What are the last call for alcohol times at your favorite clubs?
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
In California its is 2:00 A.M. period. NO matter who you are. In Anchorage Alaska it used to be everybody was closed from 6:00 to 7:00 A.M. Not sure if that is still true. Nevada never closes. Ever hear a DJ say that the club would be open untill 4:00 or 6:00 A.M. or untill the last man leaves? I have never stayed that late at my favorite club in SC but was wondering what the law was. So I asked one of the bouncers. They can serve real alcohol untill 2:00 A.M. After that only beer and wine as long as the club sign is lit up. What about closed on Sundays? My favorite club in SC opens at 4:00 P.M. but most Atlanta clubs are closed. Since a few are open, this must not be a law. Go figure...
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As a matter of practicality, most strip clubs in the French Quarter close when the last customers straggle out at 4 or 6 AM, and they will often restrict alcohol sales after 4 AM because they basically don't want people to pass out in sleepiness on a couch.
On big weekends (Superbowl, Mardi Gras), I've seen FQ clubs just stay open right 'round the clock. Liquor sales are legal at all times. Many places outside the FQ (strip club or not) adhere to official closing hours, just because of staffing concerns (somebody's got to lock up!) and therefore impose a "last call" type of announcement just to get patrons up off their tookusses. But they aren't required to.
You can carry an alcoholic drink around on the street, too, as long as it's in a non-disposable and non-breakable container. Generally that means a "go-cup," which is simply a plastic tumbler drinking vessel. No cans or bottles or glass vessels. If you buy a souvenir hurricane-lamp-style glass with a hurricane drink (red Kool Aid and rum) in it, the bar staff will pour your remaining drink into a free go-cup and box up your souvenir glass and bag it for take-away. Very user-friendly.
I'm sure plenty of folk have experienced NOLa's libertine liberties, but I thought I'd describe them just for those who haven't. :)
At my age, I have never personally witnessed last call at PT's, nor do I intend to. Perhaps twenty years ago, when I was in my mid 20s, I might have tested that concept. Now, after about midnight I really need a compelling reason to stay at the club, regardless of the day of the week.
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of strip clubs I have closed down over the years--Colorado Bar & Grill in Houston--3:00 a.m. closing (my first visit to a strip club in my life; I literally couldn't tear myself away. I knew then and there that my life had been changed, although I still don't know if it was for good or bad--or both);
Brad's Brass Flamingo, Indy, twice--also 3:00 closing time. Once was only because a dancer wanted to come back to my hotel for fun, and I needed to lead her there after she got off of work.
Bare Elegance, LA, 1:30 a.m. mid-week closing time--shocked the hell out of me that it was that early. I guess that, as a Midwesterner, I assumed that everything in LA would be wide open, like Vegas. It's just as well...those dancers apparently needed, and got, their beauty sleep. That club stands out as having, dancer-for-dancer, the most attractive girls of any club I have been to.
Paradise, Houston (now closed)--3:00 a.m. closing time. I found myself in an upstairs VIP area that was essentially a whorehouse, and couldn't tear myself away from the Latina honey who had latched onto me. Twelve years later, I still remember the brown silver dollars.