44/44

My first review for TUSCL. I will be reviewing every strip club in Portland Oregon. All forty-four of them. I am starting from the worst club in the city and eventually making my way to the best.

Prior to Rock Hard opening in early 2016, it was Pallas Club. I had been to Pallas Club on three or four occasions and considered that club to be in the bottom five worst clubs in the city. I couldn't imagine someone would manage to make Pallas Club worse, but the owners of Rock Hard did just that. It isn't entirely their fault though. Some of the blame for them being the worst has to go to 505 Club in Gresham. If they hadn't permanently shut down earlier this year, Rock Hard would only be the second worst club in Portland.

I admit, I've only been to Rock Hard one time. I went there on a Friday night in the summer of 2016. I went there particularly on that night because I had received a text from a friend saying she was trying this club out later that night. So what better time to go for the first time, right? I picked my girlfriend up from where she was dancing and we went about 9:30pm to Rock Hard. Immediately upon walking into the club the changes that they made to it were apparent. There was absolutely zero indication that we had just walked into a strip club. The entire stage was gone. There were no dancers to be found anywhere. There was some guy singing terrible karaoke on stage. There was no one paying attention to him. Two aged metalheads were growing roots at the bar. The staff outnumbered the patrons.