Deja Vu Services, Inc., is an American company that operates nearly 200
strip clubs in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Canada, and Mexico.[1]
Le Strip was a
strip club in
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.[10] Whilst the club is now closed, former dancers; escorts;
bouncers; and promoters of the club, an 18-year-old or older establishment, and the last legal all-ages one of its kind, have expressed an interest within local media of a historical retrospective provided by the
City of Toronto concerning the history of licensing of adult clubs and dancers in the city.
Le Crazy Horse Saloon or Le Crazy Horse de Paris is a
Parisiancabaret known for its stage shows performed by nude female dancers and for the diverse range of magic and variety 'turns' between each nude show and the next. Its owners have helped to create related cabaret and
burlesque shows in other cities.[13] Unrelated businesses have used the phrase "Crazy Horse" in their names.
The
Raymond Revuebar (1958–2004) was a theatre and
strip club at 11
Walker's Court (now the location of
The Box Soho nightclub), in the centre of London's
Soho district. For many years, it was the only venue in London that offered full-frontal, on-stage nudity of the sort commonly seen in other cities in Europe and North America.[15] Its huge brightly lit sign declaring it to be the "World Centre of Erotic Entertainment" made the Revuebar a local landmark.
The
Windmill Theatre in
Great Windmill Street,
London, was a
variety and revue
theatre best known for its nude tableaux vivants, which began in 1932 and lasted until its reversion to a cinema in 1964. Many prominent British comedians of the post-war years started their careers at the theatre.
United States
The
Admiral Theatre in
Chicago,
Illinois opened in 1927 as a
vaudeville house. it was designed by Gallup and Joy and acquired by the
Balaban and Katz circuit. The Admiral closed sometime in the late 1950s, and remained shuttered for many years until opening in 1969 as an all-cartoon venue. Unable to draw the crowds necessary to remain open, the Admiral closed again. In the early 1970s, the Admiral was opened as an adult movie house. After receiving a facelift in the 1980s, the Admiral continues to thrive as an adult venue and
strip club. While the interior has been drastically altered, the facade is in remarkably good shape.
Cheetah's Topless Club is a "
gentleman's club" or topless bar located in
San Diego, and
Las Vegas, best known for being featured in the 1995 movie Showgirls, and also for having been owned by Mike Galardi, a nightclub owner who was investigated by the
FBI with a controversial invocation of the
Patriot Act. The Cheetah's club in San Diego is a full nude club where no alcohol is served. It has achieved notoriety for having been frequented by some of the September 11 hijackers.
The
Clermont Lounge is
Atlanta's first and longest continually operating
strip club, opened in 1965 and boasts a completely female ownership. Located in the basement of the Clermont Motor Hotel at 789 Ponce De Leon Avenue, in the
Poncey-Highland neighborhood, the dive bar[17] has survived multiple attempts at being closed by the Atlanta city government, and has established a nationwide reputation for its
kitschy atmosphere and unusual dancers.[citation needed] The Clermont has been featured on an episode of Insomniac with Dave Attell. Celebrities known to have visited the Clermont when in Atlanta include
Anthony Bourdain,
Colin Firth,
Marilyn Manson,
Cole Sprouse,
Ashton Kutcher,
Kid Rock,
Steven Yeun,
Skinny Lister,
Lady Gaga, Eric Roberts,
Ming Chen, Jason Zimmerman and the Guys Weekend as well as
David Cross and
Bombay Bicycle Club. Visitors to the Clermont usually alternate between a few handfuls of regulars and large numbers of college students, newcomers to town, and tourists.
Crazy Horse Too is a closed
strip club located at 2476 Industrial Road in
Las Vegas,
Nevada, a few blocks west of the
Las Vegas Strip. The club was known as Billy Jo's during the 1970s. In 1978, the club was purchased by
Mob member Tony Albanese and renamed Billy Jo's Crazy Horse Too, after the Crazy Horse Saloon, another Las Vegas strip club owned by Albanese. In 1984, Rick Rizzolo took over operations of the club when it was purchased by his father, Bart Rizzolo. Rick Rizzolo was a majority owner by 1986.
