Mom & Pop strip clubs and interactions with their owners
Muddy
USA
You see a lot of the chain strip clubs out there, (the Seattle guys bitch about this alot) and maybe they have franchisee owners I don't know how it works but that really ain't the same thing. What have been some of your experiences if any, with the owners privately run strip clubs, where they call all the shots. Huge fucking dickheads? Cool dudes? I'm sure a lot of times I've been to clubs the bartender is running is the show is the whole kit and kaboodle, manager, bouncer, bartender, owner,
I used to hang at in Red Parrot in Texas. (Historically awesome strip club) The owner Darius Belcher, his brother Kevin Belcher played for the New York Giants in the 80's. You wouldn't even know this guy was the owner. Just some chill black dude at the bar all the time, when dancers would tell me at first that guy is the owner I said oh really. You kind of tell of much of dick head somebody is by how fearful or laid back those around him are, and nobody was at all, everyone carried on with business as usual fucking all out in the open, regular stuff.
I've seen Joe Redner at Mons and I was thinking to myself we have TOTALLY different tastes in girls, anorexia should not promoted.
I saw Alan Markowitz at Flight Club. I was talking to a dancer while he was walking around I was making fun of his mustache to her and she did NOT want to go down that road, AT ALL. She look frightened to go there and changed the subject. He definitely had presence, you could tell he owned the joint.
I ran into Danny Filippone the owner of Penthouse in Vancouver. Family's had the joint since the '40's, probably would make it the oldest in North America. All these celebrities from back in the day, they were selling a book on the history, "Liquor, Lust and the Law" I was actually drunk enough to buy it for $20, but he was pretty cool dude and signed it at the bar. (is it disrespectful to be reading a book at the tip rail? probably but fuck it) He's big on having those crazy marquees with jokes on them.
At Billy Dean's showtime Cafe in Bellmore, Long Island. This is the closest strip club to where I grew up. The owner is the namesake Billy Dean, he's like some former male dancer or some shit. Anyway at the bar, he's the bartender when your get a drinking, nicest guy, and he'll come out from behind the bar at the stage and yell "How's everyone doing tonight?!?! And the crowd responds with "YEAAAAAHHHH!" But he's Jekyll and Hydish I've seen this dude chew out loudly his bouncers in front of everybody and he's interrupted dances I've down by pulling back the curtain, hey maybe yell in times up??? Somebody has to tell this dude he's doing waaaay too much and needs to fall the fuck back.
Would love to hear some owner interactions out there from y'all, be it good or bad.
I used to hang at in Red Parrot in Texas. (Historically awesome strip club) The owner Darius Belcher, his brother Kevin Belcher played for the New York Giants in the 80's. You wouldn't even know this guy was the owner. Just some chill black dude at the bar all the time, when dancers would tell me at first that guy is the owner I said oh really. You kind of tell of much of dick head somebody is by how fearful or laid back those around him are, and nobody was at all, everyone carried on with business as usual fucking all out in the open, regular stuff.
I've seen Joe Redner at Mons and I was thinking to myself we have TOTALLY different tastes in girls, anorexia should not promoted.
I saw Alan Markowitz at Flight Club. I was talking to a dancer while he was walking around I was making fun of his mustache to her and she did NOT want to go down that road, AT ALL. She look frightened to go there and changed the subject. He definitely had presence, you could tell he owned the joint.
I ran into Danny Filippone the owner of Penthouse in Vancouver. Family's had the joint since the '40's, probably would make it the oldest in North America. All these celebrities from back in the day, they were selling a book on the history, "Liquor, Lust and the Law" I was actually drunk enough to buy it for $20, but he was pretty cool dude and signed it at the bar. (is it disrespectful to be reading a book at the tip rail? probably but fuck it) He's big on having those crazy marquees with jokes on them.
At Billy Dean's showtime Cafe in Bellmore, Long Island. This is the closest strip club to where I grew up. The owner is the namesake Billy Dean, he's like some former male dancer or some shit. Anyway at the bar, he's the bartender when your get a drinking, nicest guy, and he'll come out from behind the bar at the stage and yell "How's everyone doing tonight?!?! And the crowd responds with "YEAAAAAHHHH!" But he's Jekyll and Hydish I've seen this dude chew out loudly his bouncers in front of everybody and he's interrupted dances I've down by pulling back the curtain, hey maybe yell in times up??? Somebody has to tell this dude he's doing waaaay too much and needs to fall the fuck back.
Would love to hear some owner interactions out there from y'all, be it good or bad.
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I grew up in the area near where Billy Deans is now back then it was the Newbridge Inn and was pretty much a neighborhood bar, and they serves pretty good Italian food and pizza, I left the area long before the place became Billy Deans, but we used to get beer there before we were old enough to drink.
A different owner I knew, also for a closed down club, seemed like the biggest horse's ass I ever met, which may account for why his club fell off a cliff and possibly why he died. (I always assumed he committed suicide, but I don't know and lost contact with all the dancers I knew there who would know.)
The owner of the Hip Hugger in Kokomo IN doesn’t look like your stereotypical club owner either. Only just ever exchanged “hello” with him. The dancers seemed to like him.
There was a small club out in the middle of no where in Michigan that got shut down for prostitution. I only ever went there once - never even offered a dance. You definitely needed to be a regular. The owner supposedly was a woman but the word on the street was the money came from Chicago mobsters. I always thought it odd that a club that got busted for prostitution was run by a woman
I once thought I would like to own a strip club. But now I realize I was more suited to the boring office jobs I held for most of my career.
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