I'm interested in finding out how old everyone is if they would care to partake... And I'm kind of thinking there are a lot more men on here than women...
I'll start I'll be 64 in January I work from when I was 17-24... Then I worked again from when I was 35 to 50...
I’m still middle age 70
I'm 52 and now feeling young compared to Shadowcat at twentyfive.
51
Discovered lap dances 6.5 years ago. 39 years after 1st strip club visit. Wrote an article about my slow learning.
75 till next month.
1st visit to Lou Turks, Essington in the early 80's as a 20 something. Guess that pegs me as a Boomer.
63 and still feel (at least mentally) like I'm 33--in large part thanks to my favorite club and all the wonderful experiences I have had with its dancers in their 20s.
I’m about Minnow’s age. I caught the fever in the early 80s at the Oasis on Admiral Wilson Blvd in Camden.
Just turned 60
61, late 80's 90's were okay but I didn't take off until the 2010s.
I have a brain teaser for Honey Melons and Stud: I watched the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing live on TV as a very impressionable teenager. What is the possible range of my age now ?
I'm fairly young by this board's standards at just 41.
Early 60s. First time I met any strippers was at a house party in the early 80s. My friend worked at The Gap, which was actually the "in" store back then, and strippers were among their best customers. My first time in a strip club was a couple years later. It was just stage dancing, and then the dancers would circulate and chat and drink with the customers. Didn't appeal to me much. Chatting I got for free, I was The King of The Friendzone. Tried it again in the 90s. There was now table as well as stage dancing. Most of the dancers were touring dancers, who did their time in the gym and under the plastic surgeon's knife. Still not very appealing. I started seeing escorts, the two I liked the best had been dancers, who switched to escorting after having kids and turning 30. I tried a strip club again in the 2000's, and now there was lap dancing, which I found worth going for. As I got older, I found lap dancers to be more my speed than escorts.
Literally a baby compared to everyone else here at 28
Low side of 50s. @Minnow having memory of seeing the Apollo 11 moon landing live! elevates him to ultra legendary. It’s a stark contrast with my big sci-space memory being the space shuttle Columbia exploding shortly after takeoff. (a distant second being the childhood memory of the media lunacy of Sky Lab is falling)
Just over 40. Didn’t realize I was one of the younger posters…
Same age as Jaime Lee Curtis
63
I'm about to turn 35.
I told you my age earlier, but here’s a little known fact, i watched Ed Sullivan introduce both Elvis Presley and the Beatles on Television both on black and white televisions, and I saw Elvis’s final performance on live television in color. In between I watched the Moon landing, and the Challenger explosion.
^^ I was a little too young for Elvis but I was aware of the Beatles playing at Shea Stadium - it was big news even for a little kid.
I was a little kid, but I remember watching the moon landing with my whole family on a tiny black and white TV in a place my parents would rent for a week or 2 at the Jersey shore. I was in class as a freshman in college when a priest walk into our class and said President Reagan was shot. He led a prayer for the President and class was dismissed.
@shadowcat seems you are...
@gSteph I will try and read the article
@minnow I have a story about Lou,s Will post in the future...54-60
@Studme53 never worked there but was at the French Quarter 95-97
@ilbbaicnl I see that you have been through some of the changes over the years as have I I have only known two bars that you worked on top of the bar itself and the rest were stage dancing... And of course the stage dancing the customers either rolled up their money and threw it on the stage to you or made little airplanes or gave it to the bartender and the bartender handed it to you or if the stage and the bar were pretty much in close proximity to each other the customer and you could reach out and hand it over Then I wound up working at The Red Raven and here they just had the stage in the middle and you were allowed to go around the inside of the bar and collect tips that way but you still weren't allowed to sit with the customers or really chat with the customers and you went just back in the dressing room to get ready for your next set and that's pretty much how it went for the rest of my early career that bars will still set up that way there was no table dancing no VIP rooms or anything of that nature at least in any of the places I've worked and as you tell I've worked at a lot of places in Philadelphia bucks county and New Jersey
Now when I came back to dancing I believe the first two bars I worked at was Dangerous Curves so kind of like a completely different setup big huge bar big stage and you were allowed to go on the outside of the bar to make money I didn't know if they had VIP rooms at that time or not I know I didn't do any of that of course I didn't know in fact when I came back to dancing and I did my first set on the stage I was wearing a beautiful two-piece bra and panty set from Victoria's secrets and had stockings on well anyway I dance my little heart out... So after I was done I was allowed to go around and collect my tips and then I went to the dressing room to get dressed after that you know went into the manager's office to see if they liked me and give me a schedule... Well the first thing out of the manager's mouth was do you take your bra off... And it took me back for a second and I'm thinking do I take my bra off so it didn't even register and I'm thinking what is he asking me do I take my bra off and I think he said something to the effect that the girls Go topless here and I didn't really understand what that meant because I'm from the old school where nobody went topless and if you didn't have a top one you had pasties on... And I think I just answered them yeah I can do that and we laughed and I worked there for a few years... And I worked there for a short time after it was Club Risque... Which at this point of time there was couch dancing VIP room and who knows what else went on... I also have a very interesting story about this bar which I will post sometime in the future
Almost 66. I still remember JFK's funeral and what a big deal it was in Boston. It was on tv and cancelled cartoons. I was distraught.
