An interesting little find.

A dancer friend is now working at this club and I decided to have a look and experience it. The building is actually a landmark, which housed a bar first opened in 1915 by Babe Ruth with his share of a winning World Series bonus, and tended to by his father, who would be murdered outside the bar in 1918. Fast-forward to today, the little joint at the corner is at the edge of the hotel and convention district, across Eutaw Street from the Bromo Seltzer tower. The occasional homeless person will be sleeping on the sidewalk nearby and assorted bums might be around. Inside, don't expect food because there is none. You can bring in takeout, and there are a few good seafood and sandwich places within a few blocks. You walk in through an old foyer (I understand from earlier reviews there is a cover charge after a certain time but at the time I arrived, about 9:30, I wasn't charged.) The first floor has a rectangular bar with a very low stage and pole in the middle. The outer walls contain tables and soft seating, and the DJ is in a cubbyhole somewhere. It looks to have been refurbished, and a coolly lighted spiral staircase (a curiously modern-looking touch in this otherwise venerable, aged atmosphere) leads to the second floor, which has its own, linear bar and a more "traditional" stage with pole. It contains some private rooms which look to be carved out of relatively small closets with bolt upright seating. The second floor gives more the appearance of a "modern" strip club, but was empty the night I was there. I understand from a couple of the gals i talked to that it fills up whenever conventioners are in town or baseball fans show up en masse after a game, and they run out of room downstairs to seat people. There is a third floor which apparently contains offices, dancer lockers, etc.

Dancers run the gamut from attractive, well-proportioned blondes (including my friend, who introduced me to at least one very cute spinner with tight body and long gorgeous hair), to gals with tattoos, piercings, and junk in the trunk. Several are very acrobatic; one brunette AA gal (tight and muscular) was hanging off the ceiling doing what appeared to be her best Spiderwoman impersonation. Several gals look to have been doing this for a long time, to say the least. There is a mix of Caucasian, AA, and Latino dancers, a few skinny gals and a few who seem to be eating their meat and potatoes, a couple with prodigious Kim Kardashian-butts. Similar to Fantasies (another club I've visited which is far more modern in layout), the stage is in the middle but there is usually enough room only for one dancer. It is a low stage, relatively small, so pole dancing ability is a must. Some gals do better than others in this regard. The gals then crawl around the bar for tips (as with Fantasies) although Spiderwoman would sometimes do an aerial move across one side of the bar.

Bar drinks are like $8 bucks for a mixed drink, not sure what beer or wine goes for.