sinclair's Review

I went to The Pony at 22:00 on a Saturday night. The parking lot was tight for larger vehicles, and low income housing is visible on the other side of the fence. There was a $20 cover charge after 18:00. The club does not have a liquor license, which means dancers are able to get fully nude. Only soda, water, and energy drinks are sold inside. I paid $5 for a 16.9 ounce bottle of Dr. Pepper. Since they give you a wristband when you enter, it is possible to go out to the parking lot and drink in your vehicle. The ATM has a maximum withdrawal of $800 and said it charged a $7 fee per transaction. A later review of my bank statement showed it actually charged a $24 fee on a $200 withdrawal. The interior features a two-pole island stage that is about one foot off of the ground. There appeared to be no stage contact. As a result, almost nobody tipped the stage here. This club doesn’t get going until late. Some of the dancers didn’t even arrive until almost 01:00. The Pony seems to be the rendezvous after the bars close down at 03:00 in Evansville. The Pony stays open until 05:00 on Friday and Saturday nights.

I counted about thirty dancers working on Saturday night. There was a good variety of ethnicities and body types, but no top models. The high end was 7’s and 7.5’s. The Pony definitely had its share of heavy dancers; twenty years ago, you would never have seen Size 12-16 women in this occupation. Early in the evening, there was one dancer on stage at a time with gaps where the stage was empty. As the party got crackin’ later in the night, two dancers were performing on stage on every song. Songs seemed to be clipped to three minutes. A television monitor shows the names of the dancers and their queue to go up on stage.

–Sinclair Dancer Sheet–