The 1891
Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank building in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, is a
Beaux-Arts style building that formerly served as the headquarters of Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank. The building is now home to The Downtown Cabaret, a
strip club. Architecture critic
Larry Millett writes, "If you step inside for a view of the, ahem, scenery, you'll discover a glass dome that once illuminated a 'ladies banking lobby' but is now the scene of activities not everyone would consider ladylike."[20]
The
Gaiety Theatre was a gay male burlesque theater in
Times Square,
New York City, for almost 30 years until it closed on March 17, 2005. The name on the awning over the entrance was Gaiety Theatre, but it was also called the Gaiety Male Burlesque or the Gaiety Male Theatre in advertisements. It was located at 201 W 46th Street, New York, NY 10036, on the second floor of the building that also housed what was the last
Howard Johnson's restaurant in New York City. The Gaiety opened in late 1975 and closed in 2005 and was owned by Denise Rozis, run by both her and her younger sister, Evridiki Rozis.
The Gold Club was a strip club in
Midtown Atlanta that operated until 2001, the same year the owner admitting racketeering charges.
The Lusty Lady is a pair of defunct
peep show establishments, one in downtown
Seattle and one in the
North Beach district of San Francisco. The Lusty Lady was made famous by the
labor activism of its San Francisco workers and the publication of several books about working there.
The
Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre was a
strip club at 895 O'Farrell Street near
San Francisco's
Tenderloin neighborhood. Having opened as an
X-rated movie theater by
Jim and Artie Mitchell on July 4, 1969, the O'Farrell was one of America's most notorious adult-entertainment establishments. By 1980, the nightspot had popularized close-contact
lap dancing, which would become the norm in strip clubs nationwide.[28] Journalist
Hunter S. Thompson, a longtime friend of the Mitchells and frequent visitor at the club, went there frequently during the summer of 1985[29] as part of his research for a possible book on pornography. Thompson called the O'Farrell "the
Carnegie Hall of public sex in America" and Playboy magazine praised it as "the place to go in San Francisco!"
RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (previously Rick's Cabaret International, Inc.), through its subsidiaries, operates
strip clubs,
nightclubs, sports bars/restaurants, and a media and convention company that serves the adult club industry. RCI went public with an IPO in 1995 is listed on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol RICK.
Scores is a
strip club in New York City. In its early years, it was known for its celebrity clientele, which included
Howard Stern,
Russell Crowe and
Jason Giambi. At its peak, it operated in two locations in
Manhattan and licensed its name to strip clubs in five other cities. The club has been beset by legal problems over the years, which have included ties to
organized crime, tax evasion by its top executives, and club-sanctioned
prostitution.[30][31]
Ziegfeld's/Secrets was a dual-themed nightclub in
Washington, D.C., with Ziegfeld's featuring
drag queens, and Secrets featuring
strippers. The entertainment venue first opened in 1980, was forced to close in 2006, then reopened in a new location in 2009. The second location was closed permanently in 2020.[33]
Jiggles, sometimes called Jiggles Strip Club,[34] was a
strip club in
Tualatin, Oregon, in the United States. In March 2014, Jiggles received media attention when Jake Stoneking, a 19 year old diagnosed with
medulloblastoma, included a visit to the club on his list of activities to complete before his death. The club shut down and the building in which it was housed was demolished later that year.
Mary's Club is the oldest
strip club in
Portland, Oregon, and among the oldest in the United States. In 1954, Roy Keller bought the business from Mary Duerst Hemming, who owned and operated Mary's as a piano bar beginning in the 1930s. Keller initially hired
go-go dancers as entertainment during the piano player's breaks, later hiring them full-time because of their popularity. Topless dancers wearing
pasties were introduced in 1955. The club also featured comics, musicians, singers and other acts. All-nude dancing began in 1985, after a judicial ruling against City of Portland ordinances banning it in venues which served alcohol.
Three Sisters Tavern, sometimes abridged as Three Sisters and nicknamed "Six Tits",[36] was a
gay bar and
strip club in
Portland, Oregon, United States. The bar was founded in 1964 and began catering to Portland's gay community in 1997 following the deaths of the original owners. The business evolved into a strip club featuring an all-male revue. Also frequented by women, sometimes for
bachelorette parties, Three Sisters was considered a hub of Portland's nightlife before closing in 2004.
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^Benaroia, Iris. Rail Tale; Waitressing at the notorious strip club is an education in crass costumes and celebrity carousing National Post. Don Mills, Ont.: Feb 9, 2008. pg. TO.14
^Acker, Lizzy (June 10, 2015).
"Stag: Bar Review". Willamette Week. Portland, Oregon: City of Roses Newspapers.
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