me.
I was somewhere in the US for whatever reason and had some spare time in the evening.
Fortunately, the company I work for cut back routinely sending people all over the place a number of years ago. I really do not enjoy traveling all over the place for work. It was all in the eastern half of the US though if you drew a line west of Minnesota.
I never really have traveled much alone. I almost always seem to be with someone. I think that could change. I could travel across the US just visiting relatives. But then I wouldn't be alone again.
It would suck in my opinion to be told I need to go to Mexico , Brazil or China or somewhere.
Brazil might be best of those. not wanting to go for work though.
Then I came across an annual magazine called Exotic Dancer, which was a national directory. It just had basic club listings without reviews or ratings. I used it to check out most of the Detroit area clubs that year. It also had some really dorky articles like "How to Behave Correctly With Your Exotic Dancer".
There was another pulp-y magazine back then called "American Sex Scene: Guide to Bordellos", which covered mostly escort agencies and massage parlors across the country, but included reviews of strip clubs in a few cities, the first reviews I ever read. That's where I learned all about the Tampa scene.
Around the same time (late 1994), I got my first internet access. The best online listing then was called Grimace Nudie, don't ask me why. The best discussion board was the Usenet newsgroup ASSC (alt.sex.strip-clubs), which was just getting started. Not much of the US was wired then. Most of the discussion was about California clubs, especially the Bay Area.
TUSCL went online within a year or two of that, but it took a few years to get really good. Stripclublist.com began around 1999 as a wholesale ripoff of TUSCL.
" I started out picking up girls on the corner. I would cruise the seedy sections of town searching for prostitutes.
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Awesome. I've never lived in a place where it was like that. But it is never to late to find such a place and learn now.
SJG
After that, I was hooked and searched the net and that's how I found TUSCL and the rest of the way I've found clubs because of this site