Sharks on Monday before Thanksgiving opened...

Sharks on Monday before Thanksgiving opened at 6 PM and performances started at 7. Happy hour is 6-9. I think that means drinks were half price. Since I don’t know the regular price, that’s hard to gauge. There is an L shaped bar with a short, runway type stage perpendicular to the bottom leg and separated by about 8 feet. There were four or so seats on each side of the runway which were practically unoccupied while I was there. There is a cleared space “walkway” around the runway, leading to the dressing room on one side and the rest rooms and VIP area on the other. Outside this there are six or eight round, high pedestal tables on each side of the stage.

It’s a topless bar, where the dancers do two sets, most getting their top off sometime during the performance. There was quite an eclectic mix of mostly young women, ranging from a few thin enough to read a newspaper through to a couple of larger, heavily buxom types who did not do stage numbers, but who were apparently available for VIP sessions. Of those I saw very few while I was there (until 9 PM). There was one Asian dancer who hustled me outrageously from the drop of the green flag, so to speak, and to whom I finally succumbed. The lap was kind of flaccid and the song seemed shortened. I bought several other girls drinks and chatted them up, but after completing their dance sets, they took up with younger men. I don’t know what obtained later in the evening of course, but I finally gave up since they seemed more interested in drinking and partying than scoring VIP sessions. Maybe I was too early -- or too old...

There were several fine looking young women there, and the stage performances were all you could legitimately ask for in a topless only club. You have to go back to the old Kit Kat in Inglewood in the ‘70s to find the dancers flashing to the seats on the back side of the stage.