Sunday? Should have been called Slim-day

Arrive 515 on Sunday. No cover charge since it’s before 7

The Purple Orchid is located in an industrial area in Philadelphia at the corner of 61st and Passyunk. It shares a parking lot with a pool hall and another adult entertainment establishment. The potholes in the parking lot are terrible, please be careful. The building itself is a large purplish cube right at the intersection of 61st and Passyunk Avenue.

Layout: When you enter, there is a desk area at the left-hand side, where the cover charge($5) is collected during the evening (after 7:00) , and where couch dances are paid for (after the fact). Just past the cover charge desk is a beaded curtain to the $20 common lap dance area. Several couches, none of them in the best of repair. Dancers usually take you to the one further away from the beads. On your right as you enter are 2 doors, each of which is a $30 private couch dance area. Those rooms are small, 4'x5', and feature a small loveseat facing a large mirror. There is a diamond shaped window towards the top of each door, but dancers can and do cover it from the inside by hanging their bag there. The main room itself is a rectangle you enter on one of the narrow sides, the bar is a rectangle in the center of the room, with a raised stage area (2 steps up) within the bar. There are 2 (ceiling height, low) poles in the stage area, 1 in each of the long sides of the rectangles, Bathrooms are on the left-hand wall is the entrance to the dressing room, and the DJ booth is in the far left corner as you walk in. The sides of the main room are mostly mirrored, and there are elevated TV's on each wall, usually playing sports of some kind. There are also a few video poker type machines over by the DJ booth. I've seen dancers playing them occasionally, never customers, so I don’t know how any payouts are done.