Clubs that have closed
vincemichaels
Detroit
We've all gone to clubs that went out of business for sundry reasons. Are there any clubs you've been to that you miss ? Here in the Detroit area, the clubs are Wayne county clubs. I live in a neighboring county, Macomb which used to have a few clubs. One got torn down and is now just a place to fish on the shoreline of our Lake St. Clair, the Sail Inn was its' name and it wasn't fancy but it was close to home, another one down in Warren got put out of business when the owners were renovating and tried to put in changes that the building department had not approved, when they found out about it, they shut the place down. Now all we have is the Traffic Light out in the Mt. Clemens area. In Detroit,, Wayne county a long time ago on East 8 Mile was the Zoo Bar, a dump which had mud wrestling as it's attraction. The city finally closed it down, I went there once with a buddy, and it was a dive with hookers sitting at the bar trolling for business. Anderson Gardens near downtown Detroit was another hooker hangout, city closed it down, too. Oakland county, fageddabout it !! The county has stopped all attempts to open a strip club, there was a bikini bar once out in Pontiac, but it closed.
Any clubs that you used to patronize, now closed ???
Any clubs that you used to patronize, now closed ???
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The Wild Goose
Century Theatre (Nudes! Nudes! Nudes!)
Fritz That's It
Hawaii Theatre
Monarchs
The Wild Goose was the first stripclub that I ever went to, and that started me on this path of debauchery. In hindsight I don't know whether to love them or hate them.
The money was out of this world. Personally knew a dancer that said she only did extras for celebrities and her minimum was $1,000 and that was 25+ years ago. She drove a new Porsche, had a 27' cruiser on a local lake, pulled its trailer with her Range Rover and went traveling with customers all over the world.
But, the place was seriously mobbed up and the FBI shut it down.
Building demolished.
Hip Hugger, long term and much loved Sunnyvale club. Gone, building demolished.
Some of the bars for our underground Mexican circuit, gone or converted to Viet Coffee.
SJG
Al's Bar in Newark.
Club Phoenix in Asbury Park.
Stars and Bars in Long Branch. BYO nude bar. Some wild biker chicks.
Pumps in Keansburg (it has since reopened as Sinsations) Some of The Brazilians and Russians would happily give you head if you would drive them home to Newark or Elizabeth. It saved them the $60 car service. Tip them well and you often get invited to stay the night and breakfast in the morning.
But there were two in Arlington, TX that were forced to shut down a bit b/f I left the area at the end of 2009 - Arlington, TX is a smallish city in b/w Dallas and Ft Worth and had a nice strip club scene prior to 2010 when the new billion-dollar Dallas-Cowboys stadium opened in 2010 - I guess Jerry Jones did not want seedy businesses taking away from his glitzy investment - the city. although smallish. at one point I think had up to 14 SCs - now only one is listed on TUSCL and it has traditionally sucked - anyway in Arlington in the 2000s there was a club called "Fantasy Ranch" - great club w/ great variety - upscale-ish but not plush - nice selection of dancers from spinners to curvy girls along w/ a decent # of AAs (about 20% AA); and cool staff - it was a great club w/ a nice vibe and it was cozy like a big home - also in Arlington was a black-club that had tons of big-booties (thus it was my fave) called Peep-N-Toms.
Once you got in the tent, the only rule was that there were no rules.....
Did have a girl give me a nice BJ there once. Also had a girl give me literally the worst lap dance I ever had. They started out giving a bonus to girls who worked out there to try and get talent. They also suspended the cover in the winter to try and get customers. Once the girls realized there were only a few locals who only came in to have a drink and leave, the talent seemingly started turning over every couple weeks. The last couple visits I made were really dismal.
Whoever pitched that location to the higher-ups with the brand should have gotten canned.
yes. I forgot to include cheeks on my list. A Brazilian by the name of Laura will always have a special place in my memory
1. I concur with two of Lopaw's choices: Fritz and Hawaii. Even though I left L.A. before they closed, they were great clubs.
2. Now that I've been in the Puget Sound Region long enough to have seen some clubs close, I really miss Rick's in Seattle, and Honey's in Everett. Both closed in 2010, along with two others owned by the same company. (Major legal problems caused the simultaneous closure of all four.)
Did you ever hear of some club named Siloh's or Shilo's or something like that? It almost created a Detroit club war, from what I've been told.
There is still a bikini bar in Pontiac. There's no more Little David's or whatever the hell it was called but there is a bikini bar there now.
*my mom worked at Jon-Jon's a really long time ago.
My old favorite was a Bloomfield club Heartbreakers - and they tried to close that place down for years - they finally did and it was sad - as it was cheap and no holes barred upstairs.
There was a club in West Orange/Orange - I think it was called Spankys - not far from the Thomas Edison historical site - and it was a fun spot to hang out and drink - and the VIP area was filthy - but full service.
I think they also closed an old club (near Belleville) named The Red Shingle. It was in a residential area - and I doubt they wanted a club there. It was a fun spot - until I got tossed during a bachelor party.
I also miss Taj Mahal. They never got to completely realize their vision of a true full service gentleman's club (pool, gym, locker room, billiard room, dining room, barber, shoe shine, and of course hot strippers)