How many clubs have closed in your city?
docsavage
Indiana
I noticed here that there are 2143 strip clubs in the U.S. and it got me wondering how that has changed over the years. Are there more or fewer clubs now in the city you live in and if there is a change in the number is it more because of old clubs closing or because new clubs are or aren't opening? In my own city of Indianapolis I count 17 clubs currently operating. I know of three clubs closing in the last ten years and no new clubs opening so that means a drop from 20 to 17. The last new club I know that opened here may be PT's. That opened in the nineties and that was actually a situation where it moved from the west side to the east side so it wasn't really new to the city.
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The chances of any new clubs opening in this area are pretty much zero due to restrictive zoning codes. The two remaining nearby clubs are grandfathered in.
For comparison:
Movie theaters in U.S. - 5,747
McDonald's in U.S. - 14,146
Regular bars/nightclubs in U.S. - 69,987
1320 Club II. I truly do miss that place!
So I guess they are going away.
We have three I frequent and five more I don't. They've all been around as long as I've been clubbing, nearly two decades. A few rebrands, but never any disappearances. No real additions, either.
One club in the metro area, well out of town, came and went within two years. But that's about it in terms of changes I've seen.
I once took a friend that was not experienced in strip clubs. We were both in our 20s and had lots of attention from the girls. He got a lap dance from a smoking hot Russian girl. After one song, she asked him if he wanted her to stop. After three more songs, I made eye contact and asked him if he was good spending so much of his club budget on one girl. He stopped her there. He apparently didn’t know the fee was per song. We still laugh about it.
I would expect to see more clubs up north close as the cities that they are in continue to lose employers and affluent portions of their populations. Conversely, I think that demand for clubs in places like TX and FL will continue to rise as people flock to these states.
Also, it seems some clubs close, reopen, repeat. The only thing that really changes is the owners and the name, otherwise it is the same club.
Pleasers in Atlanta burned down about 3 years ago never to reopen
I assume you have a carry permit, and if so, you don't ALWAYS have a round chambered?
Understood. We certainly don't wish to discuss anything here other than strip clubs!
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Now some areas are also getting hit with a loss of affluent population, more stringent strip club regulation or both. Michigan and Connecticut are two good examples of both. But there are still plenty of areas where club are thriving largely unfettered by governmental interference, including some that are also experiencing significant population gain. Florida is a good example, as is parts of Texas.
I will tell you that, in my current locale, some of the girls are starting to make more money than they have in a long time. Simply put, the clubs that I frequent are getting busier, especially with the after-work and weekend crowds. It sucks in some respects as my OTC costs are going up, but there it is. If we can sustain this level of economic and wage growth for a few more years, I think we will see a further increase in the number of clubs in areas that allow it, especially those that also have growing populations.
So, in a nutshell, while I don't discount the competition for adult entertainment dollars provided by cam sites, SA and other venues, I also don't think that they will come anywhere close to completely displacing strip clubs, just like they weren't circa 2006. Maybe that will change when another option can replicate the combination of in person interactions, flexibility and anonymity (including no electronic trail) that strip clubs offer, but none of the current options do. Seeing what I am seeing locally, including how packed they were when a recent NFL playoff game hosted close by, tells me that there is still demand for the product, even if there is still less right now than the boom times of the 90s and 2000s.
Clubs get shut down, burn down, or change names. It's like a game of survivor and cities close down clubs it seems with every chance they get.
And then of our underground Mexican Bar circuit, which comes and goes. Now around half of the bars are closed, and buildings demolished.
Then Deja Vu taking over SF Market St. Cinema, the most off the hook of the SF clubs, now closed and demolished.
And then there was T's San Jose.
And then this new San Jose Gold Club, don't know what is up. Not listed on TUSCL.
Website up
http://www.goldclubsj.com/
But street view shows what I think was an old night club business.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3356285,…
SJG
+ Vixens - Davie, FL (near Ft Lauderdale) - owned by the person that owned Scarlett's in Hallandale (Scarlett's was sold in 2017 to Rick's Corp which owns Tootsies and 40+ SCs nationwide)
+ E11even (big 24-hour club in Downtown Miami) - popular w/ the party/bottle-poppin' late-night crowd and pro-athletes - interestingly it has 67 TUSCL reviews but 265 Yelp reviews
+ Double Dees (hour-north of Miami in West Palm Beach) - fairly upscale and large brand-new building - it has been moderately successful but seems to not exactly be killing-it
+ Wonderland - on Biscayne Blvd - an area notorious for prostitution back in the day - for many years the building housed an adult movie theater - this club seemed to wanna be like E11even (upscale and kinda the place for the party-heavy South Beach crowd) but they were never able to really establish themselves and also had issues w/ LE - the area has gotten cleaned-up from what it used to be back in the day but still not great - Yelp has this club listed as closed and I would not be surprised if it is - need to drive by this weekend and verify so I can report it closed on TUSCL
Klub 24 - opened Jan 2018 - 24-hr spot - club kinda on the edge of the hood - early reports is that it's expensive but for now it's not necessarily delivering so I have my doubts if it will survive (at least as an expensive 24-hr club)
South Fl clubs that have closed in the last few years:
- Flavors - black club in an old small shopping center - supposedly the small restaurant next-door kitchen caught fire taking out the club w/ it (been a year+ since this happened and the club is "supposed" to reopen but it's not looking good)
- Angels - all black club in North Miami - was pretty-popular in the context of a small black club - not sure why it closed
- Vivid Live - Upscale club that seemed to think they were gonna be the new "it club" in town - lasted less than a year - became a gay dance-club - originally was supposed to be called "Club Wet" - seems a rash of new clubs tried using the Vivid (well-known porn studio) brand-name thinking it would make them an "it club" but has not worked-out
+ Club Pink Pussycat - had been around since the 70s I think - closed about 5-years ago - not sure why - the building was old AF and supposedly it closed "for renovations" but nothing has reopened in the building and it remains vacant