Houston Clubs Converting to Bikini Bars...
Anna
With the dark cloud of Ike approaching Houston, I decided to make a trip to Dallas to avoid the Y2K-style shopping, power disruption,city curfew and closed bars and restaurants that are inevitable when a storm system brews in the Gulf of Mexico.
I am well rested and i think things are viable enough to return to Houston and get to work so i packed today and planned to make the trip tomorrow. Around ten pm I received a frantic call from one of my regular customers who is in town for 3 days a month from New Orleans. He was humiliated when he brought clients to one of the clubs I work at...and it is a bikini bar. I suggested two other clubs and gave him a few trustworthy servers' names.
He called me back just now, and I gave him a summary of what Google and The Houston Chronicle had to say. Basically they are finally trying to enforce the SOB regulations set over ten years ago and closed The Penthouse Club September 10, 2008. This action struck fear into the hearts of Houston club owners I assume...since all the clubs I sent my customer to were "bikini bars"[this means the bikini stays on...all night].
This seems like a serious waste of resources when there are more serious crimes needing attention. Dancers already have to attain SOB licenses to work in the city limits and of course pay the annual fee complete with being on public record as an Entertainer which I consider a disturbing form of regulation and invasion of privacy. I guess I will just have to see for myself. I hate to say this but, similar to the closure of Platinum Plus in Memphis, it feels like the ending of an era.
One of the best articles I found:
http://vasthead.com/Topless/topless.htm
Another one:
http://www.houstonpress.com/1997-01-23/n…
I am well rested and i think things are viable enough to return to Houston and get to work so i packed today and planned to make the trip tomorrow. Around ten pm I received a frantic call from one of my regular customers who is in town for 3 days a month from New Orleans. He was humiliated when he brought clients to one of the clubs I work at...and it is a bikini bar. I suggested two other clubs and gave him a few trustworthy servers' names.
He called me back just now, and I gave him a summary of what Google and The Houston Chronicle had to say. Basically they are finally trying to enforce the SOB regulations set over ten years ago and closed The Penthouse Club September 10, 2008. This action struck fear into the hearts of Houston club owners I assume...since all the clubs I sent my customer to were "bikini bars"[this means the bikini stays on...all night].
This seems like a serious waste of resources when there are more serious crimes needing attention. Dancers already have to attain SOB licenses to work in the city limits and of course pay the annual fee complete with being on public record as an Entertainer which I consider a disturbing form of regulation and invasion of privacy. I guess I will just have to see for myself. I hate to say this but, similar to the closure of Platinum Plus in Memphis, it feels like the ending of an era.
One of the best articles I found:
http://vasthead.com/Topless/topless.htm
Another one:
http://www.houstonpress.com/1997-01-23/n…
8 comments
It's too bad, really.
So, where are all the girls who need / want the income going to now? Dallas? Maybe across the state line to the next closest market in (dare I say it?) New Orleans?
xxx
Alisa