Okay - 3rd time at bat... ;-) Thanks to Papi Chulo for the guidance.
Swung by Brad's in Southeast Indy to check it out post-Covid, and (basically) glad I did. Brad's sits by itself in a light industrial-type lot. Plenty of free/lighted asphalt-paved parking that felt safe. Cover $8, but there's a free-entry coupon you can print from their website. As you enter, there's a low-ceiling interior with a couple brick columns pretty much stuck in the middle. There's a long runway-type stage where the girls dance in three sections - first dance is farthest from the door and is generally clothed, second in the middle with likely top removal, and third is closest to the door with guaranteed top removal. Bar along the back wall to the right, with an elevated DJ booth along the center back wall. Pictures of the girls-past hang on the wall (nude, which is odd because it's a topless club), and a product display case across from the entry guy. Okay bathrooms, with no troll.
Food is actually good, with usual sports bar prices, plus free popcorn from one of those old-timey popcorn machines. Good pour on the gin & tonic <$10 w/tip. They run beer specials all the time, so good news for hops & barley crowd.
Papi's suggesions:
+ costs: parking (Free), cover-charge ($8), drinks ($7 mixed well drink); and most importantly dances and VIP (Topless LDs for $20 in a sectioned off area with leather couches. No dollar dances at the rail/table anymore... :-( $100 VIP communal VIP room (Large dimly lit room with leather couches around the perimeter) and $200 private rooms for VIPs - but cameras in all.
+ also important to describe the dancer-crew as a whole (ages, builds, ethnicities, % natural vs enhanced, attitude, etc) - Girls were younger "college" type, slender, and mostly white with a smattering of ethnicities. Tats are limited, and 70/30% natural breasts vs enhanced. The girls tend to have a friendly Midwestern vibe - not hardened and pushy, and will sit and talk.
+ also important to describe the typical dance and VIP mileage (two way contact?; extras? topless or nude dances; etc) - I only did the $20 LDs, but here's a rundown:
- $20 LD is topless with full upper body roaming, knee stick-shifting, and whatever gropes/probing a PL can muster 'round the g-string. Management is not watching all that closely, but the girls generally won't budge the g-string. Songs played are real length, and mostly rock & roll, country, with some Hip Hop/R&B. Thankfully, Rap is kept to a minimum.
- $100 30min communal VIP is more of the same, but more time obviously. It's nice the girl can lie around on you more, and the whole thing feels less hurried. Considering 5 songs at $20/3mins each - $100, the same price for 30mins is not bad.
- $200 30min VIP is ostensibly private, but the girls still don't remove their bottoms, but are pretty skilled at obscuring the camera with their bodies. Once in the past I got a surreptitious handy, but normally, it's tough to get the full VIP experience.
I miss the old days at Brad's, but at least there's something still going on. Gone, unfortunately, are the stage chairs and light grind/boobs-in-the-face while rail tipping. Girls still circulate, and the $20 LD room was as good as always. Some girls, as before, wore supposedly state-mandated bandaids on the nips, but there were more than not without. I always wait for the stage dance to verify bandaid-free, before committing to LDs.
I got a couple $20 LDs from a blond, naturally-breasted sweetie. Oddly, mask on while waiting for the next full song, but mask off during the dance. She was sensuous, with breath in the ear, sweet glances (not distracted), full upper roaming, knee stick shifting, and light cowgirl grinding. No hand stick shifting, but she didn't mind when I asked to reposition Mr Happy for a better between-her-cheeks grind.
Brad's is still one of the three best clubs in Indy, IMHO. The other is Dancer's Show Club and Club Rio both out by the airport.
Papi - How'd I do?... ;-)
