As a long time strip club enthusiast (try almost 25 years) this is the place where it started for me. I remember seeing the porn stars Jenna Jameson, Christy Canyon, Ginger Lynn, Jill Kelly feature dancing and getting polaroids/autographs. This was before the internet became big (circa 1997,1998) so they used to advertise the features in the local newspaper. Well these are the strip clubs I loved going to in SoCal.
Ecstasy Theatre in Santa Ana Sahara Theater in Anaheim Imperial Showgirls in Anaheim Spearmint Rhino in COI 4 Play Gentlemen's Club in LA Seventh Veil in LA Scamps in Westminster (now closed) - google.com
It's amazing after all this time most of the strip clubs I frequented are still open! But I doubt the dancers I used to see way back then are still dancing.
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I'd wait a while at least in la County
^ Is that why you were posting earlier today about it being hard to take southerners seriously? 😁
No. The way the south is just in general. The laws and punishments. Religion. Politics. At least its been changing in major cities
In its heyday (late 90s), I'd put the City of Industry clubs (Spearmint Rhino, Hawaii Theatre and The Boss Club, which was a hostess club) as the absolute mecca for high contact laps in LA. Even the second tier clubs in the area (Deja Vu, Synn, Paradise Theater) often had well above-average caliber of talent. The bed dances at either Deja Vu North Hollywood or Spearmint Rhino way out in Rialto had to be experienced to be believed. Yes, bed-freaking-dances. I won't even talk about Rhino-Industry's first VIP rooms, where you could actually lock the door and there were no windows or cameras to intrude on your privacy.
For topless clubs, I miss Fritz That's It in Bellflower )=(lost its lease) and The Mustang in Santa Ana (burned down in a mob turf war).
Good times.
What's up w/ the black Gardena clubs - most of them closed pre-Covid and only King Henry VIII remained but seems KH8 did not make it thru the pandemic (no reviews)? Seems as if the city wanted to ax their clubs?
Have any SoCal clubs picked up the slack w.r.t. having a good # of black-dancers?
There are black parties... ace of diamonds and dollhouse are weekly parties.
^ are those clubs listed on TUSCL?
@ scrub: Everything went on in the bed dances. Not all dancers, of course, but yeah.
Papi I don't know. They're parties rather than clubs. There's also a Thursday party at kandylandia which isn't on tuscl. Ace of diamonds used to be a club but now it's Mondays at cheetahs in Hollywood
Ecstasy was still pretty good ~10 years ago with hot girls, high mileage and the regions highest lap dance prices. I remember they were $60 per song back then, but then reduced to $50 when quality started slipping.
Loved the SR in Rialto bed dances
“ there is no sex in the Champagne room.”
Ecstasy Theater was the club I settled on in my younger days. The price for the back rooms was the same as the booths but had more privacy. Songs were $50 each and the girls got $25 of that so they were encouraged to work for tips. I was able to have sex with a few girls there; a lot of girls offered once you went into the third song. I think I went once every 9 months and paid for about 9 songs and tipped the 10th.
Here's a pic from the City of Industry Spearmint Rhino - ibb.co . The year was 1998.
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