Near full capacity at the Venue

I strolled in to The Venue on a recent Friday late afternoon around 5:30 pm, I came from Club 205 (across the street). 205 was busy but no girls my type so off to Venue. At Venue they do a pat down, and if I remember correctly, they scanned my ID. No cover. I think on Friday and Saturday nights starting sometime after 9 there’s a cover of 5 or 10 bucks.

Venue is a dive club feel. Dress code at the dive clubs are lot more loose than the upscale clubs. I walked in with basketball shorts, at Club Rouge for example they wouldn’t let me in with basketball shorts. It was pretty busy on this afternoon. What I’ve noticed about the dive clubs in Portland is usually the busiest time is not a Friday night or Saturday night like most clubs, the busiest time is happy hour 5 to 6:30 when people are getting off on work. Quite a few customers here on this day. The customers here are more of the blue collar type. Venue is known for the biker gang customer base, I’ve generally only seen them at night when I’ve been to Venue in the past.

Venue is a mid-sized club, in the back of the club are some lottery machines, all the lottery machines were taken on this day. There are 2 stages, both stages were in use on this day, 2 song sets. Music was a mix of rock and hip hop. Drink prices were normal, I did find that club 205 drinks were considerably cheaper than Venue’s drinks at happy hour time.