@motorhead got love Jamie... I remember Elvis and Beatles songs but don't recall the memory of seeing Elvis or the Beatles... My earliest recollection of hearing and seeing someone singing songs of that time was Tom Jones my mother loved him and of course my dad hated him but of course he loved Joey Heatherton... And as for the Beatles my oldest brother well technically is not my oldest brother he was my step brother...my dad was married three times so I have to explain that his first wife he had a son and a daughter... Then he married my mother which I'm the oldest than unfortunately I had a baby sister right after me and not really sure what she died of but she didn't even make it out of the hospital but I guess they call that sudden infant death syndrome now... And then she popped out three boys within a few years so I Believe by the time she was 25 she had four for her own kids and two for my dad's previous marriage... Then after she left a few years later he married another woman well I'm not sure if they actually even married but she's actually the mother that raised me from 6 years old until 16 I would say after that kind of was on my own doing my own thing partially living with my half sister from my dad's first marriage Well anyway when it comes to the Beatles my step brother who was collecting Beatles albums from the very start so he had all first issue recordings well a few years later he got married a month or so later his wife left him for a drummer in a band and she took all of this beatle albums... So that really sucked because they would have been worth a pretty penny in today's market... I buy and sell albums so I know the worth...
@HDM Do you have any experience in NYC, or LI that was where I grew up, and went to many strip clubs during my mostly misspent, younger days? My familiarity with strip clubs is mostly in those areas during the 70s and 80s- early 90s
@twentyfive... In my younger years just in Philly and Bucks and then in my later years Philly Bucks New Jersey and Daytona Beach.. and I know what you mean by misspent use if I wasn't working in a bar I was drinking in bars that I wasn't working at unbelievable how many beautiful summer days went by of course if you have to work you work but just to still be hanging around in a bar on days that you're not even working and I wasn't even a big drinker That's where all my friends went so that's where I went and even when vacation going down to the Jersey shore what did you do you drank you drank all day went to the clubs at night and you still drank some more and like I said I wasn't like a big drinker so I'm sure I had my fair share but just think of all those wasted days and wasted nights of drinking your life away.. in fact I can tell you what I drank and I'm really not sure what the drinking age was at the time I'm pretty sure 21 and I was a far cry from 21 and I'm sure I didn't look 21 but down the shore me and my girlfriend will wear the shortest shorts and the skimpiest little bra top and we would go right in and pick up our two bottles of wine which were called the $1.9 wine and if I had a little bit more money with me I used to get this brand which didn't actually tell you the flavor it just had cool names and was about 50 cents more so if anybody could figure out what brand that was I believe that brand is no longer being sold for a long time but the dollar nine wine brand is still being sold but of course different flavors...
I was in art class in junior high school at the age of 13 when hearing JFK was assassinated.
and in navy boot camp when Apollo landed on the moon the first time.
The reputation for Lou Turks back in the 80s was that the customer could perform oral sex on the dancer while she was nude on stage or the bar. Gotta admit that did not appeal to me at all and I never went there - so I can’t confirm.
Harry was President when I was born in NJ.
I saw my first naked woman when I was 15 at the Gaiety Burlesque in Cincinnati. Traveling strippers, on stage, in fancy costumes with a five-piece orchestra. Cost $1.80 to enter. I've been practicing this hobby for 64 years. I really miss the 'tease' part of stripping.
@skibum609 I can see being distraught over cancellation of the Saturday morning cartoons LOL
@PhredJohnson...Harry who...I know...that's going way back...
