Silhouettes (formerly Zebra / Cheaters)
[QUOTE=GoSailor41;6002598]That is a shame. Cheaters / Zebra was my go to place back in the day. Had some of my best times at a club there. I wonder why it's taking so long to get back to normal?[/QUOTE]Like others, I used to like WZ. I wasn't there in the Cheaters era but I got the impression that WZ was pretty much a new name but the same model. I once had a conversation with a WZ bouncer who called himself "the white wolf" and he told me that WZ and Cheaters were the same and that he had worked there for a long time. When they shut down, I read some things that they (the city?) didn't want it to be like it used to be. The Wonderland people bought it and their idea was to make it more of a nightclub with some dancers.
I stopped in to Silhouettes once in an afternoon. There was one dancer and the place was empty. We chatted at the bar for a few minutes. What I learned is that the "private dance room" is monitored with cameras which makes me think that they are trying to make sure there are no "extras" going on. The bartender jumped into the conversation and she had some video on her phone of some of the evening activity there. What I saw was a lot of enthusiastic stage dancing with blinged-out guys who looked like extras in rap videos making it rain.
Day shift to Night Shift Transition is a bad time to go to the clubs
[QUOTE=Bostonsailor;6000255]To my surprise, Foxy Lady opened at 6 pm tonight. Great heading that way. Get there at about 630 pay a $10 cover, get drinks and discover there is not 1 dancer in the place. 4 doormen 1 bartender. Waiting patiently for girls to arrive. My cousin question is why would a gentleman's club open with no entertainment, why charge the cover when there is no entertainment? Bad planning. If girls want to work the big money weekends they should be required to work the slow days.[/QUOTE]I've had a similar experience at CD. I would sometimes get out of work early and get there around 3:30 or 4:00 and there's no cover and a good number of dancers. But a few times I've gotten there around 6:00 and paid a cover and had no dancers there (and I've left). So it seems that if the nighttime dancers are supposed to get there by 7 and often don't get there (or come out of the back) until 7:30 or 8:00 that the cover charge should start at that time.