Dancer license costs.
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
I was talking to a dancer at Follies yesterday. She told me that she had been hired at Cheetah and that the cost for a City of Atlanta license is now $380 for the first year. The City of Chamblee where Follies is located is $100. Club Wax in Atlanta does not require a license because it is a bikini club.
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Do you know if Miami-Dade and Broward require licenses?
Remember the Cabaret Cards, and Thelonious Monk loosing his over a marijuana bust. Similar situation. No legitimate reason to require the card.
If challenged, these licensing requirements could be found as unconstitutional. Don't think San Francisco has any such licensing.
It is not just a sin tax, it is to scare would be dancers off.
SJG
Not sure about porn though.
SJG
I'm sure their excuse would be the high fee keeps up with the administration costs of such licenses.
City of Atlanta
Atlanta Police Department
226 Peachtree St
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
404.546.6873 - THIS NUMBER TAKES YOU TO PUBLIC RELATIONS WHICH WILL GIVE YOU THE PROPER NUMBER
Permits are $350.00 and it is a two part process, you have to take a money order for $ 50.00 first for them to do a background check, on you and then if you pass that then you can go back the following day and you have to give them another money order for $300.00, It is not a one day process so don't think that if you go up there you will get it within that same day, It takes two days.
YOU CANNOT GET A PERMIT IF:
1) You have more than 2 misdemeanors within 5 years
2) You have a Felony within 7 years, also
3) You have any drug charges, pending or past automatic No, and same with any
4) You have any Prostitution charges past or pending it is an automatic NO.
You must buy 1 permit PER CLUB.
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No, it is actually far worse. It is not just a way of making money for cities. It is a way of harassing and intimidating dancers, and it is a way of choking down on a kind of 1st Amendment protected expression, just because some people don't like it.
Strip clubs only exist because of decade after decade of great lawyers like Melvin Belli and the folks who represented Jim and Artie Mitchell, going into court and getting such unconstitutional laws overturned.
Under Chief Justice Rose Bird, the California Supreme Court stuck down a whole bunch of Victorian Era "Red Light Abatement Laws", which allowed local authorities to close a business without anything like a jury trial or a conviction.
https://www.amazon.com/Bottom-Feeders-Fr…
But each decade new politicians write new laws to try and do the same things, arrest people, close businesses, and make it impossible for businesses to operate, without ever getting any convictions. The entire "Adult Entertainment" classification works this way, authorizing nothing which is not already perfectly legal, but imposing lots of new restrictions.
And I cite here the recent activities in Greensboro South Carolina, about how the issue is closing businesses without the need for a jury trial.
Thelonious Monk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_C…
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From Prohibition until 1967, a permit called the New York City Cabaret Identification Card was required of all workers, including performers, in New York City nightclubs. Their administration was fraught with politics, and some artists' cards were revoked on specious grounds. For many performers, the revocation of their cabaret card resulted in the loss of their livelihood. Those of Chet Baker, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk,[1] Jackie McLean,[2] Elmo Hope, Billy Higgins[3] and Billie Holiday[4] were suspended because of drug charges, and that of Lenny Bruce for his reputed obscenity.
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Now, about TJ, that is an entirely different situation. Those are health exam records. That tradition goes back a long way too. As I know, used to be little pink booklets, where their record of exam stamps would go. Today, a plastic card with a magnetic strip.
Anyone who has seen this first hand and can confirm it?
But these are not licenses for dancing in a strip club, these are licenses for practicing prostitution. Not at all like the US licensing of strip club dancers.
I would say that there is a public interest in these health exams.
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Very difficult to have such required health exams in the US, if sex acts are considered prostitution and outlawed.
https://www.amazon.com/Guaymas-Chronicle…
SJG
Thelonious Monk - Live In Paris 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sswp02n…
Oops, Greenville South Carolina
SJG
The Byrds - Eight Miles High - 9/23/1970 - Fillmore East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ymkBEhd…