@Techman...awesome old time Burlesque Troupe...with orchestra..awesome...$1.80 holy smolly...stripping isn't what it used to be for sure... I did a little bit of everything in my stage show beautiful costumes what I could afford at the time most of my stuff came from Frederick's of Hollywood... Some costumes we're handmade... I did lots of styles of dancing go go jazz disco burlesque striptease belly dancing hula dancing also throwing in a mix of other types of dancing along with Riverdance...
My age all depends on the part of my my body. Above the waist I'm middle age and below the waist I'm 18.
I remember going to the French Quarter in about 1990 and meeting Chanel, who was probably about 18 at the time, cute, with a body as tight as a drum. She would keep dancing for another 30 years, spending most of the latter part of her career at Club Risqué Bristol. She keep herself incredibly fit and had a top notch body into her late 40s. She retired a couple years ago but I’d bet she still looks good.
Back when there was a draft, the drinking age 18. It was hard to say, if you were old enough to be forced into combat, you weren't old enough to drink. It wasn't till the mid 80s that the Federal government finished blackmailing all the states into raising the drinking age to 21.
Great discussion post. I’m 59 and the first bars and nightclubs I experienced in my 20’s were in Miami in ‘80’s. And I lived to tell the tale.
67, although my female optometrist just told me she thought for sure I was in my young 50s. Afterwards I realized she probably was talking about my retinas/lenses, not my face/body. Oh well.
64
I am on the younger side...of shadowcat. 11 years younger.
51
62...... on the inside..... ~ 50 on the outside... and 22 in my mind.
77 in Nov. First experience was in Atlantic City at the Globe burlesque in 63. I was working in OC and my buddy in AC. It was so titillating. Then later in the late 60s, the Block in Baltimore. Saw Busty Russel. Also a burlesque house in DC where Wilbur Mills' gf worked. From there SCs whereever I travelled. Saw one comment about DATY on the bar at Lou Turks, heard about that but never saw it there but did see it in a bar in NYC. Loved the 42nd & 7th in NYC before fuckwad Giuliani "cleaned it up". Now pretty much only local clubs in PA and NJ. Hats off to the Founder and this site.
Early 40s
I'm surprised that there are so many late 60s and up guys here. For my own privacy I'll just say I am younger than many here but also far from the youngest.
Early 30s? At that age I was prowling the civie world and except for a few times never considered strip clubs but that was just me.
72 here. Like 25 I watched the Beatles and Elvis on the black and white Ed Sullivan show. Also, the guy who's act consisted of spinning s bunch of plates on poles.....
Late Boomer here. I was too young during the seminal experiences for the majority of boomers: the Kennedy assassination, Beatlemania, Vietnam draft eligibility, Woodstock. When I was 16 and 17, I was listening to Wire, the Talking Heads, the Clash, the Buzzcocks, etc. more than I was listening to Hendrix, Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc. from at least decade earlier.
@datinman yeah +1 about the Vietnam War. When I was in elementary school, all us boys took it for granted we were going to do our time as soldiers. US history was presented to us emphasizing the wars, so we also took it for granted we'd see combat somewhere. But, for a boy at that age, it seemed cool, given how WWII was generally portrayed in movies. By the time I was in high school, howevef, I was no longer expecting to be drafted, or to volunteer. A bit of a scare in my 20s, that Reagan was going to draft us to fight in El Salvador, but turned out to be overblown. Very different from the more typical male boomer experience. Of having to do military service, or figuring out how to avoid it. But the military was very different for Boomers than for the WWII generation. Combat MOSs were down from about 50% to 20%. If you were on track to be a white collar worker, you were unlikely to see combat unless you actively sought it. Blue collar guys were considered very expendable in Vietnam. They were already on their way to being made redundant by automation and globalization.
Music-wise, other than being into Prince, I was pretty solidly Boomer. Jimi, Stones, Zep, Beatles,, Janis, and such.
^ Why would you be worried about the draft it officially ended in 1973 ? Make no sense what you said.
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25, "I was TOO YOUNG during the seminal experiences for the majority of boomers: the Kennedy assassination, Beatlemania, Vietnam draft eligibility, Woodstock. " I was an infant when Kennedy was assassinated, a toddler during Beatlemania, I never had to worry about being sent to Vietnam, and Woodstock was a movie I saw 10 years after the event. Sorry if my phrasing left you confused.
