A good time, within its limitations

American Bush is maybe ten minutes south of downtown Salt Lake City. There's a partially covered parking area out front, without enough spaces for a full club. I'm not sure where else one would park. I arrived via ride share so it didn't affect me one way or the other. Inside I was charged $7 for entry. She didn't check my ID and there was no bouncer doing so either.

Inside the club was very dark, one of the darkest I've visited. There's a mid-sized stage with a pole backed by a mirror and a few rows of seats set up facing it, with a few tables among them. Next to the seating area is a small bar. They don't serve any alcohol. My water was only $2. I bought a dancer a drink later in the evening. Her fancier water (Voss instead of just a random bulk bottle) was $6. I don't know if the higher price was because it was fancy water or it was a dancer drink. The bartender was cute and friendly.The club has a couple of other large spaces with pool tables, maybe taking up more total space than the "main" part of the club. They had a basketball game on a big screen near the bar when I arrived, but it was turned off before long and there weren't other obvious sets. I didn't get the sense this would be a place to watch a game with a boob-filled atmosphere, but I could imagine hanging out and playing pool while occasionally checking out the stage if that was your thing. The pool table areas were better lit than the stage section.

The stage show was decent, but not spectacular. Most dancers ignored the pole, though a few made use of it and at least one was quite talented. While there wasn't a ton of pole dancing, the stage dancing was entertaining and none of the dancers just stood there and swayed. Tippers at the stage generally got attention, which was usually just the dancer performing right down in front of them, but occasionally included legs on the shoulders or boobs on the head. Each dancer was on stage for two songs, taking some clothes off for the second one. That generally involved removing their bikini/lingerie bottoms to reveal a smaller thong (and in a couple of cases a much smaller g-string), and their top to reveal pasties. I thought the pasties would bother me more than they did. I'm not fan. They seem ridiculous - the whole breast is ok, but somehow the nipple is the devil's doorbell or something. But many of the dancers had near-skin-color pasties which wrapped around/over their nipple. From a mild distance they were hardly noticeable.