NICE CLUB, WEIRD LAYOUT

It was three different clubs on three nights for me during a first-time business trip to Pittsburgh. Club #3 was Cheerleaders, which I visited on a Tuesday night when lap dances were two-for-one until midnight. Rolled up about 9:30 and asked the valet about parking options. He said I could pay $8.00 for valet, $8.00 to self-park in the lot across the street, or try to find free parking on Penn street a block away. I didn't like the looks of the neighborhood that much, so I let the valet park my car. The cover was $7.00, and a bottle of Fiji water was $4.00 at the bar.

This is a large-ish, upscale club with room for lots of patrons around three stages. I found the whole layout really odd and sort of hard to figure out for a while, in part because there are mirrors on a number of walls, but mostly because the stages and other seating areas are all irregularly shaped. Two of the stages are so far from patrons that tips are delivered as crumpled up dollar bills thrown at the girls. At the small middle stage, close-up tipping is possible, but only by the 10 or so people sitting in chairs at the stage. The girls dance one song on each of the three stages during their set, which means if you like the girl dancing, you have to get up and follow her to each stage to see her whole set. (At least it’s not like Baby Dolls in Dallas, where dancers rotate through seven stages!) Stage dances are topless only.

There were about 50 girls working (was told by one of them that there are sometimes 100 girls working on a weekend night), a good mix of black and white, all pretty, ranging from 7-9, but heavier on the 7's. There were lots of fake boobs (not my thing), but something for everyone except maybe BBW lovers. Every girl I talked to was pretty, friendly, and chatty.