My comment was intended for ilbbainci regarding the stupid remarks about being worried about Reagan drafting him to fight in El Salvador, which was 15-20 years after Nixon ended compulsory conscription to the US armed forces
My bad, sorry.
I think the draft is a good thing. service can help one mature.
but I also think that wars are a bad thing. especially for economics and political abuse... and a power grab by some.
I hadn’t looked at this thread in awhile and it took a odd turn.
For what it’s worth, I fell into the unique group of never having to register for Selective Service
“Men born between 29 March 1957, and 31 December 1959, were completely exempt from Selective Service registration”
764 years old in stripper years. However, I feel like I'm 1,356 years old.
@BY hang in there kiddo. Life is full of crazy ups and downs. The good breaks come out of nowhere just like the bad ones do.
I've heard a lot of dancers talk about phlebotomist as a good follow-on occupation, as long as you can tolerate the sight of blood. The training is very short, well under a year, they say. One dancer I knew became a surgical assistant. But she was a bit of a brainiac, you have to memorize hundreds of pieces of equipment, I don't think I could do it. Probably anything in Allied Health would work out well if you liked it. The classes are at community college, so less expensive. You can get student loans if you need to, and not end up with crazy debt. If you pick a specialty with patient interaction, being a stripper means you're already use to having to interact with a lot of strangers.
The dancer who became a surgical assistant said, when you tell people you were a stripper, half freak, and half are like "dang, cool". That was more than 10 years ago, so probably even fewer freak-outs now.
I knew a stripper who had become a car mechanic (after she got out of prison). It's one of many skilled trades you can learn at community college, in 2 years or less. She said the sexual harassment was more than she wanted to deal with. She ended up stripping (where it's a least expensive for people to sexually harass you lol). She fixed the cars of the people who worked at the club, for a good price. But that was more than 10 years ago, hopefully things are better now. And she probably was stuck working at seedier repair places, because of her prison record. Last I heard, she lives in Detroit now. She probably fits in well, she felt more naked not being strapped than she did with her clothes off lol.
Treinta
30 in nicespice years is 22 in regular people years.
Billy Joel said it best “Only the good die young”
@ilbbaicnl, I already have two college degrees and almost a third. I've worked a few professional jobs while dancing. I'm currently considering substitute teaching since I could make my own schedule still and work whenever I want.
@BY sorry, I did the guy, I'll cool it with the unsolicited suggestions. I don't mean to make you feel uncomfortable for sounding sad when you're feeling sad, and not wanting to bare you're soul about it.
Didn't mean the kiddo to be demeaning. Unless you're Joe Biden, you're probably a kiddo compared to me.
^ it's okay. I wrote that when I had just woken up and was out of it. I've been sick and physically miserable for two weeks with a sinus infection, so my reading comprehension is kinda out the window right now. For real, I had a fever from a damn sinus infection + laryngitis. Wtf. Tested negative for COVID and flu twice. And I'm on my second round of antibiotics.
Argh, hope you feel better soon.
Bubble sinus infections are killer and basic antibiotics no longer work on them. My wife usually has to do 2-3 rounds of antibiotics before she is cured. Staying well-hydrated is a preventative.
^^^Scotch will clear your sinuses faster
As I was slowly getting out of dancing I just worked in retail for a couple of years then I somehow switched over to being a caregiver then I just took a couple of courses and stuff and became a CNA then I went to work in a hospital working in the kitchen and delivering food to the patients and making way more money than being a CNA and had every benefit under the Sun pulled my money together bought a rental property now I've been retired for a few years
Real age 38. Strip club age 20
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77 I have been going to strip clubs, escorts etc for at least 40 years. I have always enjoyed tender touch intimacy vs the usual sex stuff.
I've said before I started on TUSCL in my 20's and that was about 20 years ago. Spent my first money on strippers in my teens because clubs in my town didn't card (and didn't care) back then. I'd say the age range for women I find genuinely attractive is 20's to 50's.
18 to 20 year olds are usually a no fly zone for me because they can't drink and aren't that interesting to talk with unless I'm setting things up to get in their panties. And at this point unless I somehow lose my mind and want to keep them around it's not fair or fun to mess with women at that age. I don't need the drama.
I am 66 and started strip clubbing 49 years ago. I started skiing 43 years ago. I liked skiing more then and I like it more now.
~4 hours older than Pamela Anderson
turned 64 today
I believe I am the most senior poster on here. I turned 81 last January.