8 Mile Blues

It's curtains!

Dancers are leaving Penthouse for suburban clubs.

Coliseum still has curtains. This was confirmed in a review that got posted yesterday. However, I would not expect them to have the curtains up much longer.

Also, AFAIK, Players still has their beaded curtains. This is just an assuption. It has been a while since that club had been reviewed, and I have not been there since my visit last summer during 4th of July weekend.

Either way, given the news that Penthouse had to take the curtains down, it seems obvious that in the near future, no club within the Detroit city limits will have a private VIP. There will obviously be a decrease in extras happening at Detroit city clubs, but it will not go away completely as both dancers and customers will still engage in extras out in the open where others can see it happening.

The worst case scenario I see happening is the strip club scene in Detroit will be very much like it is in Toronto, ie all the clubs that are in the Detroit city limits will become stricly non-extras while all the clubs in the suburbs near the airport will continue to be rich with extras.

All I know is I almost missed maybe flight out of the D this morning because of all the additional foot traffic at the airport because of the Auto Show!

Won't be the first time, nor last, a city goes after the strip-clubs and severely impacts them or kills them off.

This is all part of the Detroit strip club scene. It has happened at least 3 times in the last 25 years. The city wants to "clean out" things, it happens, clubs go into a decline. They've always have come back. Some clubs won't survive.

Vince is right. This will pass

Unintended consequences?

There was a time when I used to avoid travel to or through Detroit. But then I discovered the merits of the Detroit strip club scene (with help from TUSCL among other sources) and started going out of my way to schedule meetings and other activities that took me to Detroit. If many others follow my pattern, this effort will have some unintended economic consequences for Detroit (business bankruptcy, conference and convention attendance declines, less travel and less tax revenue). I'd like to think that our political leaders had considered these factors, or at least had the foresight to track the economic impact of these efforts to regulate the strip clubs--- I know better than to give our political (and moral) leaders that much credit.
One other unintended consequence is that it will drive some of the dancers to other, less safe venues to ply their trade (as in the streets, escort sites, etc.).

Detroit city politics and politicians are a complete joke. Have been for decades. And I don’t see it changing.

I laugh every time I see some city council member get up and spout off on tv about “cleaning things up” or acting all high and mighty. Meanwhile, they are all, in once form or another, on the take and getting kickbacks, bribes, “donations” to something they want money for.
Think those “donations” don’t come with some type of political “favor”? If you do, you are either naive or kidding yourself.

This type of shit happens from time to time in the Detroit city limits.

Warhawks is right, it's like watching the hypocrites here.

I think its cyclical right now Channel 7 is being all sanctimonious about "Human Trafficking" occurring in conjunction with the North American Auto show... probably other media as well. Things will be back when the media attention dies off.

Yeah, I don’t know. For the last 3-4 years now all we’ve read is about this club and that club no longer having private VIP areas so not following how this is related to an upcoming auto show or a recent news story. The removal of private VIPs has been a 3-4 year trend, and now the once thought of immune Penthouse club has had to succumb. Would love to think the removal of Penthouses’ curtains is a temporary hiccup, but it’s been a trend taking place in the city for years now.

Interested to hear what Penthouse is like right now. Also interested in reports from Coliseum and the recently open club Truth - does Truth have curtains.

Has anyone been to the Truth club yet?

I can confirm that Players, as a sister club to where I work, still has it's beaded curtains up. One of the bouncers I'm close with told me they're coming down eventually, but that's all I could get out of him without trying to obviously dig for dirt.
Coliseum's curtains are also still up.
I've heard Truth does not have curtains either. I follow the agent for there on Instagram and it appears to be similar to Legends in terms of stage rain and a party atmosphere.

I've noticed the Auto Show mentioned as, perhaps, part of the reason for the timing.

Was there any crackdown when the Super Bowl was in Detroit? The media focused on that one "mobile strip club," but I'm wondering what it was like at the more monger-friendly clubs. They typically do more stings in the Super Bowl city around the big game. I wonder if it was business as usual, if there was more business, if customers stayed away because of fear of stings, etc.

There's a certain large college basketball tournament coming to Detroit this March, which makes me wonder if that plays in.

One company I worked for specifically moved their North American HQ to Atlanta for 2 reasons:
1) easy access to air travel
2) abundance of adult entertainment for visiting dignitaries and customers

".. Has anyone been to the Truth club yet ...

Truth be told I haven't

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Also, you're damn right I ordered the Code Red.

Regarding joc13: It will be interesting to see if other companies abandon Detroit in favor of other more entertaining cities.