One strip club owner complains to the state about a neighboring club's sign

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• crazyjoe

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  9 years ago

  Haha
• shadowcat

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  9 years ago

  This club started as a vegan restaurant. They were hurting for customers so they brought in the strippers. The sign is just another indication that vegan doesn't work.
• jestrite50

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  9 years ago

  Serve up Steak dinners for $7.00 each and it will bring em in. That's what clubs do around here and it works to get people in.
• dtek

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  9 years ago

  @shadowcat Actually this is the third "vegan strip club" opened up by Johnny Diablo. He's been trying to open a club at this location for a couple of years. It took him a while to get a liquor license for this location so maybe he opened it up as a restaurant originally, but it's always been his intention to make it a strip club.
  
  His second club, Black Cauldron, has been "closed for remodeling" for several months, probably due to difficulties with the liquor commission or the lottery commission. Many Portland clubs derive much of their revenue from lottery machines (electronic slot and poker machines).
  
  @jestrite50 The club that's complaining is famous for their steaks. At one time the owner also owned a cattle ranch that provided the (bovine) meat for his strip club.
• san_jose_guy

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  9 years ago

  Many places do have legal restrictions about commercial sign content. It is a touchy area.
  
  SJG
  https://sites.google.com/site/sjgportal/
• dtek

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  9 years ago

  Oregon's constitutional free speech clause is so broad that the Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that it permits live sex performances on stage. In fact, the Diablo clubs are one of the places where you can see two girls going at each other with toys on stage. There really isn't much the government can do about the content of the sign. They can only regulate size and placement, and then only to a limited extent.
• san_jose_guy

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  9 years ago

  In San Francisco, when Jim are Artie Mitchell started their theater, they found that the laws prohibiting live sex acts were from the Victorian Era, and written such that they assumed that sex would be between a man and a woman. This is what they prohibited. So girl on girl action was not even considered. So Jim and Artie, themselves experienced with making porno movies, played this up for all it is worth.
  
  In porno movies I usually would fast forward past the girl on girl parts. But live, and often including open tongue kissing, it is a real turn on. All the more so when the girl goes from that on stage, to being on my lap.
  
  Things were better before Deja Vu, and in many ways better before going to booths or back rooms.
  
  :)
  
  SJG
  https://sites.google.com/site/sjgportal/
• TheFword

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  9 years ago

  @dtek, yes the free speech limits what the government can do, but the letter was pointing out that a sign with movement is not allowed when they are visible from a highway. I find the video signs very distracting when driving especially at night. Here in the Reno area there is a large video sign right next to the freeway.
  Reno also had its video sign controversy, The Wild Orchid was showing similar content to that in Portland, i.e. dancers on stage.